Publications

Publication details [#14654]

Wolfe, Michael B. W., M. E. Schreiner, Bob Rehder, Darrell Laham, Peter W. Foltz, Walter Kintsch and Thomas K. Landauer. 1998. Learning From Text: Matching Readers and Texts by Latent Semantic Analysis. Discourse Processes 25 (2) : 309–336.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

background information | computer simulation | knowledge representation | learning

Place, Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study shows how the Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) methodology can be used to maximize learning from text by exploiting the match between the text information and the reader's background knowledge of the topic at hand.