Title:
A Functional Theory of Creative Reading
A Functional Theory of Creative Reading
dc.contributor.author | Moorman, Kenneth Matthew | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ram, Ashwin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2005-06-17T17:57:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2005-06-17T17:57:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1994 | en_US |
dc.description.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. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 299310 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/6707 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | CC Technical Report; GIT-CC-94-01 | en_US |
dc.subject | Artificial intelligence | |
dc.subject | Creativity mechanisms for reading | |
dc.subject | Functional theory of reading | |
dc.subject | Human reasoning | |
dc.subject | Integrated Story Analysis and Creativity | |
dc.subject | ISAAC | |
dc.subject | Natural language understanding systems | |
dc.subject | Reading | |
dc.subject | Reading sub-tasks | |
dc.subject | Simulations of human reasoning | |
dc.subject | Understanding text | |
dc.title | A Functional Theory of Creative Reading | en_US |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.type.genre | Technical Report | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
local.contributor.corporatename | College of Computing | |
local.relation.ispartofseries | College of Computing Technical Report Series | |
relation.isOrgUnitOfPublication | c8892b3c-8db6-4b7b-a33a-1b67f7db2021 | |
relation.isSeriesOfPublication | 35c9e8fc-dd67-4201-b1d5-016381ef65b8 |
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