Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

In this paper , we present a process model of editorial comprehension, representation, and retrieval. Editorial comprehension involves building an argument graph organized by abstract argument strategies which are represented declaratively as argument units. Issues include: (a) organizing and indexing goals, plans, events, states, beliefs, and belief justifications instantiated during comprehension of editorial arguments; and (b) retrieving information from conceptual representations of editorial arguments. This process model of reasoning and argument comprehension is currently being implemented in OpEd (Alvarado et al., 1985a), a computer system that reads short politico-economic editorials and answers questions about them.