This research is an investigation of the relationship between the emotional intelligence of a group of Iranian English language learners and the coherence of the essays they produced. A 40-item TOEFL-type test of English proficiency including items on grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension with the Cronbach’s alpha reliability of .742, was planned to identify the proficient candidates who c...

In this paper, we describe a holistic annotation scheme for coherence quality that requires little expertise on the part of the human annotator; we also present computational systems for evaluating coherence quality in essays. A formidable challenge to reliability when annotating discourse coherence comes from differences among annotators in the inferences that they draw when reading an essay. ...

This study investigates the importance of human evaluations of coherence in predicting human judgments of holistic essay quality. Of secondary interest is the potential for computational indices of cohesion and coherence to model human judgments of coherence. The results indicate that human judgments of coherence are the most predictive features of holistic essay scores and that computational i...

Objective: Many studies have suggested that there is a relationship between coherence and cognitive processes. This study aims at investigating this hypothesis through assessing the relationship between cognitive variables and coherence in the discourse of two groups of Persian-speaking younger and older adults. Methods: In order to evaluate our participants' cognitive capabilities, we recrui...

We believe that future large-scale multicore systems will require disciplined parallel programming practices, including data-race-freedom, deterministic-by-default semantics, and structured, explicit parallel control and side-effects. We argue that this software evolution presents far-reaching opportunities for parallel hardware design to greatly improve complexity, power-efficiency, and perfor...