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Takshak Desai – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Reading comprehension can be analyzed from three points of view: Semantics, Assessment, and Cognition. Here, Semantics refers to the task of identifying discourse relations in text. Assessment involves utilizing these relations to obtain meaningful question-answer pairs. Cognition means categorizing questions according to their difficulty or…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Questioning Techniques, Language Processing
Sharp, Rebecca Reynolds – ProQuest LLC, 2017
We address the challenging task of "computational natural language inference," by which we mean bridging two or more natural language texts while also providing an explanation of how they are connected. In the context of question answering (i.e., finding short answers to natural language questions), this inference connects the question…
Descriptors: Computation, Natural Language Processing, Inferences, Questioning Techniques
Al Kohlani, Fatima A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study examines the function of discourse markers in Arabic newspaper opinion articles. In this study, discourse markers are not only connecting- words that contribute to the cohesion of text, but they are also crucial tools for achieving communicative act in the text. These expressions that come from different grammatical classes and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Sentences, Text Structure, Semantics