Re: Corpora: Lexical cohesion

Stephen Green (sjgreen@mpce.mq.edu.au)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:11:27 +1100 (EST)

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Jeremy.Ellman writes:
> > Does anyone know of computer programs for identifying cohesion, mainly
> > lexical cohesion?
>
> Dear Clara,
>
> I too am interested in Lexical Cohesion. I have a program that identifies
> cohesive relations in text using an external thesaurus. Various out of date
> information is available at http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0jel/
>
> Regards
>
> Jeremy Ellman

There also may be some interest in my thesis, which is at:

http://sjgreen.mpce.mq.edu.au/~sjgreen/Documents/sjgthesis.ps.gz

which takes a lexical chaining approach to lexical cohesion, with an
application in automatic hypertext construction. I'm currently
working on the next generation of a lexical chainer, which should be
ready to go in another few weeks.

SJG

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