▪ Abstract The field of discourse processing has dissected many of the levels of
representation that are constructed when individuals read or listen to connected discourse …

Text simplification, defined narrowly, is the process of reducing the linguistic complexity of a
text, while still retaining the original information and meaning. More broadly, text …

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

As US K-12 classrooms move to incorporate 21st Century Skills, Common Core State
Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and Response to Intervention (RtI) …

Sentence Simplification (SS) aims to modify a sentence in order to make it easier to read
and understand. In order to do so, several rewriting transformations can be performed such …

In this study, a corpus of expert-graded essays, based on a standardized scoring rubric, is
computationally evaluated so as to distinguish the differences between those essays that …

Though there is an extensive literature on materials in language teaching, little if any of it
examines the relationship between materials such as textbooks and the totality of the …

This study addresses research gaps in predicting second language (L2) writing proficiency
using linguistic features. Key to this analysis is the inclusion of linguistic measures at the …

This study addresses the need in discourse psychology for computational techniques that
analyze text on multiple levels of cohesion and text difficulty. Discourse psychologists often …

The proposed multilevel framework of discourse comprehension includes the surface code,
the textbase, the situation model, the genre and rhetorical structure, and the pragmatic …