In this paper, we investigate the distribution of narrative schemas (Chambers and Jurafsky, 2009) throughout different document categories and how the structure of narrative schemas is conditioned by document category, the converse of the relationship explored in Simonson and Davis (2015). We evaluate cross-category narrative differences by assessing the predictability of verbs in each category...

Prompt-based Learning has shown significant success in few-shot classification. The mainstream approach is to concatenate a template for the input text transform classification task into cloze-type where label mapping plays an important role finding ground-truth labels. While current methods only use contexts one single input, it could be crucial if wrong information contained text. Specificall...

The present study investigated children's comprehension of reading material which was of either highor low-interest. Previous research indicates that children comprehend more of highthan low-interest material when each child is given a mixture of both types of material. This effect could be due to a contrast effect whereby children selectively respond to the more appealing passages in their set...

this article reports on the findings of a study that investigated the impact of manipulating task performance conditions on listening task performance by learners of english as a foreign language (efl). the study was designed to explore the effects of changing complexity dimensions on listening task performance and to achieve two aims: to see how listening comprehension task performance was aff...

This paper presents a technique to generate distractors for cloze questions in the context of a Computer-Assisted Language Learning tutoring system. The document will focus on an evaluation process used to measure the quality of the distractors that were automatically generated. The main goal of the present study is to be able to include this feature in the tutoring system.

OBJECTIVE To explore the way the doctor-patient communication process may be improved by adopting the patients' conversational style in the development of written materials for surgical patients. METHODS Written information prepared by doctors, specialists in abdominal surgery, was tested for comprehension on patients undergoing cholecystectomy, using the standard Cloze test procedure. At the...