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On Understanding Understanding
Qualitative Inquiry, 1999The phenomenon of understanding lies at the heart of the qualitative inquiry enterprise. Drawing on the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, this article discusses the following four conditions under which understanding unfolds: (a) the difference between knowing and understanding; (b) understanding as learning rather than reading; (c ...
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Understanding understanding poetry
Computers and the Humanities, 1977This paper resulted from a Modern Language Association panel on the study of literature with computers. The letter which invited me to join that panel suggested that I explain either (1) what the English question-answering system on which I am working at IBM would "do to" Donne's Valediction or (2) what an ideal, future version of our system might do ...
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Understanding ‘sensorimotor understanding’
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2009Sensorimotor theories understand perception to be a process of active, exploratory engagement with the environment, mediated by the possession and exercise of a certain body of knowledge concerning sensorimotor dependencies. This paper aims to characterise that exercise, and to show that it places constraints upon the content of sensorimotor knowledge ...
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Understanding Speech Understanding
1975The perception of segments of speech one or two phonemes long is now quite well understood. This is because listeners rather readily accept the sort of experimental situation where they are asked simply to identify brief utterances, not always meaningful words in their language.
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Understanding Language Understanding
1999The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of reading, with contributions from computer science, psychology, and philosophy. This book highlights cutting-edge research relevant to the building of a computational model of reading comprehension, as in the processing and understanding of a natural language text or story.
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