Preface ix
Contributors xi
Introduction xiii

1. The Heuristic Ascription of Belief 1
Yorick Wilks and Afzal Ballim
2. An ATN-Based Grammar for the Structural Analysis
of Dialogue 24
Ronan Reilly
3. Situation Models and Information Accessibility 53
Daniel Morrow and Steven Greenspan
4. The Everyday Use of Anaphoric Expressions: Implications for the
Mental Models Theory of Text Comprehension 78
Alan Garnham and Jane Oakhill
5. Component Processes of Reference Resolution in Discourse 113
A. J. Sanford
6. Extending Marker-Passing to Microfeatures 141
James A. Hendler
7. SAPIENS: Spreading Activation Processor for Information Encoded
in Network Structures 162
Andrew Ortony and Dean I. Radin
8. Simulated Annealing as a Parsing Technique 182
Geoffrey Sampson
9. Image Compression by Back Propagation: An Example of
Extensional Programming 208
Garrison W. Cottrell, Paul Munro, and David Zipser
10. Programming Neural Nets to Do Spatial Computations 241
David Zipser
11. Neural Representation of Conceptual Knowledge 263
Jermne A. Feldman
Author Index 301
Subject Index 307