The use of connectives has been considered important for assessing the cohesion of written texts (Crossley et al., 2019). However, existing connective-based indices have not systematically addressed two issues of ambiguity, namely, that between discourse and non-discourse use of polysemous word forms and that in terms of the specific discourse relations marked by polysemous discourse connectives (Pitler & Nenkova, 2009). This study proposes 34 sense-aware connective-based indices of cohesion that account for these issues and assesses their predictive power for cohesion ratings in comparison to 25 existing indices. Results from the analysis of 3,911 argumentative essays from the English Language Learner Insight, Proficiency and Skills Evaluation Corpus show that 23 sense-aware indices but only three existing indices correlated significantly and meaningfully with cohesion ratings. The sense-aware indices also exhibited greater predictive power for cohesion ratings than existing indices. The implications of our findings for future cohesion research are discussed.

连接词的使用被认为对于评估书面文本的凝聚力很重要（Crossley et al.， 2019）。然而，现有的基于连接词的索引并未系统地解决两个歧义问题，即多义词形式的话语和非话语使用之间的问题，以及多义词篇连接词所标记的特定话语关系（Pitler & Nenkova，2009）。本研究提出了 34 个基于感觉感知的基于连接性的内聚指数来解释这些问题，并与 25 个现有指数相比评估了它们对内聚力评级的预测能力。对英语学习者洞察力、熟练度和技能评估语料库中的 3,911 篇议论文的分析结果表明，23 个感知指数，但只有 3 个现有指数与凝聚力评级显著且有意义地相关。与现有指数相比，感觉感知指数对凝聚力评级的预测能力也更大。讨论了我们的发现对未来凝聚力研究的影响。