Answering questions about expository texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11273003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith K Millis, Keith Millis (0000-0001-7639-6484, Northern Illinois University, corresponding author), Gregory P Barker, Gregory Barker (0000-0002-2317-2556, Northern Illinois University) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-84 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Processes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01638539609544949 |
| OpenAlex | W1985061548 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 34 |
Three experiments examined answer selection within the framework of a psychological model of question answering proposed by Graesser and Franklin (1990). The model, called QUEST, specifies how knowledge structures are searched during question answering. In Experiment 1, participants provided “goodness of answer” ratings to “why”‐, “how”‐, and “what is the consequence” (CONS) questions about recently read expository passages. Participants rated answers to questions generated from QUEST (i.e., “legal” answers) as being better answers than those not generated by QUEST (i.e., “illegal” answers). A priming‐recognition task (Experiment 2) and a lexical decision task (Experiment 3) were used to examine whether both legal and illegal answers were activated during the search process or only the legal answers. Participants recognized statements and provided lexical decisions more quickly if the targets represented legal answers to a preceding prime question than if they represented illegal answers, suggesting that the search progressed primarily along legal arcs. However, this pattern only occurred for why‐questions, and not for how‐ and CONS‐questions. The studies provided additional support for QUEST'S arc‐search procedures associated with why‐ and how‐questions in the context of natural expository texts
Context (archaeology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Priming (agriculture · Question answering · Selection (genetic algorithm · Task (project management · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Prose Comprehension Beyond the Word
Causal thinking and the representation of narrative events
Language Comprehension as Structure Building
Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension.
Causal relatedness and importance of story events
Lexical access during sentence comprehension
Strategies of discourse comprehension
Quest
Causal connectives increase inference generation
Text relations and recall for expository prose
What makes a good answer to a question
Question answering in the context of telephone surveys, business interactions, and interviews
Comprehension Processes in Reading
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
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| Citation span | 1998 - 2005 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |