Good readers ask themselves questions during reading. Our goal is to scaffold this self-questioning strategy automatically to help children in grades 1-3 understand informational text. In previous work, we showed that instruction for self-questioning can be generated for narrative text. This paper tests the generality of that approach by applying it to informational text. We describe the modifi...

In discussing the state-of-art in machine translation (MT) in the U.S.S.R., three aspects may be considered: theoretical, practical and informational. The theoretical aspect includes the principal questions of linguistic theory associated with MT, the practical aspect is devoted to the implemented systems, and the informational aspect covers incorporation of MT into the operating informational ...

The notion of "consent" is frequently referred to as "informed consent" to emphasise the informational component of a valid consent. This article considers aspects of that informational component. One misuse of the language of informed consent is highlighted. Attention is then directed to some features of the situation in which consent would not have been offered had certain information been di...

This article describes the automatic processing of medical texts in order to extract important patient characteristics, thus turning the free text description into a structured internal representation. Shallow text analysis is implemented due to the medical language complexity. The paper sketches the information extraction process and discusses the role of domain knowledge in text analysis. The...