Lexical Cohesion Relationship

See: Lexical Semantics, Natural Language Comprehension, Lexical Chain, Anaphora Resolution, Discourse Analysis.

References

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cohesion_(linguistics)#Lexical_cohesion Retrieved:2015-8-15.
- Lexical cohesion refers to the way in which related words are chosen to link elements of a text. There are two forms: repetition and collocation. Repetition uses the same word, or synonyms, antonyms, etc. For example, "Which dress are you going to wear?" – "I will wear my green frock," uses the synonyms "dress" and "frock" for lexical cohesion. Collocation uses related words that typically go together or tend to repeat the same meaning. An example is the phrase "once upon a time".

(Klebanov & Shamir, 2006) ⇒ Beata Beigman Klebanov, and Eli Shamir. (2006). “Reader-based Exploration of Lexical Cohesion.” In: Language Resources and Evaluation, 40(2). doi:10.1007/s10579-006-9004-6
- It is associated with (Klebanov & Shamir, 2006) ⇒ Beata Beigman Klebanov, and Eli Shamir. (2005). “Guidelines for annotation of concept mention patterns." Technical Report 2005–8, Leibniz Center for Research in Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

(Morris & Hirst, 1991) ⇒ Jane Morris, and Graeme Hirst (1991). "Lexical cohesion computed by thesaural relations as an indicator of the structure of text". Computational linguistics, 17(1), 21-48.
- ABSTRACT: In text, lexical cohesion is the result of chains of related words that contribute to the continuity of lexical meaning. These lexical chains are a direct result of units of text being "about the same thing," and finding text structure involves finding units of text that are about the same thing. Hence, computing the chains is useful, since they will have a correspondence to the structure of the text. Determining the structure of text is an essential step in determining the deep meaning of the text. In this paper, a thesaurus is used as the major knowledge base for computing lexical chains. Correspondences between lexical chains and structural elements are shown to exist. Since the lexical chains are computable, and exist in non-domain-specific text, they provide a valuable indicator of text structure. The lexical chains also provide a semantic context for interpreting words, concepts, and sentences.

(Halliday & Hasan, 1976) ⇒ Michael A. K. Halliday, and Ruqaiya Hasan. (1976). “Cohesion in English." Longman. ISBN:0582550416
- QUOTE: Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part of the linguistic system: its resources for text construction, the range of meanings that are specifically associated with relating what is being spoken or written to its semantic environment. A principal component of these resources is 'cohesion'. This book studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between sentences. Reference from one to the other, repetition of word meanings, the conjunctive force of but, so, then and the like are considered. Further, it describes a method for analysing and coding sentences, which is applied to specimen texts.