%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:896217 %A Foltz, P. %A Kintsch, W. %A Landauer, T. %D 1998 %J Discourse Processes %K lsa text nlp coherence %N 2&3 %P 285--307 %T The measurement of textual coherence with latent semantic analysis %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/foltz98measurement.html %V 25 %X Latent Semantic Analysis is used as a technique for measuring the coherence of texts. By comparing the vectors for two adjoining segments of text in a highdimensional semantic space, the method provides a characterization of the degree of semantic relatedness between the segments. We illustrate the approach for predicting coherence through re-analyzing sets of texts from two studies that manipulated the coherence of texts and assessed readers' comprehension. The results indicate that the method ...

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