APPLICATION OF LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS FOR ASSESSMENT OF COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE AND EXPOSITORY TEXTS | Sibirskiy Psikhologicheskiy Zhurnal – Siberian Journal of Psychology. 2009. № 33.

APPLICATION OF LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS FOR ASSESSMENT OF COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE AND EXPOSITORY TEXTS

The paper describes an application of latent semantic analysis (LSA) as a method for computer assessment of text comprehension. Comparative research of assessments of comprehension of narrative and expository texts for LSA and experts is conducted.

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латентный семантический анализ, понимание текста, компьютерное тестирование, когнитивное моделирование, обработка дискурса, нарративный текст, экспозиторный текст, latent semantic analysis, text comprehension, computer assessment, cognitive modeling, discourse processing, narrative text, expository text

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Name	Organization	E-mail
Kuritsin S.V.		kuritsin_s_v@mail.ru
Voronin V.M.		voronin_v_m@mail.ru

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