Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix

Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix
Author: Danielle S. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2014-03-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1139867091

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix describes this computational tool, as well as the wide range of language and discourse measures it provides. Part I of the book focuses on the theoretical perspectives that led to the development of Coh-Metrix, its measures, and empirical work that has been conducted using this approach. Part II shifts to the practical arena, describing how to use Coh-Metrix and how to analyze, interpret, and describe results. Coh-Metrix opens the door to a new paradigm of research that coordinates studies of language, corpus analysis, computational linguistics, education, and cognitive science. This tool empowers anyone with an interest in text to pursue a wide array of previously unanswerable research questions.

Deep Comprehension

Deep Comprehension
Author: Keith K. Millis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 135161326X

This volume provides an overview of research from the learning sciences into understanding, enhancing, and measuring "deep comprehension" from a psychological, educational, and psychometric perspective. It describes the characteristics of deep comprehension, what techniques may be used to improve it, and how deep levels of comprehension may be distinguished from shallow ones. It includes research on personal-level variables; how intelligent tutors promote comprehension; and the latest developments in psychometrics. The volume will be of interest to senior undergraduate and graduate students of cognitive psychology, learning, cognition and instruction, and educational technology.

Systematic Observation: Engaging Researchers in the Study of Daily Life as It Is Lived

Systematic Observation: Engaging Researchers in the Study of Daily Life as It Is Lived
Author: M. Teresa Anguera
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 2889459624

Assessment in natural contexts through observation is unquestionably complex. Systematic observation grounded in observational methodology offers a wide range of possibilities to the rigorous study of everyday behavior in their natural context. These possibilities have been enriched in recent decades with the explosion of information and communication technologies. In this eBook we assemble 23 articles from several researchers who have made important contributions to this evolving field. The articles included in this eBook has been organized with a first part on general methodological developments and a second part with methodological contributions that emphasize different application areas. Considering the enormous possibilities of the systematic observation in the study of daily life, we hope this eBook will be useful to understand innovative applications in different fields.

Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology

Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology
Author: Lorenzo Magnani
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2010-09-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642152236

Systematically presented to enhance the feasibility of fuzzy models, this book introduces the novel concept of a fuzzy network whose nodes are rule bases and their interconnections are interactions between rule bases in the form of outputs fed as inputs.

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2009-09-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0080922783

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 51 includes chapters on such varied topics as emotion and memory interference, electrophysiology, mathematical cognition, and reader participation in narrative. - Volume 51 of the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series - An essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive science - Relevant to both applied concerns and basic research

Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory

Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory
Author: Hajime Otani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429801572

The Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory presents a collection of chapters on methodology used by researchers in investigating human memory. Understanding the basic cognitive function of human memory is critical in a wide variety of fields, such as clinical psychology, developmental psychology, education, neuroscience, and gerontology, and studying memory has become particularly urgent in recent years due to the prominence of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s. However, choosing the most appropriate method of research is a daunting task for most scholars. This book explores the methods that are currently available in various areas of human memory research and serves as a reference manual to help guide readers’ own research. Each chapter is written by prominent researchers and features cutting-edge research on human memory and cognition, with topics ranging from basic memory processes to cognitive neuroscience to further applications. The focus here is not on the "what," but the "how"—how research is best conducted on human memory.

Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective

Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective
Author: Cristina Grisot
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2018-10-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3319967525

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to the cognitive temporal coherence of the mental representations built in the language comprehension process. As such, it investigates the phenomenon of temporal reference at the interface between corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics and pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, natural language processing and machine translation.

Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration

Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration
Author: Rajendra Prasath
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319138170

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2014, held in Cork, Ireland, in December 2014. The 40 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers cover topics such as information retrieval, feature selection, classification, clustering, image processing, network security, speech processing, machine learning, recommender systems, natural language processing, language, cognition and computation, and business intelligence.