BACKGROUND Semantic and inferencing abilities have not been fully examined in children with communication difficulties. AIMS To investigate the inferential and semantic abilities of children with communication difficulties using newly designed tasks. METHODS & PROCEDURES Children with different types of communication disorder were compared with each other and with three groups of typically ...

Conversational ease-based reasoning (CCBR) a form of interactive case-based reasoning where users input a partial problem description (in text). The CCBR system responds with ranked solution display, which lists the solutions of stored cases whose problem descriptions best match the user’s, and a ranked question display, which lists the unanswered questions in these cases. Users interact with t...

There is a growing recognition that part-whole hierarchies are a very general form of representation, widely used by humans in commonsense reasoning. This paper develops a terminological logic, and related inference mechanisms for representing and reasoning about composite concepts and individuals. A basic terminological logic language is extended with constructs for describing composite concep...

High school students must read to learn curriculum, yet few interventions are proven substantially help close literacy gaps for older with reading deficits. Students large deficits particularly benefit from explicit, systematic instruction of emphasizing the structure language (i.e., phonology, orthography, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics), aspects cognition problem solving, attention...