Elements of Discourse Understanding

Download or read book Elements of Discourse Understanding written by Aravind K. Joshi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The questions of how human beings produce and comprehend language continue to engage a variety of researchers and scholars, and it is becoming increasingly clear that only interdisciplinary approaches will yield productive answers. This complex issue of discourse processing is the subject of this volume, and the contributors address it from the varying perspectives of cognitive psychology linguistics, and computer science. The chapters provide a fascinating overview of emerging theories in the new discipline of cognitive science. A useful introductory chapter by the editors explains the relationships of chapters to one another and outlines the long-term implications of the work they report.