PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS’ SUMMARIZING SKILLS IN NARRATIVE AND EXPOSITORY TEXTS

Assessing short summaries with human judgments procedure and latent semantic analysis in narrative and expository texts.

In the present study, we tested a computer-based procedure for assessing very concise summaries (50 words long) of two types of text (narrative and expository) using latent semantic analysis (LSA) in comparison with the judgments of four human experts. LSA was used to estimate semantic similarity using six different methods: four holistic (summary-text, summary-summaries, summary-expert summari...

Processing and memory of information presented in narrative or expository texts.

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that narrative and expository texts differ in the extent to which they prompt students to integrate to-be-learned content with relevant prior knowledge during comprehension. AIMS We expand on previous research by examining on-line processing and representation in memory of to-be-learned content that is embedded in narrative or expository texts. We are par...

Inference making while reading narrative and expository texts: An ERP study

Much of the recent research on discourse comprehension has centered on the readers’ ability to construct coherent mental representations of texts. In order to form a unifi ed representation of a given text, a reader must be able to join the information presented in the text with his/her background knowledge to construe the meaning that may not be explicitly stated, through the generation of inf...

Identifying Information Structure in Expository Texts

Identification of ‘information structure’ (organization of information within an utterance) is crucial for processing contextually-appropriate linguistic forms in many NLP systems. This paper presents a theory and a procedure to identify information structure in expository texts in English, and also an evaluation method that is used to validate the results of the identification process for real...

Coherence structure and lexical cohesion in expository and persuasive texts