To correctly deal with context-dependent linguistic forms in NLP systems, the literature has pointed out the importance of identifying ‘information structure’ (organization of information within an utterance). However, there has been no report of evaluating such procedures. This paper presents a noble evaluation procedure and compares three models of identifying information structure in exposit...

The Role of Epistemic Beliefs in the Comprehension of Multiple Expository Texts: Toward an Integrated Model Ivar Bråten a , M. Anne Britt b , Helge I. Strømsø a & Jean-François Rouet c a Department of Educational Research, University of Oslo, Norway b Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University c Laboratoire Langage, Mémoiré et Developpement Cognitif, University of Poitiers and Centr...

Although critical for the regulation of many reading and studying behaviors, metacomprehension accuracy is generally observed to be quite low. The present research examined how metacomprehension accuracy would be affected by practice tests designed to give readers expectations about the kind of tests they would be given, and self-explanation instructions to give readers access to valid cues for...

One of the most crucial problem areas of information science concerns the identification of what documents are 'about'. This paper seeks to define the notion of 'aboutness ' within the context of recent work in text linguistics. It describes, first, the essential communicational structures of sentences, paragraphs and texts in terms of theme, rheme and thematic progression, connectors of clause...

PURPOSE In this study, we aimed at building and validating an instrument to assess reading comprehension, with the purpose of characterizing the reading profile and detecting comprehension difficulties among students from the third to the fifth grades of elementary school. METHODS Participants were 378 students, divided into three groups. Their comprehension of micro- and macrostructural lite...

This chapter describes a study that investigates the potential value of using traditional fairy tales as reading material for English language learners (ELL). Using the computational textual analysis software, the Gramulator, the authors analyzed the linguistic features of fairy tales relative to a corpus of ELL reading material and a corpus of baseline educational texts for native English spea...

In this paper, we present several proposals in order to improve the LSA tools to evaluate brief summaries (less than 50 words) of narrative and expository texts. First, we analyse the quality of six different methods assessing essays that have been widely employed before (Foltz et al., 2000). The second objective is to analyse how new algorithms inspired by some authors (Denhière et al., 2007) ...