Corpora: analysing cohesion

[Pat Maier]

Hello

I am interested in using corpora to analyse student essays in terms and
determine cohesive profiles between certain groups.  Is anyone doing
current research in this area?  I am having problems identifying suitable
software that will allow me to tag  and then software to suitably analyse
for any aspect of cohesion.

I would be grateful, otherwise it is back to basics.

thanks in advance, Pat Maier
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Pat Maier
Educational Developer
University of Southampton
Centre for Learning and Teaching
Building 2
Southampton SO17 1BJ

Tel:    +44 (0)1703 59 3314
Fax:    +44 (0)1703 59 2651
Email:  pjm at soton.ac.uk
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