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A computational model for simulating text comprehension

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Abstract

In the present article, we outline the architecture of a computer program for simulating the process by which humans comprehend texts. The program is based on psycholinguistic theories about human memory and text comprehension processes, such as the construction-integration model (Kintsch, 1998), the latent semantic analysis theory of knowledge representation (Landauer & Dumais, 1997), and the predication algorithms (Kintsch, 2001; Lemaire & Bianco, 2003), and it is intended to help psycholinguists investigate the way humans comprehend texts.

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  1. University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France

    Benoît Lemaire

  2. CNRS and University of Provence, Marseille, France

    Guy Denhière

  3. University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee

    Cédrick Bellissens

  4. University of Paris VIII and IUFM, Paris, France

    Sandra Jhean-Larose

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Lemaire, B., Denhière, G., Bellissens, C. et al. A computational model for simulating text comprehension. Behavior Research Methods 38, 628–637 (2006). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193895

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Keywords

  • Episodic Memory
  • Semantic Similarity
  • Semantic Memory
  • Latent Semantic Analysis
  • Text Comprehension