Bestgen Yves

Yves Bestgen

Research fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research

Address

Department of Psychology
Université catholique de Louvain
Place du Cardinal Mercier 10
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

Tel. +32-10-47 30 05
Fax. +32-10-47 37 74
E-Mail : yves.bestgen@uclouvain.be
URL Personal webpage

Degree:
1992: PhD in Psychology, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)

Research interests:
Psycholinguistics
Discourse production and comprehension
Discourse markers
Improving texts
Quantitative analysis of texts

Selected publications:
Bestgen, Y., & Vonk, W. (1995). The role of temporal segmentation markers in discourse processing. Discourse Processes, 19, 385-406.

Bestgen, Y., & Vonk, W. (2000). Temporal adverbials as segmentation markers in discourse comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 42, 74-87.

Bestgen, Y., & Dupont, V. (2003). The construction of spatial situation models during reading Psychological Research, 67, 209-218.

Dupont, V., & Bestgen, Y. (2006). Learning from technical documents: The role of intermodal referring expressions. Human Factor, 48, 257-264.

Bestgen, Y. (2006). Improving text segmentation using Latent Semantic Analysis: A Reanalysis of Choi, Wiemer-Hastings and Moore ( 2001). Computational Linguistics, 32,5-12.

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