Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Specific Goals of This Book
The Use of Question Answering Protocols and Verbal Protocols
Some Theoretical and Practical Biases
Inferences and Inference Engines
Generic Knowledge Structures
Conceptual Graph Structures
Procedures
Comprehension of Narrative Passages
Passage Recall, Passage Summarization, and Question Answering
Summary of Remaining Chapters
A SYSTEM FOR REPRESENTING KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES
A Brief Overview of the Representational System
Goals of the Proposed Representational System
Statement Nodes
Reference
Statement Node Categories
Arc Categories and Composition Rules
Articulation of Information in Conceptual Graph Structures
Final Comments
AN ANALYSIS OF 51 GENERIC KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES
Methods of Analyzing the Content and Structure of Generic Knowledge Structures
Descriptive Statistics on 51 Generic Knowledge Structures
Summary of Analyses of the Five GKS Families
Some Observations about the Conceptual Graph Structures of the GKSs
Relationships Among Structural Centrality, Generation Likelihood, and the Four Rated Dimensions
Some Comments about our Methods of Analyzing Generic Knowledge Structures
AN ANALYSIS OF TAXONOMIC, IMPLICATIONAL, GOAL-ORIENTED AND CAUSE-ORIENTED SUBSTRUCTURES
Taxonomic Substructures
Some Determinants of What Information Tends to Be Articulated in Free Generation Tasks
Implicational Substructures
Goal-Oriented Substructures
Cause-Oriented Substructures
Summary of What Information Tends to Be Directly Stored in a GKS
Summary of What Information Tends to Be Articulated in a Free Generation Task
CONSTRUCTING STRUCTURES DURING NARRATIVE PROSE COMPREHENSION
A Model of Narrative Prose Comprehension
A Question Answering Method of Exploring Passage Comprehension
Some Results That Address the Assumptions of the Model of Comprehension
Comprehension Difficulty
RECALL, SUMMARIZATION, AND QUESTION ANSWERING
Recall and Summarization
Question Answering
Final Comments
References
Author Index
Subject Index