Models of interference in sentence processing claim that object relative clauses are harder to process than subject relatives due to interference between the subject and object noun phrase. The interference effect for object relatives at the verb should be more pronounced when the two noun phrases retrieved from memory are similar. To test this, two eye tracking experiments manipulated whether ...

Video, a rich information source, is commonly used for capturing and sharing knowledge in learning systems. However, the unstructured and linear features of video introduce difficulties for end users in accessing the knowledge captured in videos. To extract the knowledge structures hidden in a lengthy, multi-topic lecture video and thus make it easily accessible, we need to first segment the vi...

This paper investigates whether and how natural language processing and data mining techniques can be utilized for locating desired knowledge in a large text collection. This task amounts to finding cue words and phrases indicating the location of knowledge, where the challenge is to establish a methodology that can cope with the diversity of expressions. We examine the feasibility of mining cu...

The purpose of this paper is to identify e ective factors for selecting discourse organization cue phrases in instruction dialogue that signal changes in discourse structure such as topic shifts and attentional state changes. By using a machine learning technique, a variety of features concerning discourse structure, task structure, and dialogue context are examined in terms of their e ectivene...

Two experiments are reported which examine how manipulations of visual attention affect adult speakers’ linguistic choices regarding word order and verb use when describing simple visual scenes. Participants in Experiment 1 were presented with scenes designed to elicit the use of one of two perspective verbs (e.g., “A dog is chasing a man”/“A man is running from a dog”). Speakers’ visual attent...

This paper investigates whether and how natural language processing and data mining techniques can be utilized for locating desired knowledge in a large text collection. This task amounts to finding cue words and phrases indicating the location of knowledge, where the challenge is to establish a methodology that can cope with the diversity of expressions. We examine the feasibility of mining cu...

Two experiments examined the notion that individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) are partially due to differences in search set size in cued recall. High and low WMC individuals performed variants of a cued recall task with either unrelated cue words (Experiment 1) or specific cue phrases (Experiment 2). Across both experiments low WMC individuals recalled fewer items, made more...

Research on assessing craving in laboratory settings often involves inducing and then measuring craving in subjects. Cue-induced craving is studied in laboratory settings using the cue reactivity paradigm, in which drug-related photos, videos, evocative scripts, olfactory cues, and paraphernalia may induce craving. Cue-induced craving evoked by drug-related stimuli could be associated with rela...