Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix
Cambridge University Press, 3/24/2014
EAN 9780521192927, ISBN10: 0521192927
Hardcover, 288 pages, 23.5 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix describes this computational tool, as well as the wide range of language and discourse measures it provides. Part I of the book focuses on the theoretical perspectives that led to the development of Coh-Metrix, its measures, and empirical work that has been conducted using this approach. Part II shifts to the practical arena, describing how to use Coh-Metrix and how to analyze, interpret, and describe results. Coh-Metrix opens the door to a new paradigm of research that coordinates studies of language, corpus analysis, computational linguistics, education, and cognitive science. This tool empowers anyone with an interest in text to pursue a wide array of previously unanswerable research questions.
Part I. Coh-Metrix
Theoretical, Technological, and Empirical Foundations
1. What is text and why analyze it?
2. The importance of text cohesion
3. The science and technology that led to Coh-Metrix
4. Coh-Metrix measures
5. Coh-Metrix measures of text readability and easability
6. Using Coh-Metrix measures
studies of cohesion in text and writing
Part II. A Beginner's Guide to Writing Coh-Metrix Research
7. The strategy
moves, frozen expressions, and the elevator pitch
8. The introduction
9. The corpus
10. The tool
11. The results
12. The discussion
Concluding remarks.