Changes in scientific articles over two hundred years: A coh-metrix analysis

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Design of Communication - The Engineering of Quality Documentation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 104-109

  Bruss, Michell ^a   Albers, Michael J ^a   McNamera, Danielle ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Historical research; Journal articles

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL RESEARCH; JOURNAL ARTICLES; SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FILE EDITORS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; TECHNICAL WRITING; TEXT PROCESSING;

NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 13344275800     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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