Good readers ask themselves questions during reading. Our goal is to scaffold this self-questioning strategy automatically to help children in grades 1-3 understand informational text. In previous work, we showed that instruction for self-questioning can be generated for narrative text. This paper tests the generality of that approach by applying it to informational text. We describe the modifi...

Automatically annotating texts with background information has recently received much attention. In this note, we outline a case study in automatically generating links from narrative radiology reports to Wikipedia. Such links are meant to help users understand the medical terminology and thereby increase the value of the reports. We discuss our findings throughout this study and the open quest...

This paper proposes an approach for the reconstruction of itineraries extracted from narrative texts. This approach is divided into two main tasks. The first extracts geographical information with natural language processing. Its outputs are annotations of so called expanded entities and expressions of displacement or perception from hiking descriptions. In order to reconstruct a plausible foot...

In this paper, I describe NKRL, a language expressly designed for representing, in a standardised way, the semantic content (the "meaning") of complex narrative texts. After having introduced the four "components" (specialised sub-languages) of NKRL, I will give some examples of its practical modalities of use. I will then describe, in a very sketchy way, the inference techniques and the natura...

This article probes how childhood experiences are actively taken into adult lives and thus challenges the unwitting and unintentional reproduction of an adult-child binary in childhood studies. We do this by analyzing interviews with one adult daughter of immigrants from Mexico to the United States at four points in time (ages 19, 26, 27, and 33). Using narrative analysis to examine the mutabil...

This study explored the relationship between EFL learners’ vocabulary size, lexical coverage of the text and reading comprehension texts (narrative & argumentative genres). To this end, 120 male and female out of 180 students studying at Talesh Azad University were selected based on their performance on the Nelson Proficiency Test. A Nelson reading proficiency test was also administered in orde...

In allegories polysemy relates not only to the context and the audience’s understanding but also to the structural characters of these texts. This paper investigates the function of structural and narrative properties in the creation of multiple interpretations of an allegory. Focusing on the events and following a unique story-line is the most important trait in helping to read the alleg...

Despite the implicit belief that IT innovations brings beneficial change, medical practitioners and healthcare professionals constantly struggle to realize the innovation potential of electronic medical records (EMR) system in revolutionizing clinical practices. To understand this conundrum, this paper uses an in-depth case study of an EMR implementation to develop a grounded theory of why, whe...

A series of seven computing and online games was reviewed following a criterion based selection process. The games were reviewed relative to their capacity to incorporate elements of gaming comparable to content or themes evident in children’s literature including, type of game, genre, elements of violence, disturbing scenes, gender of key protagonists or heroes, location and relative time fram...

The aim of this research was to describe how the rhetoric symbols were reinforced organize Ideas Narrative Texts found in Dr. Seuss Children Books. He had written children books more than 60 childrens including several most popular narrative all time coming from America. This study descriptive Qualitative by using textual analysis. sources data form Horton Hatches Egg, Thidwick-the Big Hearted ...