Software for Network-Based Textual Cohesion Analysis
Analyze indices of textual cohesion of an English text using semantic networks of cliques with a Shiny GUI. The indices used are those proposed in Oliveira et al. (2024).
The app was based on the script available at https://doi.org/10.24433/CO.0568085.v1, which was developed and used for the study reported in the article “Indices of Textual Cohesion by Lexical Repetition Based on Semantic Networks of Cliques” (Oliveira et al. 2024).
This app is an improvement over the script on which it was based because it can be used with any English text, provided it was manually cleaned, and uses a Shiny graphical user interface to facilitate the process of calculating the cohesion indices. Manual cleaning is necessary to ensure that the file to be processed contains a single text and that the caracters [.:?!…] are used exclusively as sentence delimiters. The process of manual cleaning must replace any other uses of these characters with different ones; for instance replacing decimal separators like in "1.5" with underscores, making it "1_5". Additionally, the app uses a different udpipe model to parse the text, with improved performance in universal part of speech tagging and lemmatization.
Oliveira, D. A., Senna, V., & Pereira, H. B. B. (2024). Indices of textual cohesion by lexical repetition based on semantic networks of cliques. Expert Systems with Applications, 237, 121580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121580
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