Structures and Procedures of Implicit Knowledge: (Advances in Discourse Processes)

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Specific Goals of This Book The Use of Question Answering Protocols and Verbal Protocols Some Theoretical and Practical Biases Inferences and Inference Engines Generic Knowledge Structures Conceptual Graph Structures Procedures Comprehension of Narrative Passages Passage Recall, Passage Summarization, and Question Answering Summary of Remaining Chapters A SYSTEM FOR REPRESENTING KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES A Brief Overview of the Representational System Goals of the Proposed Representational System Statement Nodes Reference Statement Node Categories Arc Categories and Composition Rules Articulation of Information in Conceptual Graph Structures Final Comments AN ANALYSIS OF 51 GENERIC KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES Methods of Analyzing the Content and Structure of Generic Knowledge Structures Descriptive Statistics on 51 Generic Knowledge Structures Summary of Analyses of the Five GKS Families Some Observations about the Conceptual Graph Structures of the GKSs Relationships Among Structural Centrality, Generation Likelihood, and the Four Rated Dimensions Some Comments about our Methods of Analyzing Generic Knowledge Structures AN ANALYSIS OF TAXONOMIC, IMPLICATIONAL, GOAL-ORIENTED AND CAUSE-ORIENTED SUBSTRUCTURES Taxonomic Substructures Some Determinants of What Information Tends to Be Articulated in Free Generation Tasks Implicational Substructures Goal-Oriented Substructures Cause-Oriented Substructures Summary of What Information Tends to Be Directly Stored in a GKS Summary of What Information Tends to Be Articulated in a Free Generation Task CONSTRUCTING STRUCTURES DURING NARRATIVE PROSE COMPREHENSION A Model of Narrative Prose Comprehension A Question Answering Method of Exploring Passage Comprehension Some Results That Address the Assumptions of the Model of Comprehension Comprehension Difficulty RECALL, SUMMARIZATION, AND QUESTION ANSWERING Recall and Summarization Question Answering Final Comments References Author Index Subject IndexArthur C. Graesser is the author of 'Structures and Procedures of Implicit Knowledge: (Advances in Discourse Processes)', published 1985 under ISBN 9780893911928 and ISBN 0893911925.