We present a computational notion of Lexical Tightness that measures global cohesion of content words in a text. Lexical tightness represents the degree to which a text tends to use words that are highly inter-associated in the language. We demonstrate the utility of this measure for estimating text complexity as measured by US school grade level designations of texts. Lexical tightness strongl...

some literary texts seem being created on the threshold of two different movements, since they reflect the features of them both. some literary features are also common in two different literary movements and they can even be seen in the works belong to two different eras. the novel “asfār-e-kātebān” (books of scribers) is among the works which have lots of techniques and measures which are the...

The research objective is to improve reading comprehension skills through an extensive program of literary texts. It used a mixed method. Research participants are 5th-semester students who receive (2) courses in the 2020-2021 academic year at Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika Jakarta as many 70 students. There two data this study, namely 1) qualitative taken using questionnaire. Qualitative ...