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The support supertasks

   With the knowledge of what a supertask is and what information it needs to function, it is now possible to describe in detail the six supertasks which make up creative reading. First, I present those three supertasks which fill support roles within the creative reading theory.   memory acts as the interface between each supertask and the knowledge base of the reasoner. The   reasoning supertask acts as a general purpose understanding mechanism, responsible to making sense of concepts which enter the reasoner. This will include a range of concepts from those which are known to the reader to those which are completely novel. Finally, the   sentence processing supertask interfaces the reader to the world of text.



 

Kenneth Moorman
11/4/1997