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Understanding language understanding : computational models of reading /

The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of reading, with contributions from computer science, psychology, and philosophy. This book highlights cutting-edge research relevant to the building of a computational model of reading comprehension, as in the processing and understanding of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ram, Ashwin, Moorman, Kenneth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
©1999
Colección:Language, speech, and communication.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About the Editors
  • About the Authors
  • Foreword / Walter Kintsch
  • 1. Introduction: Toward a Theory of Reading and Understanding / Ashwin Ram and Kenneth Moorman
  • 2. Cognition and Fiction / William J. Rapaport and Stuart C. Shapiro
  • 3. Sentence Processing in Understanding: Interaction and Integration of Knowledge Sources / Kavi Mahesh, Kurt P. Eiselt and Jennifer K. Holbrook
  • 4. Capturing the Contents of Complex Narratives / Eric Domeshek, Eric Jones and Ashwin Ram
  • 5. Retrieval from Episodic Memory by Inferencing and Disambiguation / Trent E. Lange and Charles M. Wharton
  • 6. A Connectionist Model of Narrative Comprehension / Mark C. Langston, Tom Trabasso and Joseph P. Magliano
  • 7. Importance of Text Structure in Everyday Reading / Bonnie J.F. Meyer
  • 8. A Theory of Questions and Question Asking / Ashwin Ram
  • 9. Semantic Correspondence Theory / Justin Peterson and Dorrit Billman
  • 10. Creativity in Reading: Understanding Novel Concepts / Kenneth Moorman and Ashwin Ram
  • 11. On the Intersection of Story Understanding and Learning / Michael T. Cox and Ashwin Ram
  • 12. Information Extraction as a Stepping Stone toward Story Understanding / Ellen Riloff
  • 13. Text Processing and Narrative Worlds / Richard J. Gerrig
  • 14. Computational Models of Reading and Understanding: What Good Are They? / Charles R. Fletcher
  • Index.