PURPOSE In this study, we aimed at building and validating an instrument to assess reading comprehension, with the purpose of characterizing the reading profile and detecting comprehension difficulties among students from the third to the fifth grades of elementary school. METHODS Participants were 378 students, divided into three groups. Their comprehension of micro- and macrostructural lite...

1. introduction some narratologists like kristeva and genette believe that if a text remembers another text, a dialogue has taken place between them and an inter-textual (or trans-textual) relationship has thus been established. some also believe that there is always a relationship between texts. among them, genette accompanied his claims by a theory and opened a new way before the narratologis...

Using Toulmin's argumentation theory, we analysed the texts of systematic reviews in the area of workplace health promotion to explore differences in the modes of reasoning embedded in reports of narrative synthesis as compared with reports of meta-analysis. We used framework synthesis, grounded theory and cross-case analysis methods to analyse 85 systematic reviews addressing intervention effe...

When dealing with narrative texts, a system must possess a strong domain theory, and especially knowledge about situations occurring in the world. Otherwise the system must envisage comprehension as a complex process including learning from the texts themselves to improve its capabilities. This requires managing past solutions and completing them when analoguous situations happen in other texts...

INTRODUCTION A big amount of important, " economically relevant " information, is buried into unstructured " narrative " information resources: This is true, for example, for most of the corporate knowledge documents (memos, policy statements, reports, minutes, etc.), for the news stories, the normative and legal texts, the medical records, many intelligence messages as well as for a huge fract...