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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Narrative text"”.
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A temporal analysis of natural language narrative text
Written English texts in the form of narratives often describe events that occur in definite chronological sequence. Understanding the concept of time in such texts is an essential aspect of text comprehension and forms the basis for answering time related questions pertaining to the source text. …
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Emergency Medical Service EMR-Driven Concept Extraction From Narrative Text
… patient-specific information from medical narratives. These concept value pairs automatically populates the fields of an EMR form which could be reviewed and modified manually if needed. This report can then be reused for various medical and billing purposes related to the patient.
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Adult Age Differences in Processing Narrative Text: Managing Character Representations
Understanding a narrative situation depends on keeping track of multiple characters that enter and exit dynamically as the plot unfolds. Because there has been no systematic investigation of age differences in the ability to manage multiple characters during narrative comprehension, this project …
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Picturebooks as Visual Literacy: The Influence of Illustrations on Second-Graders' Comprehension of Narrative Text
… following research question: "How does change in text type as text contains more illustrations and fewer words influence second-graders' comprehension of narrative text?" Eleven second-graders read three texts each and completed a series of oral reading comprehension tasks. The three text types …
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Building a narrative text-world through deixis and modality: a contrastive study of Spanish and English
… personal and modal perspective in spoken narratives. It is hoped that the results will reveal the languages’ preferred narrative styles in terms of how they use deixis and modality to build a narrative ‘text-world’. TextWorld Theory (Werth 1999; Gavins 2007) is both a theory and a method …
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Different or similar: patterns of lexical cohesion in Chinese non-narrative text and their applications in the study of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language-A corpus-based contrastive study
… of lexical, cohesive devices in Chinese argument texts by two groups of writers: native speakers and learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (hereafter CFL). The purposes of the research are twofold: first to inform instruction in the writing of extended Chinese texts to CFL learners and …
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Comparing the Effects of Narrative and Expository Texts on Teacher Instruction and Child Processing in Junior Guided Reading
Narrative text has historically been used to teach children to read. Increased advocacy for the use of expository text for reading instruction in junior classrooms has been matched by an increase in the publication of this material. However there is little research evidence about how teachers are …
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The specialisation of historical knowledge in one content area in four Grade 7 Social Sciences textbooks under CAPS
… in one chapter in four Grade 7 Social Science textbooks produced under the CAPS curriculum. The four textbooks selected are from two publishers, and the interest was in similarities and differences within and between publishers. Two central categories of analysis were used: the General …
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‘ratio : an experiment in collaboration and generating narrative
… script through their preferred mediums; written text and visual art. The final script document consists of both a written text and visual narrative text, asking the reader to create and interpret the story through both mediums.
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The narrative arc : exploring the linguistic structure of narrative
… have theorized on the building blocks of narrative. Until now, a reliable methodology to quantitatively investigate narrative structure has not been unavailable. The Narrative Arc Theory (NAT) was developed to investigate whether or not a common structure existed for narratives. To do …
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An overview of Stiêng grammar
… of Vietnam, was prepared from analysis of narrative text material and without the aid of a native speaker of Stiêng. It is, therefore limited in depth as far as the semantic properties of Stiêng are concerned. </p> <p> The overview is presented in a restricted tagmemic model, describing …
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Psychological therapists' narratives of spirituality within the context of their clinical practice
The qualitative research study used narrative inquiry to explore psychological therapists’ understanding of spirituality within the context of their clinical practice, and how their understanding reflects their spiritual sentiments, purposes, valuations and judgments. Narrative interviews were …
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Towards unified biomedical modeling with subgraph mining and factorization algorithms
… mining and factorization algorithms to clinical narrative text, ICU physiologic time series and computational genomics. These algorithms aims to build clinical models that improve both prediction accuracy and interpretability, by exploring relational information in different biomedical data …
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A prototype fact sheet designed for the development of a forensic computerized information system at Valkenberg and Lentegeur Hospitals
… choice answer-options and semi-structured narrative text.
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The Hindsight Bias: Judgment Task Differentiation
… confidence ratings. Utilizing a within-subjects, narrative text paradigm, the proposed non-unitary approach was tested by investigating whether the effects of outcome congruency on hindsight bias results were moderated by the type of judgment task. Participants read stories, rated their confidence …
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The body of letters in Proust's Albertine Disparue
… i.e., how they relate to the structure of the narrative text. Subsequently, I examine how the interpretation of these letters informs the hero's understanding of language. "Albertine disparue" raises questions about the relationship of words and their meaning, and about writing and its ability …
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Story understanding in Genesis : exploring automatic plot construction through commonsense reasoning
… must understand stories as well. Casting narrative text in an information-rich representation affords Al research platforms, such as the Genesis system, the capacity to understand the events of stories individually. To understand a story, however, a program must understand not just events, …
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Disponibilidad y riqueza léxica en un grupo de estudiantes universitarios italianos de ELE
… richness, which required the writing of a short narrative text that was examined on the basis of standard indexes (Read, 2000). The experiment aims to be an innovative project which deals with the complex phenomenon of lexical competence, combining two complementary methodologies capable of …
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Gendered readings and interpretation in selected short stories by Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Luisa Valenzuela
… readers of twentieth-century fiction encounter texts in which a male-identified reading is subverted, critical work tends to focus its attention only rarely upon the implications of such a subversion for the male characters in such texts. Many short stories by Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri …
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Investigating Intercultural Communication Competence In Narrative Texts Of English Learners
… fourth and fifth grade English Learners through narrative text composition within the researcher's English Learner classroom environment. This mixed-methods research was conducted as a response to the need for curriculum changes in preparing EL pre-service educators within the higher education …
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