Abstract Free rides and observational advantages occur in visualizations when they reveal facts that must be inferred from an alternative representation. Understanding whether these concepts correspond to cognitive is important: do facilitate information extraction, saving the ‘deductive cost’ of making inferences? This paper presents first evaluations free sets compared text. We found that, fo...

This thesis introduces the applied notion of textual entailment as a generic empirical task that captures major semantic inferences across many applications. Textual entailment addresses semantic inference as a direct mapping between language expressions and abstracts the common semantic inferences as needed for text based Natural Language Processing applications. We define the task and describ...

There is considerable effort being devoted to mining information from medical and scientific literature, in particular, from Medline abstracts and from full-text articles. Such information is being used, for example, to reconstruct biological pathways, identify pathogenic mechanisms and, importantly, to identify functional relationships that can be used to predict disease onset and its course t...

Inference generation and comprehension monitoring are essential elements of successful reading comprehension. While both improve with age development, little is known about when how children make inferences monitor their during the process itself. Over two experiments, we monitored eye movements groups (age 8–13 years) as they read short passages answered questions that tapped local (Experiment...

There are difficulties faced by students in learning reading of the narrative text, such as to find details, translating new words, finding main ideas, and making inferences. This research was conducted see effect Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) on comprehension text applying ‘preview’ for brainstorming, ‘click clunk’ ‘get gist’ ‘wrap up’ It is a quasi-experimental with experimental contr...

Recent work in the area of interactive narrative has sought to develop systems that automatically produce experiences for a user that are understood as stories. Much of this work, however, has focused on the structural aspects of narrative rather than the process of narrative comprehension undertaken by users. Motivated by approaches in natural language discourse generation where explicit model...

s 2 FMRI signal when people generate causal inferences during stories. Although the majority of psycholinguistic research concerns how people process words or sentences, the bulk of human communication occurs at the level of discourse. Some language comprehension processes may be far more evident as people comprehend complex discourse than when they comprehend words or sentences. For instance, ...

Cognitive-linguistic research on metonymy has argued cogently that is a crucial factor guaranteeing discourse coherence. Barcelona (forthcoming) includes detailed study of the metonymies guiding pragmatic inferences claimed to be invited by reading brief text. The analysis fragment, though internally consistent, based my own close In paper I report qualitative investigating whether native speak...