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  <Title>Using Readers to Identify Lexical Cohesive Structures in Texts</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The quest for finding what it is that makes an ordered list of linguistic forms into a text that is fluently readable by people dates back at least to Halliday and Hasan's (1976) seminal work on textual cohesion.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> They identified a number of cohesive constructions: repetition (using the same words, or via repeated reference, substitution and ellipsis), conjunction and lexical cohesion.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Some of those structures - for example, cohesion achieved through repeated reference - have been subjected to reader based tests, often while trying to produce gold standard data for testing computational models, a task requiring sufficient inter-annotator agreement (Hirschman et al., 1998; Mitkov et al., 2000; Poesio and Vieira, 1998).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Experimental investigation of lexical cohesion is an emerging enterprise (Morris and Hirst, 2005) to which the current study contributes. We present our version of the question to the reader to which lexical cohesion patterns are an answer (section 2), describe an experiment on 22 readers using this question (section 3), and analyze the experimental data (section 4).</Paragraph>
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