We introduce possibilities of automatic evaluation of surface text coherence (cohesion) in texts written by learners of Czech during certified exams for non-native speakers. On the basis of a corpus analysis, we focus on finding and describing relevant distinctive features for automatic detection of A1–C1 levels (established by CEFR – the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) in...

The automatic association of illustrative photos to paragraphs of text is a challenging cross-media retrieval problem with many practical applications. In this paper we propose novel methods to associate photos to textual documents. The proposed methods are based on the recognition and disambiguation of location names in the texts, using them to query Flickr for candidate photos. The best photo...

Coh-Metrix is a linguistic tool used by many researchers to quickly measure cohesion and coherence of text. Because it is a free, easy to use, and quite efficient linguistic tool, it is widely used in academic research and analysis. The results of many of these studies are dependent on the accuracy of the Coh-Metrix tool. I will be testing the accuracy of CohMetrix, focusing on its analysis of ...

Extractive summaries produced from multiple source documents suffer from an array of problems with respect to text cohesion. In this preliminary study, we seek to understand what problems occur in such summaries and how often. We present an analysis of a small corpus of manually revised summaries and discuss the feasibility of making such repairs automatically. Additionally, we present a taxono...

This paper presents an outline of a classification of metaphor use in text that can aid the interpretation of data obtained from corpora. The classification is exemplified on examples from a developing corpus of both public and academic discourse on educational change. The paper claims that it is necessary to distinguish between metaphor as an organizing principle of the conceptual system and i...

We present a system for the linguistic exploration and analysis of lexical cohesion in English texts. Using an electronic thesaurus-like resource, Princeton WordNet, and the Brown Corpus of English, we have implemented a process of annotating text with lexical chains and a graphical user interface for inspection of the annotated text. We describe the system and report on some sample linguistic ...

This paper aims to introduce students to a new problem-solving method in reading comprehension through analyzing the feasibility of using the lexical cohesion theory based on Systemic Functional Linguistics. For this purpose, an empirical research was carried out to some Chinese college students. Research shows that the lexical cohesion theory can help improve students’ reading speed and accura...

This study aims to understand certain linguistic and semantic resources for the text construction, namely the constructs of cohesion, coherence. The analysis of cohesive ties was conducted on the writing samples of 40 subjects (20 most coherent and 20 least coherent) Iranian undergraduates of English. This prompted us to identify the dominant types of cohesive devices used in most coherent writ...

We present a study about automated discourse analysis of oral narrative language in adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). The basis of this evaluation is an existing dataset of fictional narrations of individuals with ASD and two matched comparison groups. We use three robust measures for quantifying different aspects of text cohesion on this corpus. These measures and several comb...