Validation of causal bridging inferences in discourse understanding.

By Murray Singer, Michael Halldorson, Jeffrey C. Lear, Peter Andrusiak. 1992

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ReCoRD: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Commonsense Reading Comprehension (2018, background): “Causal Reasoning : the causal bridging inference invoked between two events, which is validated against common sense (Singer et al., 1992; Roemmele et al., 2011).”
XCOPA: A Multilingual Dataset for Causal Commonsense Reasoning (2020, background): “Contrary to textual entailment, commonsense reasoning must bridge between premises and possible hypotheses with world knowledge that is not explicit in text (Singer et al., 1992).”
Validation in Reading Comprehension (2013, background): “Validation processes then assess the plausibility of tentative links between current ideas and retrieved information (Schroeder et al., 2008; Singer et al., 1992).”
Getting a Picture that Is Both Accurate and Stable: Situation Models and Epistemic Validation. (2008, background): “, 2006), false implicit premises (enthymemes) of causal relationships (Singer et al., 1992), violations of logical rules (Lea et al.”
Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension. (1994, background): “There is extensive evidence that causal explanations of actions, events, and states play a central role in our understanding of narrative (Black & Bower, 1980; Bloom et al., 1990; Bower et al., 1979; Fletcher, 1986; Graesser, 1981; Rumelhart, 1975; Schank, 1986; Singer, 1990; Trabasso & Sperry, 1985”
Scientific Literacy: The Role of Goal-Directed Reading and Evaluation in Understanding Scientific Information (2014, background): “For instance, Singer et al. (1992) gave participants short passages with sentences that were either causally consistent (e.g., Dorothy poured the water on the bonfire –”
Predication (2001, unknown): “Together with the examples presented in Table 3, the analysis of the stimulus materials from Singer et al. (1992) suggests that predication can give a satisfactory account of causal inferences in comprehension.”
Moral chronicity and social information processing: Tests of a social cognitive approach to the moral personality (2006, background): “Colby and Damon (1995), Colby and Damon (1994), Colby, Kohlberg, Gibbs, and Lieberman (1983), Gernsbacher (1990), Grabenstetter et al. (2002), Hartshorne and May (1928– 1932),ohlberg (1969), Kohlberg, 1971, Kohlberg (1984), Mischel (1968), Narvaez (1999), Rest, Narvaez, Thoma, and Bebeau (2000), Res”
Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Commonsense Causal Reasoning (2011, background): “Singer et al. (1992) proposes a role for causal bridging inferences , where individuals invoke a statement that bridges the two events into a causal relation, and then validate this bridging statement against commonsense knowledge.”