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Behavior Research Methods | 2006

A Computational Model for Simulating Text Comprehension

Benoît Lemaire; Guy Denhière; Cédrick Bellissens; Sandra Jhean-Larose

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.


European Journal of Psychology of Education | 2001

The interaction between textual structures and prior knowledge: Hypotheses, data and simulations

Stéphanie Caillies; Guy Denhière

Our purpose was to compare the effect of two types of textual semantic coherence — causal and teleological — on the organization of the mental representation elaborated after reading by learners with different levels of prior knowledge. Beginners, Intermediates and Advanced in computer domain read either the causal or the teleological version of a text describing three functions of a text editor, then performed a cued recall and a recognition task. We assumed that Advanced learners build a mental representation of the domain organized in a hierarchical goal/sub-goals structure, whereas Beginners and Intermediates have a mental representation organized in a causal path. If this is so, the results should indicate a significant interaction between prior knowledge and the semantic coherence of the texts: for the Advanced learners, recall and recognition of the teleological text should be better, whereas for the Beginners and Intermediates, the reverse was expected. As we assumed, results indicated that a teleological organization of textual information facilitated the comprehension of Advanced participants while a temporal-causal organization facilitated the comprehension of Beginner and Intermediate participants. The Construction-Integration model of Kintsch (1988, 1998) was used to, simulate the recall results and to reproduce the effect of prior knowledge on the retrieval of textual information.RésuméL’objectif de cet article était d’appréhender l’effet de deux types de cohérence sémantique textuelle — causale et téléologique — sur l’organisation de la représentation mentale construite à l’issue de la lecture par des lecteurs de différents niveaux de connaissance. Des Débutants, des Intermédiaires et des Avancés dans le domaine informatique devaient lire soit la version causale, soit la version téléologique d’un texte décrivant trois fonctions d’un traitement de texte, puis devaient effectuer une épreuve de rappel indicé testée était la suivante: les Avancés construiront une représentation mentale du domaine organisée en un arbre de but/sous-buts alors que les Débutants et les Intermédiaires élaboreront une représentation organisée en un chemin causal. En d’autres termes, nous nous attendions à observer une interaction entre les connaissances initiales des lecteurs et le type de cohérence textuelle: les performances de rappel et de reconnaissance des Avancés seront supérieures suite à la lecture du texte téléologique que suite à celle du texte causal alors que l’inverse est attendu pour les Débutants et Intermédiaires. Les résultats obtenus indiquent que l’organisation téléologique facilite la compréhension des Avancés alors que l’organisation temporo-causale facilite la compréhension des Débutants et Intermédiaires. Pour tester la plausibilité formelle de notre hypothèse, des simulations ont été réalisées dans le cadre du modèle Construction-Intégration de Kintsch (1988; 1998) et sont présentées après les résultats expérimentaux.


Behavior Research Methods | 2012

Validating an interlingual metanorm for emotional analysis of texts

Nicolas Leveau; Sandra Jhean-Larose; Guy Denhière; Ba-Linh Nguyen

In this article, we present a set of 12 norms that characterize emotional terms in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, and Finnish. The high correlation between the norm values in the two emotional dimensions of valence and arousal suggests an interlingual homogeneity of emotional representations and allows a significant metanorm—EMONORM—to be established with 6,383 terms characterized in valence and 4,345 terms characterized in arousal. This metanorm is a resource for creating experimental materials in studies on language and emotions. Furthermore, we perform three tests using EMONORM, with the objectives of (1) identifying basic emotions from their valence and arousal values, (2) determining the orientation of texts referring to positive and negative emotions, and (3) evaluating the intensity of emotions expressed in texts. The results are highly similar to those for human judgments. Finally, we present EMOVAL/SEMOTEX, a Web application for static and dynamic valence and arousal emotional analysis of texts using EMONORM (http://www.semotex.fr).


Educational Psychology Review | 1993

Representation in memory and acquisition of knowledge from text and picture: Theoretical, methodological, and practical outcomes

Guy Denhière; Denis Legros; Isabelle Tapiero

Over the last 10 years, text comprehension research has undergone profound theoretical and methodological upheaval. Today, psychologists study language and texts because they present the trace markers of structures and cognitive operations. A text is no longer seen as a vehicle for conveying constructed meaning. Rather, text has been redefined as merely a structured sequence of stimuli, which activates both domain-related knowledge triggered by text information and linguistic knowledge. We present the theoretical views and experimental findings of the TEXTIMA group, characterized by the importance of the connectionist concepts.


Annee Psychologique | 2006

Étude des processus cognitifs de construction et d'interprétation de combinaisons conceptuelles nouvelles

Sandra Jhean-Larose; Guy Denhière

Dans cet article, nous presentons et nous discutons les principaux modeles explicatifs de l’interpretation de combinaisons conceptuelles «Adjectif-Nom» («grive rocheuse») et «Nom-Nom» («cheval zebre», «chaise lit») proposes ces dernieres annees. S’ils postulent tous que l’interpretation d’une combinaison conceptuelle implique la mise en relation de ses constituants (Modificateur et Nom Principal), ces modeles se distinguent par la nature des processus invoques pour etablir cette relation et par le role joue par les connaissances du monde. La premiere categorie (Gagne et Shoben, 1997, Gagne, 2000, 2001) suppose que le Modificateur et le Nom Principal sont lies par un ensemble limite de relations thematiques. La seconde categorie invoque la notion de schema et ses proprietes structurales et fonctionnelles pour rendre compte de l’elaboration de la signification (Smith, Osherson, Rips and Keane, 1988; Murphy, 1988). Au sein de cette derniere, les modeles du «double processus» de Wisniewski (1997, 2001) et de «la combinaison conceptuelle guidee par la satisfaction de contraintes» de Costello et Keane (2000, 2001) visent a rendre compte d’une part, de l’ensemble des interpretations en termes de relation, de propriete ou d’hybridation entre les composants de la combinaison et, d’autre part, du role joue par les connaissances sur les processus d’interpretation.


arXiv: Computation and Language | 2006

Effects of High-Order Co-occurrences on Word Semantic Similarity

Benoît Lemaire; Guy Denhière


European Journal of Cognitive Psychology | 2002

The effect of prior knowledge on understanding from text: Evidence from primed recognition

Stéphanie Caillies; Guy Denhière; Walter Kintsch


Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society | 2004

Incremental Construction of an Associative Network from a Corpus

Benoît Lemaire; Guy Denhière


conference cognitive science | 2004

A Computational Model of Children's Semantic Memory

Guy Denhière; Benoît Lemaire


Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci' 2005) | 2005

Computational Cognitive Models of Summarization Assessment Skills

Benoît Lemaire; Sonia Mandin; Philippe Dessus; Guy Denhière

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