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Reading comprehension is key to knowledge acquisition and to reinforcing memory for previous information. While reading, a mental representation is constructed in the reader’s mind. The mental model comprises the words in the text, the relations between the words, and inferences linking to concepts in prior knowledge. The automated model of comprehension (AMoC) simulates the construction of readers’ mental representations of text by building syntactic and semantic relations between words, coupled with inferences of related concepts that rely on various automated semantic models. This paper introduces the second version of AMoC that builds upon the initial model with a revised processing pipeline in Python leveraging state-of-the-art NLP models, additional heuristics for improved representations, as well as a new radiant graph visualization of the comprehension model.
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This research was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number TE 70 PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-2209, ATES – “Automated Text Evaluation and Simplification”, the Institute of Education Sciences (R305A180144 and R305A180261), and the Office of Naval Research (N00014-17-1-2300; N00014-20-1-2623). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the IES or ONR.
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Corlatescu, DG., Dascalu, M., McNamara, D.S. (2021). Automated Model of Comprehension V2.0. In: Roll, I., McNamara, D., Sosnovsky, S., Luckin, R., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78270-2_21
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