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Coherence and Cohesion for the Assessment of Text Readability

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Todirascu, Amalia [Université de Strasbourg] François, Thomas [UCL] Gala, Nuria [Aix-Marseille Université] Fairon, Cédrick [UCL] Ligozat, Anne-Laure [Limsi-CNRS] Bernhard, Delphine [Université de Strasbourg]

Text readability depends on a variety of variables. While lexico-semantic and syntactic factors have been widely used in the literature, more high-level discursive and cognitive properties such as cohesion and coherence have received little attention. This paper assesses the efficiency of 41 measures of text cohesion and text coherence as predictors of text readability. We compare results manually obtained on two corpora including texts with different difficulty levels and show that some cohesive features are indeed useful predictors.

Document type Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) – Présentation orale avec comité de sélection
Publication date 2013
Language Anglais
Conference "10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2013)", Marseille (du 15/10/2013 au 17/10/2013)
Peer reviewed yes
Host document Sharp, B. et Zock, M. ; "Proceedings of 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2013)"- p. 11-19
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSH/ILC/PLIN - Pôle de recherche en linguistique
UCL - SSH/TALN - Centre de traitement automatique du langage
UCL - SSH/ILC - Institut Langage et Communication
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Bibliographic reference Todirascu, Amalia ; François, Thomas ; Gala, Nuria ; Fairon, Cédrick ; Ligozat, Anne-Laure ; et. al. Coherence and Cohesion for the Assessment of Text Readability.10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2013) (Marseille, du 15/10/2013 au 17/10/2013). In: Sharp, B. et Zock, M., Proceedings of 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2013), 2013, p. 11-19
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/156000