Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse With Coh-metrix (Hardcover)

Danielle S. Mcnamara

ISBN 10: 0521192927 / ISBN 13: 9780521192927

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014

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Hardcover. Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix describes this computational tool, as well as the wide range of language and discourse measures it provides. Part I of the book focuses on the theoretical perspectives that led to the development of Coh-Metrix, its measures, and empirical work that has been conducted using this approach. Part II shifts to the practical arena, describing how to use Coh-Metrix and how to analyze, interpret, and describe results. Coh-Metrix opens the door to a new paradigm of research that coordinates studies of language, corpus analysis, computational linguistics, education, and cognitive science. This tool empowers anyone with an interest in text to pursue a wide array of previously unanswerable research questions. Coh-Metrix is arguably the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment tool currently available. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix describes this computational tool as well as the wide range of language and discourse measures it provides. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse With Coh-metrix (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521192927
• ISBN 13: 9780521192927
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix describes this computational tool, as well as the wide range of language and discourse measures it provides. Section I of the book focuses on the theoretical perspectives that led to the development of Coh-Metrix, its measures, and empirical work that has been conducted using this approach. Section II shifts to the practical arena, describing how to use Coh-Metrix and how to analyze, interpret, and describe results. Coh-Metrix opens the door to a new paradigm of research that coordinates studies of language, corpus analysis, computational linguistics, education, and cognitive science. This tool empowers anyone with an interest in text to pursue a wide array of previously unanswerable research questions.

About the Authors

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

Arthur C. Graesser is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis and is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.

Philip McCarthy is an Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis and a member of the Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Zhiqiang Cai is a research assistant professor in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis.