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A Functional Theory of Creative Reading
A Functional Theory of Creative Reading
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Moorman, Kenneth Matthew
Ram, Ashwin
Ram, Ashwin
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Abstract
Reading is an area of human cognition which has been studied
for decades by psychologists, education researchers, and
artificial intelligence researchers. Yet, there still does not
exist a theory which accurately describes the complete process.
We believe that these past attempts fell short due to an
incomplete understanding of the overall task of reading;
namely, the complete set of mental tasks a reasoner must
perform to read and the mechanisms that carry out these tasks.
We present a functional theory of the reading process and argue
that it represents a coverage of the task. The theory combines
experimental results from psychology, artificial intelligence,
education, and linguistics, along with the insights we have
gained from our own research. This greater understanding of
the mental tasks necessary for reading will enable new natural
language understanding systems to be more flexible and more
capable than earlier ones. Furthermore, we argue that
creativity is a necessary component of the reading process and
must be considered in any theory or system attempting to
describe it. We present a functional theory of creative
reading and a novel knowledge organization scheme that supports
the creativity mechanisms. The reading theory is currently
being implemented in the ISAAC (Integrated Story Analysis And
Creativity) system, a computer system which reads science
fiction stories.
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1994
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