Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix

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.