Abduction is an important inference process underlying much of human intelligent activities, including text understanding, plan recognition, disease diagnosis, and physical device diagnosis. In this paper, we describe some problems encountered using abduction to understand text, and present some solutions to overcome these problems. The solutions we propose center around the use of a di erent c...

Abduction is an important inference process underlying much of human intelligent activities, including text understanding, plan recognition, disease diagnosis, and physical device diagnosis. In this paper, we describe some problems encountered using abduction to understand text, and present some solutions to overcome these problems. The solutions we propose center around the use of a different ...

Our psychophysical approach has the goal of explaining the dependence of reading performance on text parameters in terms of our understanding of spatial vision. In this presentation, we will focus on the impact of three attributes of characters (contrast, size and bandwidth), introduce the explanatory concept of the visual span, and discuss implications for text displays.

In this paper, we present the preliminary results of the ongoing research activity we are carrying out in the context of approximate XML query answering when the schemas of the XML documents are available. The method we propose involves a preliminary schema matching process, which automatically identifies the semantic and structural similarities between the schema elements to be used in the sub...

To investigate how parents support children’s learning at an exhibit on evolution, the conversations of 12 families were recorded, transcribed, and coded (6,263 utterances). Children (mean age 9.6 years) and parents visited Explore Evolution, which conveyed current research about the evolution of seven organisms. Families were engaged Portions of this research were presented at the 2009 Biennia...

Research and development of a module for reading explanatory texts based on inquiry methods PISA standardized questions has been carried out in class VIII SMP N 52 Palembang. This study aimed to produce modules that suit the needs teachers students. The research method used was with steps Jolly Bolitho Dick, Carey models which include identification needs, exploration material contextual realiz...

Text Mining is about discovering novel, interesting and useful patterns from textual data. In this paper we discuss several means that introduce background knowledge into unsupervised text mining in order to improve the novelty, the interestingness or the usefulness of the detected patterns. Germane to the different proposals is that they strive for higher abstractions that carry more explanato...

In this paper, we show that the Lexical Functions (LFs) of the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary are well suited for addressing some lexical questions in text generation like collocations and textual phenomena. We first describe LFs and divide them into two subsets: paradigmatic LFs and syntagmatic LFs. In particular, we see how paradigmatic LFs can be used for coreferential relations and de...