ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how to construct conceptual graph structures using Arthur C. Graesser’s representational system. Conceptual graph structures may be used to represent specific passages and schemas that embody generic knowledge about the physical world and social world. A conceptual graph structure for a passage includes implicit knowledge in addition to explicit information. The construction of a conceptual graph structure includes three major steps, which are summarized as: segment information into statement nodes, assign each statement node to a node category and interrelate nodes by labeled, directed arcs. The fact that separate statement nodes are created from numerical quantifiers but not linguistic quantifiers is admittedly arbitrary. Statement nodes often embellish other statement nodes. Physical State nodes refer to ongoing states in the physical or social world. Physical events may involve a change in the intensity of a process. The sensory organs provide the vehicle for knowledge to be added to the minds of animate beings.
