Erratum: Reader-based exploration of lexical cohesion (Lang Resources and Evaluation DOI: 10.1007/s10579-006-9004-6)

Beata Beigman Klebanov*, Eli Shamir

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debate

Abstract

Lexical cohesion refers to the reader-perceived unity of text achieved by the author's usage of words with related meanings (Halliday and Hasan, 1976). This article reports on an experiment with 22 readers aimed at finding lexical cohesive patterns in 10 texts. Although there was much diversity in peoples' answers, we identified a common core of the phenomenon, using statistical analysis of agreement patterns and a validation experiment. The core data may now be used as a minimal test set for models of lexical cohesion; we present an example suggesting that models based on mutually exclusive lexical chains will not suffice. In addition, we believe that procedures for revealing and analyzing sub-group patterns of agreement described here may be applied to data collected in other studies of comparable size.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)27-44
Number of pages18
JournalLanguage Resources and Evaluation
Volume41
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2007

Keywords

  • Cohesion
  • Inter-annotator agreement
  • Lexical cohesion

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Erratum: Reader-based exploration of lexical cohesion (Lang Resources and Evaluation DOI: 10.1007/s10579-006-9004-6)'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this