Different approaches examine discourse markers: descriptive and formal approaches (quantitative or qualitative, synchronic or diachronic) connectives and discourse markers. This article presents a study case of discourse markers used in unacceptable way from a grammatical and cohesion point of view in a learning environment. Two questions will be discussed: Are these type of use produce reading...

The NWO-programme Modelling textual organisation: coherence and cohesion studies the organisation of text into structural units by means of coherence (discourse relations between clausal and larger textual units) and cohesion (lexico-semantic relations between words in textual units). The programme is organised around two related PhD-projects, focussing on coherence and cohesion, respectively. ...

Transcript-based topic segmentation of TV programs faces several difficulties arising from transcription errors, from the presence of potentially short segments and from the limited number of word repetitions to enforce lexical cohesion, i.e., lexical relations that exist within a text to provide a certain unity. To overcome these problems, we extend a probabilistic measure of lexical cohesion ...

Abstract This study focused mainly on the shifts of the grammatical cohesion in texts translated from English into Persian. It aimed to identify the grammatical cohesive devices (GCDs) in ST and TT separately, based on Halliday and Hassn's Model (1976), determine the number of occurrences of GCDs in two texts and finally, illustrate types of shifts of grammatical cohesion and strategies used in...

We have developed a cohesive extraction based single document summarizer (COHSUM) based on coreference links in a document. The sentences providing the most references to other sentences and that other sentences are referring to, are considered the most important and are therefore extracted. Additionally, before evaluations of summary quality, a corpus analysis was performed on the original doc...

In text, lexical cohesion is the result of chains of related words that contribute to the continuity of lexical meaning. These lexical chains are a direct result of units of text being "about the same thing," and finding text structure involves finding units of text that are about the same thing. Hence, computing the chains is useful, since they will have a correspondence to the structure of th...

Text processing requires inferences for establishing coherence between successive sentences. In neuropsychological studies and brain imaging studies, these coherence-building processes have been ascribed to the right hemisphere. On the other hand, there is evidence for prefrontal brain damage causing non-aphasic language disorders, in which text level processes are impaired. In this study, we u...