Zhiqiang Cai

List of John Benjamins publications for which Zhiqiang Cai plays a role.

Articles

Graesser, Arthur C., Shi Feng and Zhiqiang Cai 2017 Two technologies to help adults with reading difficulties improve their comprehensionDevelopmental Perspectives in Written Language and Literacy: In honor of Ludo Verhoeven, Segers, Eliane and Paul van den Broek (eds.), pp. 295–313 | Chapter
A proficient reader is skilled at interpreting and comprehending text at multiple levels of language and discourse. This chapter describes two technologies that are designed to help adult readers who have reading difficulties at various levels. One technology (called AutoTutor) has two computer… read more
Crossley, Scott A., Shi Feng, Zhiqiang Cai and Danielle S. McNamara 2013 Chapter 5. Computer simulations of MRC Psycholinguistic Database word properties: Concreteness, familiarity, and imageabilityVocabulary Knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures, Jarvis, Scott and Michael Daller (eds.), pp. 135–156 | Chapter
This study investigates the potential for computational models informed through automated lexical indices to simulate human ratings of word concreteness, word familiarity, and word imageability. The goal of the study is to provide word information estimates for words with human ratings, thereby… read more
Graesser, Arthur C., Moongee Jeon, Yan Yan and Zhiqiang Cai 2007 Discourse cohesion in text and tutorial dialogueDiscourse, Cognition and Communication, Sanders, Ted J.M. and Leo Lentz (eds.), pp. 199–213 | Article
Discourse cohesion is presumably an important facilitator of comprehension when individuals read texts and hold conversations. This study investigated components of cohesion and language in different types of discourse about Newtonian physics: A textbook, textoids written by experimental… read more