1989 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A cognitive-psychological study on comprehension, memory, and generation of text.
Project/Area Number |
63510038
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
Psychology
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Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
Principal Investigator |
ABE Jun-ichi Hokkaido University Dept. of Behavioral Science Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (40091409)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KANEKO Yasuo Kushiro Public University of Economics Lecturer, 経済学部, 講師 (60204567)
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Project Period (FY) |
1988 – 1989
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Keywords | Language comprehension / Text / Summarization / Memory / Language generation / Cognitive processes / Narrative story |
Research Abstract |
The purpose of this project was to clarify the human cognitive processes of comprehension, memory, and generation of text. Especially, in this project, we focused on the analysis of summarization process for narrative text. Because the process includes all of the processes of a reader's understanding, memory, and summary-generation for a given text. Followings are the brief descriptions of the findings in this project. 1. The summarization process consists of three main sub-processes; (1) Construction process of the meaning representation of a given text, (2) Determination process of the "gist" information in that meaning representation, and (3) Generation process of the connected surface expression of the gist information. 2. The three processes can be characterized by the reader's internal strategies, which include both special linguistic and general problem-solving ones. The strategies were proposed in the form of formal algorithm.
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Research Products
(12 results)