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Semantic Cohesion

Semantic Cohesion is a textual phenomenon in discourse analysis that belongs to the broader category of cohesion mechanisms, distinguished by its reliance on meaning-based connections—such as lexical repetition, synonymy, and semantic fields—to bind elements of a text into a unified and interpretable whole.

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Lexical cohesion computed by thesaural relations as an indicator of the structure of text

Jane Morris, Graeme Hirst · The COCOON platform (University of Paris) · 1991 · 948 citations

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The measurement of textual coherence with latent semantic analysis

Peter W. Foltz, Walter Kintsch, Thomas K. Landauer · Discourse Processes · 1998 · 757 citations

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Coh-Metrix

Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara, Jonna M. Kulikowich · Educational Researcher · 2011 · 612 citations

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The role of coherence and cohesion in text comprehension: an event-related fMRI study

Evelyn C. Ferstl, D. Yves von Cramon · Cognitive Brain Research · 2001 · 312 citations · Full text

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The tool for the automatic analysis of text cohesion (TAACO): Automatic assessment of local, global, and text cohesion

Scott A. Crossley, Kristopher Kyle, Danielle S. McNamara · Behavior Research Methods · 2015 · 293 citations · Full text

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  1. SA
    Scott A. Crossley

    Georgia State University, United States

    4 publications · 507 citations

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    Danielle S. McNamara

    Arizona State University, United States

    4 publications · 968 citations

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  3. KK
    Kristopher Kyle

    Georgia State University, United States

    3 publications · 494 citations

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  4. YM
    Yinglong Ma

    North China Electric Power University, China

    2 publications · 55 citations

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  5. BB
    Beata Beigman Klebanov

    Educational Testing Service, United States

    2 publications · 43 citations

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  1. Georgia State University

    Atlanta, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    559 citations

  2. University of Memphis

    Memphis, United States

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    1.6K citations

  3. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    86 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    999 citations

  5. North China Electric Power University

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    65 citations

  6. Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur

    Orsay, France

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    69 citations

  7. University of Salerno

    Fisciano, Italy

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    480 citations

  8. Institute of Software

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    155 citations

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  1. Discourse Processes

    DP · 3 publications · 930 citations

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  2. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

    Repository · 3 publications · 67 citations

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  3. Computers and the Humanities

    2 publications · 43 citations

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  4. Journal of Systems and Software

    JSS · 2 publications · 170 citations

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  5. College Composition and Communication

    CCC · 2 publications · 108 citations

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