We discuss the development of a system for marking several types of reference to facilitate the analysis of reference in discourse. The tool is designed to be used in three applications: generating training data for machine learning of co-reference relations, evaluating theories of referring expression generation and resolution in texts, and developing theories for understanding reference in di...

This paper discusses cognitive and cybernetic theories of human learning and how these can influence the design of multimedia learning environments. We first briefly outline the formalised theories of cognitive flexibility, discourse, activity and conversation from the perspective of the way in which the hypermedia may be semantically structured to facilitate learning. Two instances are then pr...

Identifying Component Discourse Processes Reading—from works to multiple texts (pp. 147-159). Reading is a complex task and it is accomplished by several interactive levels of skills, starting from phonological, lexical and syntactic analyses and extending to propositionalization (Perfetti & Britt, 1995) and intra-sentence integration/discourse-levels (Mason & Just 2004), which involve cognitiv...

Neuroimaging research is providing new types of information and insight about the cortical activity underlying discourse processing. Knowing the intensity and location of the brain activity during discourse comprehension adds significantly to the information provided by behavioral measures alone. The combination of neuroimaging data and behaviorally based discourse theories indicate that discou...

in this article,we briefly analyse cognitive science and cognitive economics. generally, there are two main theories related to cognitive science and brain performance models. first theory which are inspired by computer and artifical intelligence and second the connectionist models. the connectionist theory is the most prevalent in cognitive science now. hayek and north ,the two nobel laureates...

We would like to argue for a uni ed formal theory to represent and allow automated reasoning about both the semantic and the pragmatic aspects of conversational context, particularly the common ground between conversational participants. Central to this theory is the hypothesis that speech act occurrences are recorded in the common ground and can serve as the basis for a model of language proce...

In computational theories of discourse, there are at least three processes presumed to operate under a limited attention constraint of some type: (1) ellipsis interpretation; (2) pronominal anaphora interpretation; and (3) inference of discourse relations between representations A and B of utterances in a discourse, e.g. B motivates A. In each case, the interpretation of the current element B o...

Social media can be conceptualized as an emerging frontier where new forms of social relations causing power differences and other forms of unacceptable social practices develop at the intersection of human collective communicative acts and information technology. This emergence has created a need for considering novel approaches for investigating these emerging phenomena in social media. In th...

In computational theories of discourse, there are at least three processes presumed to operate under a limited attention constraint of some type: (1) ellipsis interpretation; (2) pronominal anaphora interpretation; and (3) inference of discourse relations between representations A and B of utterances in a discourse, e.g. B motivates A. In each case, the interpretation of the current element B o...