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Reconstructing Readability: Recent Developments and Recommendations in the Analysis of Text Difficulty
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Benjamin, Rebekah George – Educational Psychology Review, 2012
Largely due to technological advances, methods for analyzing readability have increased significantly in recent years. While past researchers designed hundreds of formulas to estimate the difficulty of texts for readers, controversy has surrounded their use for decades, with criticism stemming largely from their application in creating new texts…
Descriptors: Readability, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Processes
On Evaluating Human Problem Solving of Computationally Hard Problems
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Carruthers, Sarah; Stege, Ulrike – Journal of Problem Solving, 2013
This article is concerned with how computer science, and more exactly computational complexity theory, can inform cognitive science. In particular, we suggest factors to be taken into account when investigating how people deal with computational hardness. This discussion will address the two upper levels of Marr's Level Theory: the computational…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Computation, Difficulty Level, Computer Science
Recursion and the Competence/Performance Distinction in AGL Tasks
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Lobina, David J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
The term "recursion" is used in at least four distinct theoretical senses within cognitive science. Some of these senses in turn relate to the different levels of analysis described by David Marr some 20 years ago; namely, the underlying competence capacity (the "computational" level), the performance operations used in real-time processing (the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Competence
Origine et developpement des industries de la langue (Origin and Development of Language Utilities). Publication K-8.
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L'Homme, Marie-Claude – 1988
The evolution of "language utilities," a concept confined largely to the francophone world and relating to the uses of language in computer science and the use of computer science for languages, is chronicled. The language utilities are of three types: (1) tools for language development, primarily dictionary databases and related tools;…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science, Foreign Countries
Cellular Automata and the Humanities.
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Gallo, Ernest – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1994
The use of cellular automata to analyze several pre-Socratic hypotheses about the evolution of the physical world is discussed. These hypotheses combine characteristics of both rigorous and metaphoric language. Since the computer demands explicit instructions for each step in the evolution of the automaton, such models can reveal conceptual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Science Education, Computer Software, Discourse Analysis
Linguistics in the Study of Information and Intelligence. Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Appendix 4-J.
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Wasow, Thomas – 1987
Stanford University's new Symbolic Systems Program is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program focusing on understanding the nature of intelligent behavior. It brings together the disciplines of cognitive psychology, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence, philosophy, and linguistics in a newly emerging field of research concerned…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Curriculum, Computer Science, Correlation