Children’s Patterns in Describing Fiction Books

Yejun Wu, Samuel K.W. Chu

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Abstract

This study aims to identify syntactic and semantic description patterns from summaries of fiction books or book chapters created by children. These patterns can be considered as a metadata scheme that describes the main content of a book. Two groups of primary school students in Hong Kong, ages 8–11, were invited to read a Chinese fiction book and an English fiction book and were asked to write a summary. Ten syntactic and semantic description patterns were identified from the summaries. These patterns can be used to enhance the description of fiction books.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)448-459
Number of pages12
JournalCataloging and Classification Quarterly
Volume62
Issue number3-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords

  • children
  • Fiction books
  • metadata
  • pattern
  • summaries

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