Danielle S McNamara, Arthur C Graesser, Philip M McCarthy, Zhiqiang Cai

Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes Coh-Metrix, a powerful computational tool that provides a wide range of language and discourse measures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 289
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780521137294
• ISBN-10: 0521137292
• Artikelnr.: 40512078

Autorenporträt

Danielle S. McNamara is a professor in the Psychology Department and Senior Scientist in the Learning Sciences Institute at Arizona State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Coh-Metrix: Theoretical, Technological, and Empirical Foundations: 1. What is text and why analyze it?
2. The importance of text cohesion
3. The science and technology that led to Coh-Metrix
4. Coh-Metrix measures
5. Coh-Metrix measures of text readability and easability
6. Using Coh-Metrix measures: studies of cohesion in text and writing
Part II. A Beginner's Guide to Writing Coh-Metrix Research: 7. The strategy: moves, frozen expressions, and the elevator pitch
8. The introduction
9. The corpus
10. The tool
11. The results
12. The discussion
Concluding remarks.