INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEWSpecific Goals of This BookThe Use of Question Answering Protocols and Verbal ProtocolsSome Theoretical and Practical BiasesInferences and Inference EnginesGeneric Knowledge StructuresConceptual Graph StructuresProceduresComprehension of Narrative PassagesPassage Recall, Passage Summarization, and Question AnsweringSummary of Remaining ChaptersA SYSTEM FOR REPRESENTING KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURESA Brief Overview of the Representational SystemGoals of the Proposed Representational SystemStatement NodesReferenceStatement Node CategoriesArc Categories and Composition RulesArticulation of Information in Conceptual Graph StructuresFinal CommentsAN ANALYSIS OF 51 GENERIC KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURESMethods of Analyzing the Content and Structure of Generic Knowledge StructuresDescriptive Statistics on 51 Generic Knowledge StructuresSummary of Analyses of the Five GKS FamiliesSome Observations about the Conceptual Graph Structures of the GKSsRelationships Among Structural Centrality, Generation Likelihood, and the Four Rated DimensionsSome Comments about our Methods of Analyzing Generic Knowledge StructuresAN ANALYSIS OF TAXONOMIC, IMPLICATIONAL, GOAL-ORIENTED AND CAUSE-ORIENTED SUBSTRUCTURESTaxonomic SubstructuresSome Determinants of What Information Tends to Be Articulated in Free Generation TasksImplicational SubstructuresGoal-Oriented SubstructuresCause-Oriented SubstructuresSummary of What Information Tends to Be Directly Stored in a GKSSummary of What Information Tends to Be Articulated in a Free Generation TaskCONSTRUCTING STRUCTURES DURING NARRATIVE PROSE COMPREHENSIONA Model of Narrative Prose ComprehensionA Question Answering Method of Exploring Passage ComprehensionSome Results That Address the Assumptions of the Model of ComprehensionComprehension DifficultyRECALL, SUMMARIZATION, AND QUESTION ANSWERINGRecall and SummarizationQuestion AnsweringFinal CommentsReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index
