LDA method in psychological assessment of text comprehension
The problem of understanding texts and methods of assessing it is one of the fundamental for modern psychology, pedagogy, linguistics. At the moment, there are a large number of attempts to develop a method for assessing the understanding of texts, which would reflect an objective picture of the internalization of the material of the text by the reader, and at the same time would be suitable for standardization and application on a wide range of texts of different content and structure, if possible with minimal expenditure of resources of the evaluator and the reader himself. This article reveals modern approaches to assessing text understanding, their advantages and disadvantages, and formulates a new promising method for assessing text understanding, based on the Dirichlet Latent Placement model. This method then goes through a validity study through a comparison of the results of its application and the most commonly used modern methods for assessing text understanding, a conclusion is made about its applicability in real conditions and the prospects for use in a range of applied problems.