A cognitive-psychological study on comprehension, memory, and generation of text.

这个项目的目的是澄清人类的理解，记忆和文本生成的认知过程。特别是，在这个项目中，我们重点分析了记叙文的摘要过程。因为这一过程包含了读者对文本的理解、记忆和摘要生成的全部过程。以下是对本项目研究结果的简要描述。摘要过程包括三个主要的子过程：（1）给定文本的意义表征的构建过程，（2）该意义表征中“要点”信息的确定过程，（3）要点信息的连通面表达的生成过程.这三个过程可以用读者的内部策略来表征，包括特殊语言策略和一般问题解决策略。这些策略以形式化算法的形式提出。

The purpose of this project was to clarify the human cognitive processes of comprehension, memory, and generation of text. Especially, in this project, we focused on the analysis of summarization process for narrative text. Because the process includes all of the processes of a reader's understanding, memory, and summary-generation for a given text. Followings are the brief descriptions of the findings in this project.1. The summarization process consists of three main sub-processes; (1) Construction process of the meaning representation of a given text, (2) Determination process of the "gist" information in that meaning representation, and (3) Generation process of the connected surface expression of the gist information.2. The three processes can be characterized by the reader's internal strategies, which include both special linguistic and general problem-solving ones. The strategies were proposed in the form of formal algorithm.