creators_name: Lemaire, Benoit
creators_name: Mandin, Sonia
creators_name: Dessus, Philippe
creators_name: Denhière, Guy
editors_name: Bara, Bruno
editors_name: Barsalou, Lawrence
editors_name: Bucciarelli, Monica
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2005-09-18
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:10
metadata_visibility: show
title: Computational Cognitive Models of Summarization Assessment Skills
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: psy-ling
subjects: cog-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: summarization, macrorules, cognitive modeling, computer environment, latent semantic analysis
abstract: This paper presents a general computational cognitive model of the way a summary is assessed by teachers. It is based on models of two subprocesses: determining the importance of sentences and guessing the cognitive rules that the student may have used. All models are based on Latent Semantic Analysis, a computational model of the representation of the meaning of words and sentences. Models' performances are compared with data from an experiment conducted with 278 middle school students. The general model was implemented in a learning environment designed for helping students to write summaries.
date: 2005
date_type: published
pagerange: 1266-1271
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Lemaire, Benoit and Mandin, Sonia and Dessus, Philippe and Denhière, Guy  (2005) Computational Cognitive Models of Summarization Assessment Skills.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4536/1/cogsci05.pdf