Computational Linguistics - Summarization
Lexical cohesion computed by thesaural relations as an indicator of the structure of text
Computational Linguistics
Correcting real-word spelling errors by restoring lexical cohesion
Natural Language Engineering
Information: Objective or subjective-situational?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Grammaticality judgement in a word completion task
CL&W '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Writing: Writing Processes and Authoring Aids
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Many tasks in library and information science (e.g., indexing, abstracting, classification, and text analysis techniques such as discourse and content analysis) require text meaning interpretation, and, therefore, any individual differences in interpretation are relevant and should be considered, especially for applications in which these tasks are done automatically. This article investigates individual differences in the interpretation of one aspect of text meaning that is commonly used in such automatic applications: lexical cohesion and lexical semantic relations. Experiments with 26 participants indicate an approximately 40% difference in interpretation. In total, 79, 83, and 89 lexical chains (groups of semantically related words) were analyzed in 3 texts, respectively. A major implication of this result is the possibility of modeling individual differences for individual users. Further research is suggested for different types of texts and readers than those used here, as well as similar research for different aspects of text meaning. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.