In psychology, many of theories of skill acquisition have had great success in addressing the fine details of learning relatively simple tasks, but can they scale up to complex tasks that are more typical of human learning in the real world? In this paper we describe production composition, a theory of skill acquisition that combines aspects of the theories forwarded by Anderson (1982) and Newe...

We examine adjective-noun (AN) composition in the task of recognizing textual entailment (RTE). We analyze behavior of ANs in large corpora and show that, despite conventional wisdom, adjectives do not always restrict the denotation of the nouns they modify. We use natural logic to characterize the variety of entailment relations that can result from AN composition. Predicting these relations d...