Reading and Understanding Texts

the role of semantic and communicative translation on reading comprehension of scientific texts

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

The Analysis of Reading Tasks and Texts

Understanding Short Texts

∗You can find more materials from our tutorial website: http://www.wangzhongyuan.com/tutorial/ ACL2016/Understanding-Short-Texts/ makes them extremely difficult to handle. On the other hand, search engines, seem to be able to handle short texts (queries) quite well. This however does not mean search engines have an organic understanding of short texts, rather, the semantic gap is filled in by h...

Reading and understanding a

Under the perspective that science communication will increasingly be done through the Internet, it is important to understand how users read and understand information in this medium. This study focuses the Web and it examines the effects of presenting a document set (a popular science magazine report) in two different formats: print and hypertext. An experimental protocol was used to assess r...

Learning from Reading Syntactically Complex Biology Texts

This paper concerns learning information by reading natural language texts. The major aim is to develop representations which are understandable by a reasoning engine and can be used to answer questions. We use abduction for mapping natural language data into concise and speci c theories underlying the textual data. Techniques for automatically generating usable data representations are discuss...