CohExplore: Visually Supporting Students in Exploring Text Cohesion
Abstract
A cohesive text allows readers to follow the described ideas and events. Exploring cohesion in text might aid students enhancing their academic writing. We introduce CohExplore, which promotes exploring and reflecting on cohesion of a given text by visualizing computed cohesion-related metrics on an overview and detailed level. Detected topics are color-coded, semantic similarity is shown via lines, while connectives and co-references in a paragraph are encoded using text decoration. Demonstrating the system, we share insights about a student-authored text.
Citation
@inproceedings{Liebers2023CohExplore,
author = {Carina Liebers, Shivam Agarwal, and Fabian Beck},
title = {CohExplore: Visually Supporting Students in Exploring Text Cohesion},
booktitle = {EuroVis - Poster},
year = {2023},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
doi = {10.2312/evp.20231058},
paperurl = {/publications/Liebers2023CohExplore/Liebers2023CohExplore.pdf},
demo = {https://coh-explore.vercel.app/},
poster = {/publications/Liebers2023CohExplore/Liebers2023CohExplore_Poster.pdf},
abstract = {A cohesive text allows readers to follow the described ideas and events. Exploring cohesion in text might aid students enhancing their academic writing. We introduce CohExplore, which promotes exploring and reflecting on cohesion of a given text by visualizing computed cohesion-related metrics on an overview and detailed level. Detected topics are color-coded, semantic similarity is shown via lines, while connectives and co-references in a paragraph are encoded using text decoration. Demonstrating the system, we share insights about a student-authored text.}
}