Michael T. Cox is a postdoctoral fellow in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1996. Interests include case-based reasoning, planning, understanding, introspection, and learning. More specifically, he is interested in how goals interact with and influence these broader cognitive processes. His current address is: Computer Science Department. Carnegie Mellon University. 5000 Forbes Av. Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891. (mcox@cs.cmu.edu, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mcox).
Eric Domeshek is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Northwestern University, and a member of the Institute for the Learning Sciences. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1992. His research interests include artificial intelligence and cognitive science, focusing on case-based reasoning, representation design, human-computer systems, and educational applications. He is especially interested in rich media, such as video and graphics, and complex cognitive processes, such as design. His current address is: Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, 1890 Maple Ave., Suite 300, Evanston, IL 60201. (domeshek@ils.nwu.edu, http://www.ils.nwu.edu/~domeshek).
Kurt Eiselt is the Assistant Dean of the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a member of the Cognitive Science faculty, and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology. He received his PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 1989. His research interests include cognitive science, natural language understanding, and computational psycholinguistics. His current address is: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280. (eiselt@cc.gatech.edu, http://www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/faculty/eiselt.html).
Charles R. (Randy) Fletcher is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He teaches courses in cognitive science and the psychology of language and conducts research on the psychological processes involved in understanding and remembering texts. Most of his research has focused on the roles of attention and memory in the comprehension and recall of simple narratives, though lately his interests have broadened to include mathematical proofs and spatial descriptions. He has a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His current address is: Department of Psychology, University of Minnesoty, 75 East River Rd., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0344. (randy@text3.psych.umn.edu, http://text2.psych.umn.edu/RandyHomePage.htmld/).
Jennifer Holbrook is a research staff member in the EduTech Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in Psychology from the University of California at Irvine in 1989. Her research interests in psycholinguistics include ambiguity resolution, comparison of unilingual and multilingual language users, computational psycholinguistics, and natural language understanding applications. Her current address is: EduTech Institute, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332. (holbrook@cc.gatech.edu).
Eric Jones is a senior member of technical staff at Alphatech, Inc. From 1992-96, he was a member of academic staff in the Department of Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1992 for his dissertation entitled "The Flexible Use of Abstract Knowledge in Planning." He also has degrees in mathematics and geography from the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research interests include intelligent database retrieval, case-based reasoning, natural language processing, and machine learning. His current address is: Alphatech, Inc., 50 Mall Rd, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803. (eric.jones@alphatech.com).
Richard Gerrig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Stony Brook. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1984. His book, Experiencing Narrative Worlds, was published in 1993 by Yale University Press. His research interests include cognitive experiences of narratives and the understanding of speaker's meaning. His current address is: Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-2500. (rgerrig@psych1.psy.sunysb.edu).
Trent Lange is a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department of the University of California at Los Angeles. His research interests include natural language understanding, models of human memory, connectionist networks, and cognitive science. Recent interests include statistical models for stock market arbitrage. His current address is: Artificial Intelligence Lab, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024. (lange@cs.ucla.edu).
Mark Langston is a PhD candidate in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Chicago. His interests include inference generation, memory, and discourse comprehension. His current research focusses on the dynamic organizational aspects of short and long-term memory during the on-line comprehension of text, and the development of computational models that simulate these processes. He is also employed with IBM as a systems analyst. His current address is: Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, 5848 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60615. (fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu, http://www.ccp.uchicago.edu/~fugue/vitae.html).
Joe Magliano is currently an assistant professor at Northern Illinois Univeristy. He received his BA (1987) in psychology from the University of Dayton, and his MS (1990) and PhD (1992) from Memphis State University in cognitive psychology. He also was a post doctoral fellow at the Univeristy of Chicago from 1993 to 1996. The focus of his current research is on the question of how people understand events as they experience them over time, such as those conveyed in written discourse and in film. He is specifically interested in how readers and viewers construct coherent representations for a story. His current address is: Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. (jmagliano@niu.edu).
Kavi Mahesh is a Senior Computational Linguist at Oracle Corporation. His chapter was written while he was a Research Scientist and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Computing Research Laboratory in New Mexico State University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995. His research interests include natural language understanding, text processing, summarization, ontologies and knowledge bases. His current address is: Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, MS 659510, Redwood Shores, CA 94065. (kmahesh@us.oracle.com, http://crl.nmsu.edu/users/mahesh/).
Bonnie J. F. Meyer is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, School Psychology, and Special Education at The Pennsylvania State University and member of the Faculty of Gerontology at the Gerontology Center at The University of Georgia. She received her PhD from Cornell University in 1974. Her research interests include reading comprehension, discourse analysis, prose learning, and learning, memory, problem solving, and decision making across the adult life span. Her current address is: Department of Educational Psychology, School Psychology, and Special Education, Penn State, 204 Cedar Bldg., University Park, Pennsylvania 16802. (bjm8@psu.edu, http://www2.ed.psu.edu/espse/staff/bonnie/bonnie.htm).
Justin Peterson is a system vice president developing architectures for global mangement systems at Citibank. Previously he was in the AI group at Bell Atlantic, formerly NYNEX, Science & Technology Research Lab. He received his PhD at Georgia Tech in 1996. His research interests include the application of natural language processing systems to electronic banking systems. His current address is: 111 Wall Street, 12th floor Zone 4, New York, NY 10043. (justin.peterson@citicorp.com).
William J. Rapaport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, and a member of the Center for Cognitive Science, all at State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his PhD from Indiana University in 1976. His research interests are in cognitive science, knowledge representation, and computational linguistics. His current address is: Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2000. (rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu, http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/faculty/rapaport/).
Ellen Riloff is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah. She received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts in 1994. Her research interests include natural language understanding, artificial intelligence, and information retrieval. Her current address is: Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. (riloff@cs.utah.edu, http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff)
Stuart C. Shapiro is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Center for Cognitive Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a past Chair of ACM's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1971. His research interests include knowledge representation, reasoning, and natural language processing. His current address is: Department of Computer Science, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2000. (shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu, http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/).
Tom Trabasso is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology at The University of Chicago. His interests are on discourse analysis and comprehension. His focus has been on the analysis and understanding of narratives. He and his colleagues have investigated the role that causal inferences play in the construction of coherent understanding of narrative texts. His current address is: Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, 5848 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. (tomt@cicero.uchicago.edu, http://www.ccp.uchicago.edu/faculty/Thomas_Trabasso/).
Charles M. Wharton is a research fellow in the Language Section
of The National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders, The
National Institutes of Health. He received his PhD from UCLA in 1993.
His research interests focus on using functional neuroimaging to understand
the neuroanatomy of reasoning, abstract mental representation, and cognition
and emotion. His current address is: Language Section, Bldg. 10, room
5N118A, NIDCD, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892. (wharton@codon.nih.gov).