Toward a Model of Acquiring Procedures from Text

The processes of acquiring procedures from text are important to understand for both practical and theoretical reasons. This paper outlines a theory of procedure acquisition that is based on empirical and theoretical work on the value of production-system representations of procedural knowledge. The...

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Main Authors: Bovair, Susan, Kieras, David E
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ACQUISITION
COGNITION
DOCUMENTS
Humanities and History
INSTRUCTIONS
PE61153N
PRODUCTION
Psychology
TEXT PROCESSING
THEORY
WUNR667543
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Summary:The processes of acquiring procedures from text are important to understand for both practical and theoretical reasons. This paper outlines a theory of procedure acquisition that is based on empirical and theoretical work on the value of production-system representations of procedural knowledge. The key process in acquiring procedures from text is thus constructing an adequate set of production rules from the textual input. The existing empirical literature is interpreted and criticized within this framework. Two general conclusions are that the amount of research on text that is intended to convey procedures is much less than the topic deserves, and future research needs to more precisely distinguish the different processes involved in acquiring procedures from text. Keywords: Text processing, Instructions, Procedure acquisition.