This thesis presents NL-Soar, a detailed computational model of human sentence
comprehension that accounts for a broad range of psycholinguistic phenomena. NL-Soar …

This chapter develops a theory of reanalysis called limited repair parsing. Repair parsers
deal with the problem of local ambiguity in part by modi/)'ing previously built structure when …

Reading is an area of human cognition which has been studied for decades by
psychologists, education researchers, and artificial intelligence researchers. Yet, there still …

In this paper, we present a uniform framework for dealing with errors in natural language
sentences within the context of automated second language teaching. The idea is to use a …

Reading has been studied for decades by a variety of cognitive disciplines, yet no theories
exist which sufficiently describe and explain how people accomplish the complete task of …

Previous approaches to robustness in natural language processing usually treat deviant
input by relaxing grammatical constraints whenever a successful analysis cannot be …

Creative conceptual change involves (a) the construction of new concepts and of coherent
belief systems, or theories, relating these concepts, and (b) the modification and …

Natural language is the primary mode of human communication. Developing a complete
and well-specified computational model of language understanding is a difficult problem …

According to Zenon Pylyshyn, Allen Newell took the high road in psychology by working on
a theory of the mind intended to cover a wide range of cognitive behavior. Both Newell and …

Is the human language understander a collection of modular processes operating with
relative autonomy, or is it a single integrated process? This ongoing debate has polarized …