The goal of this project was to identify the cognitive mechanisms and conceptual features
that underlie humorous text. Given that there have been very few attempts to understand …

Corpus-based methods will be found at the heart of many language and speech processing
systems. This book provides an in-depth introduction to these technologies through chapters …

This investigation examined the sources of knowledge that persons use to devise plans to
reach social goals. Specific episodes, ensembles of episodes, hypothetical episodes, role …

The term information state of a dialogue represents the information necessary to distinguish
it from other dialogues, representing the cumulative additions from previous actions in the …

The purpose of this book is to explore meaningful integrations of developmental processes
and functioning with conceptualizations of" context"--a term traditionally denoting physical …

This paper describes a dialogue act tagging scheme developed for the purpose of providing
finer-grained quantitative dialogue metrics for comparing and evaluating DARPA …

Dialogue-based human-AI collaboration can revolutionize collaborative problem-solving,
creative exploration, and social support. To realize this goal, the development of automated …

We investigate the semantic foundations of a method for modeling agents as entities with a
mental state which was suggested by McCarthy and by Newell. Our goals are to formalize …

Reading is an area of human cognition which has been studied for decades by
psychologists, education researchers, and artificial intelligence researchers. Yet, there still …

In Relevance: Communication and Cognition, we outline a new approach to the study of
human communication, one based on a general view of human cognition. Attention and …