by Michael G. Dyer Natural language processing (NLP) is an area of research within
Artificial Intelligence (AI) concerned with the comprehension and generation of natural …

This project continues our interdisciplinary research into computational and cognitive
aspects of narrative comprehension. Our ultimate goal is the development of a …

We are engaged in the development of systems capable of analyzing short narrative
messages dealing with a limited domain and extracting the information contained in the …

This paper presents a novel application of argumentation for automated Story
Comprehension (SC). It uses argumentation to develop a computational approach for SC as …

Historically, story understanding systems have depended on a great deal of hand-crafted
knowledge. Natural language understanding systems that use conceptual knowledge …

BACKGROUND Story grammar, which provides the theoreti-cal framework for this study, is
one of many currently held theories of the cognitive repre-sentation of narrative texts. 2 The …

This paper presents a theory of reasoning and argument comprehension currently
implemented in OpEd, a computer system that reads short politico-economic editorials and …

The approach taken to discourse analysis that classifies text types according to isolated
linguistic features is criticized, and an alternative approach to argumentative texts is …

1.0 Introduction For many years, literary scholars, folklorists, anthro-pologists, and others
have been developing a rich pool of analytical techniques for selective critical interpre-tation …

The topic of this book is the theoretical foundations of a theory LSLT--Lexical Semantic
Language Theory-and its implementation in a the system for text analysis and …