This paper reports on a next step in a line o f research taking the perspective that modelling as an activity is a ‘constrained conversation’. We focus on concrete communication situations in context o f (enterprise) modelling sessions, with special attention to the involvement o f ‘novice modellers’. We present some theoretical notions that are helpful in understanding why modelling performed ...

What I tell you three times is true LEWIS CARROLL Introduction In the familiar two-person game "Guess a Number", the first player chooses a number c in a certain set S, and the second player tries to find the secret number, by asking a few questions, to which the first player can only answer yes or no. Here, one might correctly object that since 1 is the only odd number in S that is also smalle...

Why is there the “top level” in Clarion? Cognitively speaking, we need to capture the explicit knowledge that humans do exhibit (e.g., what they express when they verbalize). The existence of such knowledge is well established, as the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge has been amply demonstrated (see, e.g., Reber 1989, Stadler and Frensch 1998, Sun et al 2005). Therefore it ne...

BACKGROUND Failure to adhere to standard item-writing guidelines may render examination questions easier or more difficult than intended. Item complexity describes the cognitive skill level required to obtain a correct answer. Higher cognitive examination items promote critical thinking and are recommended to prepare students for clinical training. This study evaluated faculty-authored examinat...

Contact center agents typically respond to email queries from customers by selecting predefined answer templates that relate to the questions present in the customer query. In this paper we present a technique to automatically select the answer templates corresponding to a customer query email. Given a set of query-response email pairs we find the associations between the actual questions and a...

We present NewsQA, a challenging machine comprehension dataset of over 100,000 question-answer pairs. Crowdworkers supply questions and answers based on a set of over 10,000 news articles from CNN, with answers consisting in spans of text from the corresponding articles. We collect this dataset through a fourstage process designed to solicit exploratory questions that require reasoning. A thoro...