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    "pk": 20861,
    "title": "Shaping Explanations: Effects of Questioning on Text Interpretation",
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    "abstract": "<p>Results in cognitive psychology have shown&nbsp;that readers can be steered away from an otherwise&nbsp;plausible interpretation of a story by&nbsp;extra-textual factors such as the source of the&nbsp;text, the stated reading purpose, interruptions&nbsp;and repetition of questions about the text. For&nbsp;instance, successive repetitions of the same&nbsp;question about a given text will often elicit a&nbsp;series of alternative interpretations of the&nbsp;text. This effect cannot be accounted for by&nbsp;established principles of text processing behavior,&nbsp;such as people's preference for cohesive&nbsp;and parsimonious representations of text. This&nbsp;paper presents a computer program called&nbsp;MACARTHUR, which models this behavior by varying&nbsp;the depth and direction of its inference pursuit&nbsp;in response to re-questioning, resulting in a&nbsp;series of markedly different interpretations of&nbsp;the same text. In light of the results, some&nbsp;new experiments are suggested in hopes of arriving&nbsp;at a new principle, beyond cohesion and&nbsp;parsimony, to account for the observed text&nbsp;processing behavior.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Papers",
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            "first_name": "Richard",
            "middle_name": "H.",
            "last_name": "Granger",
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            "institution": "University of California, Irvine",
            "department": ""
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1981-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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