This study investigates how cohesion manifests in readers’ thought processes while reading texts when they are instructed to engage in self-explanation, a strategy associated with deeper, more successful comprehension. In Study 1, college students (n = 21) were instructed to either paraphrase or self-explain science texts. Paraphrasing was characterized by greater cohesion in terms of lexical o...

Being expert in establishing cohesion and coherence in writing is not an easy task. The EFL learners are to pass through very long, uneven paths such as précis exercise to achieve this skill. The present study was launched to explore the effect of précis writing on the creation of a compact text. To this end, a true-experimental method of research with the pretest-posttest control design was em...

An important topic in writing research has been the use of cohesive features. Much of this research has focused on local and text cohesion. The few studies that have studied global cohesion have been restricted to first language writing. This study investigates the development of local, global, and text cohesion in the writing of 57 s language (L2) university students and examines the effects o...

Lexical cohesion is an important device for signalling text organisation. In this paper, we investigate to what extent idiomatic expressions participate in the cohesive structure of a text. We look at the problem both from an empirical and a computational perspective. Our results show that both literal and nonliteral expressions exhibit cohesion with their context, though the latter tend to do ...

This paper investigates factors that can be used in discourse analysis, specifically, cohesive devices. The paper shows that cohesive devices such as cue phrases can provide information about the linkages inside a text. We propose three types of cue phrases (the ordinary cue phrases, noun-phrase cues, and verb-phrase cues). An algorithm to compute rhetorical relations between two elementary dis...

This paper describes a new method for computing lexical chains. These are sequences of semantically related words that reflect a text’s cohesive structure. In contrast to previous methods, we are able to select chains based on their cohesive strength. This is achieved by analyzing the connectivity in graphs representing the lexical chains. We show that the generated chains significantly improve...

Th=s report describes Paul, a computer text generation system desig~ed LO create cohesive text through the use o| lexlcal substitutions. Specihcally, Ihas system is designed Io determmistically choose between provluminahzat0on, superordinate suhstntut0on, and dehmte noun phrase reiterabon. The system identities a strength el antecedence recovery for each of the lex~cal subshtutions, and matches...

This paper presents a text summarization system for the Spanish language that combines classic techniques in automatic summarization with less frequent ones, like anaphora resolution and cohesive markers detection in order to fight the lack of coherence intrinsic to automatic text excerpts.

In this study, two advanced computational text analysis tools were used to catalogue lexical and cohesive features of deceptive language and language accordance (i.e., agreement/disagreement on topic of conversation) in a corpus of dyadic conversations. The study specifically focused on how the variable of accordance conditions the process of deception in terms of lexical and cohesive features....