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Landauer, Thomas K. – Discourse Processes, 1999
Contributes to communication theory and research by adding to a discussion of a computational model called latent semantic analysis (LSA). Argues that LSA does not handle all aspects of language processing, but offers a biologically and psychologically plausible mechanistic explanation of the acquisition, induction, and representation of verbal…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing

Graesser, Arthur C.; Franklin, Stanley P. – Discourse Processes, 1990
Describes the seven main components of QUEST, a cognitive model of question answering that attempts to simulate the answers adults produce when they answer different types of questions, both closed class and open class. Illustrates how the model could be applied to different types of knowledge structures, including causal networks, goal…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing

Golding, Jonathan M.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1990
Tests the QUEST model of question answering in two experiments. Examines which components of QUEST could predict good answers to why-questions and how-questions in the context of short stories. Supports the validity of arc-search procedures and structural distance for both question categories. Finds only partial support for number of information…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing

Graesser, Arthur C.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1990
Tests the QUEST model of question answering in naturalistic settings and in settings with complex pragmatic constraints: telephone surveys, business interactions, filmed interviews, and interviews on popular television programs. Finds that QUEST explains most of the answers in these contexts and virtually all of the answers that refer to the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing

Chernov, Ghelly V. – Language and Speech, 1979
Suggests that cumulative dynamic analysis of the semantic structure of the incoming message is subconsciously performed by interpreters. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Deep Structure, Interpreters
Scharenborg, Odette; Norris, Dennis; ten Bosch, Louis; McQueen, James M. – Cognitive Science, 2005
Although researchers studying human speech recognition (HSR) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) share a common interest in how information processing systems (human or machine) recognize spoken language, there is little communication between the two disciplines. We suggest that this lack of communication follows largely from the fact that…
Descriptors: Models, Speech Communication, Computational Linguistics, Oral Language
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Ed. – 1991
One of a series of semi-annual reports, this publication contains 18 articles which report the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instruments for its investigation, and practical applications. Articles are as follows: "The Emergence of Native-Language Phonological Influences in Infants: A Perceptual Assimilation…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Communication Research, Higher Education, Infants
Stacks, Don W.; Melson, William H. – 1987
Research shows that information received by one brain hemisphere (e.g., auditory messages entering the right ear) is processed and transferred to the other, interpretation being a combination of right and left brain processing, with high intensity messages shifting control from the left to the right brain. If information is received by one…
Descriptors: Advertising, Auditory Discrimination, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Communication Research

Lysaught, Jerome P. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1984
Surveys communications theory and discusses its application to educational organizations. Topics examined include definitions of communication, the evolution of communication models, concepts of language and semantics, interpersonal communication, and organizational communication. Finally, analytic techniques and conceptual frameworks are…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research, Educational Administration
Stacks, Don W. – 1989
Based on a prior model on modularity of the brain, a new modular model of intrapersonal communication was developed which focuses on brain processing, encompassing both the structures and the functions of those structures in the creation of messages. The modular mind is a bio-social model of communication which presupposes a relationship between…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Structures, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Stacks, Don W. – 1983
Various communication studies have revealed the existence of a "preverbal" stage of communication consisting of centers within the brain that exists in an innate form or a form preprogrammed for future information acquired from the environment through experience (socialization). Such centers serve to prepare the individual for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Interpersonal Communication
Elman, Jeffrey L.; McClelland, James L. – 1983
Research efforts to model speech perception in terms of a processing system in which knowledge and processing are distributed over large numbers of highly interactive--but computationally primative--elements are described in this report. After discussing the properties of speech that demand a parallel interactive processing system, the report…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research
Goss, Blaine – 1982
Listening is a crucial element in the communication process. To date, however, research efforts have been unsuccessful in identifying the proper role that listening should play in the building of communication theory. To be a legitimate part of the communication process, listening must be placed in a conceptual framework similar to those found in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation
Goodman, Bradley A. – 1986
In order to build robust natural language processing systems that can detect and recover from miscommunication, the investigation of how people communicate and how they recover from problems in communication described in this artificial intelligence report focused on reference problems which a listener may have in determining what or whom a…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Coherence