The research reported here was designed to investigate the critical role played by certain factors implicated in the mental representation of text, and to establish whether their role varies significantly as a function of developmental age. Specifically, it was decided to analyse, in a sample of 180 subjects was selected from three different age groups (7, 10 and 18 years of age respectively), ...

In this paper we describe a highly parallel method for extracting inferences from text. The method is based on a marker-propagation algorithm that establishes semantic paths between knowledge base concepts. The paper presents the structure of the system, the marker-propagation algorithm, and results that show a large degree of parallelism.

Text coherence evaluation becomes a vital and lovely task in Natural Language Processing subfields, such as text summarization, question answering, text generation and machine translation. Existing methods like entity-based and graph-based models are engaging with nouns and noun phrases change role in sequential sentences within short part of a text. They even have limitations in global coheren...

The problem of deciding what was implied by a written text, of “reading between the lines’ ’ is the problem of inference. To extract proper inferences from a text requires a great deal of general knowledge on the part of the reader. Past approaches have often postulated an algorithm tuned to process a particular kind of knowledge structure (such as a script, or a plan). An alternative, unified ...

The Computerized Comprehensibility System (CCS) provides an automated copy editing function, generating a "mark-up" of a draft of a technical document by simulating the simpler comprehension processes of a human reader, and then criticizing the text when these simple processes cannot successfully comprehend the material. A key CCS function is criticizing the coherence of the material by trackin...