Cognitive Science articles from October 1998

Cognitive Science archives from October 1998

The Representation and Processing of Coreference in Discourse.
October 1, 1998... The phenomenon of coreference--where two linguistic expressions refer to the same thing--is a central topic in attempts to understand the meaning and structure of language. This is tree both for disciplines that attempt to model knowledge of...

Distributional Information: A Powerful Cue for Acquiring Syntactic Categories.
October 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION In the first years of life, human infants routinely acquire language from a relatively noisy and partial body of evidence. Yet, from a computational point of view, there has been little progress in explaining how this feat...

On the Role of Mathematics in Explaining the Material World: Mental Models for Proportional Reasoning.
October 1, 1998... Mathematics plays a central role in modern science. It provides leverage for understanding the material world and for making predictions about worlds that have yet to be experienced. It is an age-old question why mathematics, a self-contained...

Pertinence Generation in Radiological Diagnosis: Spreading Activation and the Nature of Expertise.
October 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION Problem solving consists of finding a path that gradually reduces the gap between a current state and a goal state (Newell & Simon, 1972). However, in diagnosis the goal state is not given and must be identified first by...