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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
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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
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dc.type.genre Technical Report
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