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Cohesion (McNamara, Louwerse, McCarthy, & Graesser (2010)
Capturing…
Cohesion
McNamara, Louwerse, McCarthy, & Graesser (2010)
Capturing Linguistic Features of Cohesion
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LSA can distinguish between
high and low cohesive texts (p. 307)
- Sentence to Sentence
- Sentence to paragraph
- Sentence to text
- Sentence to all sentences
- Causal connectives
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Global noun overlap can distinguish
between texts high and low in cohesion
Similar values for argument and stem overlap Noun overlap: Word to word overlap (mother and motherArgument overap: mother - mothersStem overlap: giver - give
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McNamara, Crossley, & Rosceo (2013)
Natural language processing in an intelligent
writing strategy tutoring system
They extended Writing-Pal with new
measures as surface measures
do not have a storng effect on writing
quality (see Graham)
Lexical diversity, syntactic complexity
and word frequency could account
for 6% of essay scores. #
Number of words, word frequency
LSA giveN/new, noun hypernymy,
word imagibality, content word
overlap cound account for 38% of
variance in essay scores
Content word overlap was negatively
related to essay quality # #
They found that LSA given/new has a positive
impact on overall essay quality / contrary to
other studies
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Crossley & McNamara (2010)
Cohesion, Coherence, and Expert Evaluations
of Writing Proficiency
Cohesive devices such as Coh-Metrix
do not contribute to the assessment of
overall coherence of an essay
"The absence of cohesive devices
was associated with a more
coherent mental representation
of the text" (p. 988)
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Crossley, Kyle, & McNamara (2016)
The tool for automatic analysis of
text cohesion (TAACO)
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Rosceo & McNamara (2013)
Writing Pal: Feasability of an Intelligent Writing Strategy Tutor in the High School Classroom
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Crossley, Dascalu, Trausan-Matu, Allen, & McNamara (2016)
Document Cohesion Flow Striving Towards Coherence
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Graesser, McNamara, Louwerse, & Cai (2004)
Coh-Metrix: Analysis of text on cohesion and language
Crossley, Kyle, & McNamra (2016)
The tool for the automatic analysis of text cohesion
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