Understanding Language Understanding: Computational Models of Reading (Language, Speech, and Communication)

About The Editors -- About The Authors -- Foreword / Walter Kintsch -- 1. Introduction: Toward A Theory Of Reading And Understanding / Ashwin Ram And Kenneth Moorman -- 2. Cognition And Fiction / William J. Rapaport And Stuart C. Shapiro -- 3. Sentence Processing In Understanding: Interaction And Integration Of Knowledge Sources / Kavi Mahesh, Kurt P. Eiselt And Jennifer K. Holbrook -- 4. Capturing The Contents Of Complex Narratives / Eric Domeshek, Eric Jones And Ashwin Ram -- 5. Retrieval From Episodic Memory By Inferencing And Disambiguation / Trent E. Lange And Charles M. Wharton -- 6. A Connectionist Model Of Narrative Comprehension / Mark C. Langston, Tom Trabasso And Joseph P. Magliano -- 7. Importance Of Text Structure In Everyday Reading / Bonnie J.f. Meyer -- 8. A Theory Of Questions And Question Asking / Ashwin Ram -- 9. Semantic Correspondence Theory / Justin Peterson And Dorrit Billman -- 10. Creativity In Reading: Understanding Novel Concepts / Kenneth Moorman And Ashwin Ram -- 11. On The Intersection Of Story Understanding And Learning / Michael T. Cox And Ashwin Ram -- 12. Information Extraction As A Stepping Stone Toward Story Understanding / Ellen Riloff -- 13. Text Processing And Narrative Worlds / Richard J. Gerrig -- 14. Computational Models Of Reading And Understanding: What Good Are They? / Charles R. Fletcher -- Index. Edited By Ashwin Ram And Kenneth Moorman. A Bradford Book. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.