We discuss a model of argument understanding that focuses on the reasoning, thinking, and
learning that occurs when two people argue in both social and academic situations. We …

ELI English Language Interpreter is a natural language parsing program currently used by
several story understanding systems. ELI differs from most other parsers in that it produces …

Description/Abstract Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the computerized approach to
analyzing text that is based on both a set of theories and a set of technologies. And, being a …

This dissertation describes a theory of memory representation, organization, and processing
for in-depth understanding of complex narrative texts. Complicated texts require that many …

This book explores the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human communication,
focusing on narrative as its distinctive dimension. Within a framework of continuity with both …

The main concern in this work is the illustration of models for natural language processing,
and the discussion of their role in the development of computational studies of language …

In a recent review of the story understanding literature, Tom Trabasso and I (Stein &
Trabasso, 1982a) described some of the strengths and weaknesses of current story …

Teachers and librarians often lament that students who are asked to sum-marize or take
notes from expository material copy information instead of or-ganizing it. This problem may …

This chapter begins with a discussion of studies on knowledge and the processing of
narrative text. It focuses upon the role of knowledge in processing expository text, drawing …

Four experiments examined the conceptual organization of narrative passages and the
extent to which these representations were explanatory in a variety of experimental tasks …