Gestalt Formation During Reader’s Text Interpretation Process

How Readers Process Chinese Orthography: Text, Language, and Culture

Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension

In this paper we study the problem of answering cloze-style questions over documents. Our model, the Gated-Attention (GA) Reader1, integrates a multi-hop architecture with a novel attention mechanism, which is based on multiplicative interactions between the query embedding and the intermediate states of a recurrent neural network document reader. This enables the reader to build query-specific...

Simplifying Text for Language-Impaired Readers

Readers’ Perceptions of Lexical Cohesion in Text

Preliminary results from an experimental study of readers’ perceptions of lexical cohesion and lexical semantic relations in text are presented. Readers agree on a common “core” of groups of related words and exhibit individual differences. The majority of relations reported are “non-classical” (not hyponymy, meronymy, synonymy, or antonymy). A group of commonly used relations is presented. The...

The Effect of Self-Regulation on Improving EFL Readers’ Ability to Make Within-Text Inferences

Self-regulation is the ability to regulate one’s cognition, behavior, actions, and motivation strategically and autonomously in order to achieve self-set goals including the learning of academic skills and knowledge. Accordingly, self-regulated learning involves self-generated and systematic thoughts and behaviors with the aim of attaining learning goals. With that in mind, this study aimed to ...