Automatic Measurement of Cohesion and Coherence in Agglutinative Languages: A Cohesion and Coherence Formula for Turkish
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Arş. Gör. Muhittin Rahman KALYONCU Sinop Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Batur Alp Akdoğan
Doç. Dr. Muhammet Memiş Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Özgün Makale (ESCI dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Glottometrics
Dergi ISSN 1617-8351 Dergi Bilgileri (2026)
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler Scopus, WoS
Makale Dili Türkçe Basım Tarihi 09-2026
Kabul Tarihi – Yayınlanma Tarihi 06-09-2026
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 61 / 61 / 1–26 DOI 10.53482/2026_61_435
Makale Linki https://doi.org/10.53482/2026_61_435
UAK Araştırma Alanları
Türkçe Eğitimi
Özet
Due to the absence of an objective methodology and empirical research on measuring cohesion and coherence in Turkish, this study aims to establish a framework for the objective assessment of textual coherence and cohesion in this agglutinative language. To achieve this, the coherence, cohesion, and comprehensibility of 25 texts were first evaluated by 60 experts in language education. Next, structural text features, NLP-based similarity models, and large language models with potential to determine coherence and cohesion were identified and applied to the texts. The analyses highlighted the factors that can be employed in evaluating coherence and cohesion, and regression equations were constructed using these variables. Consequently, for the first time, objective and empirical methodologies have been developed to assess the coherence and cohesion of Turkish texts, while accounting for the structural characteristics of agglutinative languages.
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