back to the Publication Alerts menuGraesser, Arthur C., Danielle S. McNamara, Max M. Louwerse, and Zhiqiang Cai. "Coh-Metrix: Analysis of Text on Cohesion and Language." Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 36, no. 2 (2004): 193-202.
From the abstract: "We have developed a computer tool called Coh-Metrix, which analyzes texts on over 200 measures of cohesion, language, and readability. Its modules use lexicons, part-of-speech classifiers, syntactic parsers, templates, corpora, latent semantic analysis, and other components that are widely used in computational linguistics....Standard text readability formulas scale texts on difficulty by relying on word length and sentence length, whereas Coh-Metrix is sensitive to cohesion relations, world knowledge, and language and discourse characteristics."
The Coh-Metrix web site is at http://cohmetrix.memphis.edu.