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i Syntactic Processing Martin Kay Xerox Pals Alto Research Center In computational linguistics, which began in the 1950's with machine translation, systems that are based mainly on the lexicon have a longer tradition than anything else---for these purposes, twenty five ... | 1979 | 1 |
Semantics of Conceptual Graphs John F. Sowa IBM Systems Research Institute 205 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10017 ABSTRACT: Conceptual graphs are both a language for representing knowledge and patterns for constructing models. They form models in the AI sense of structures that approxi- mate... | 1979 | 10 |
ON THE AUTOMATIC TRANSFORMATION OF CLASS MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA Barbara C. Sangster Rutgers University This paper addresses a problem that may arise in c]assificatzon tasks: the design of procedures for matching an instance with a set ~f criteria for class ... | 1979 | 11 |
A SNAPSHOT OF KDS A KNOWLEDGE DF_,LIVERY SYSTEM James A. Moore end William C. Mann USCIlnformaUon Sciences Institute Marina del Ray, CA June, 1979 SUMMARY KDS Is a computer program which creates multl-par~raph, Natural Language text from a computer representation of knowl... | 1979 | 12 |
The Use of Ooject-Specl flc Knowledge in Natural Language Processing Mark H. Bursteln Department of Computer Science, Yale University 1. INTRODUCTION it is widely reco~nlzed that the process of understandln~ natural language texts cannot be accomplished without ... | 1979 | 13 |
H~ADING WITH A PURPOSE Michael Lebowitz Department of Computer Science, Yale University 1. iNTRODUCTION A newspaper story about terrorism, war, politics or football is not likely to be read in the same way as a gothic novel, college catalog or physics textbook. Simi... | 1979 | 14 |
DISCOURSE: CODES AND CLUES IN CONTEXTS Jane J. Robinson Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International, Menlo Park, California Some of the meaning of a discourse is encoded in its linguistic forms. Thls is the truth-conditional meaning of the propositions those forms express and entail. Som... | 1979 | 15 |
Paraphrasing Using Given and New Information in a Question-Answer System Kathleen R. McKeown Department of Computer and Information Science The Moore School University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 ABSTRACT: The design and implementation of a paraphrase component for a natural lang... | 1979 | 16 |
WHERE qUESTIONS Benny Shanon The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Consider question (i), and the answers to it, (2)-(h)~ (i) Where is the Empire State Building? (2) In New York. (3) In the U.S.A. (h) On 3hth Street and 3rd Avenue. When (i) is posed in California (2) is the appropriate ... | 1979 | 17 |
The Role Of Focussing in Interpretation of Pronouns Candace L. Sidner Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 ;rod Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. 50 Moulton Street Cambridge" MA 02138 In this p;,per I [ discuss the formal relationship betwe... | 1979 | 18 |
The Structure and Process of Talking About Doing James A. Levln and Edwin L. Hutchins Center for Human Information Processing University of Callfornia, San Diego People talk •bout what they do, often •t the same tame a• they are doing. This reporting has •n important function in coordinating aotlon... | 1979 | 19 |
TOWARDS A SELF-EXTENDING PARSER Jaime G. Carbonell Department Of Computer Science Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Abstract This paper discusses an approach to incremental learning in natural language processing. The technique of projecting and integrating semantic ... | 1979 | 2 |
DIKSIGN FOR I)IALOGUE COMPREHENSION William C. Mann USC Information Sciences Institute Marina del Rey, CA April, 1979 This paper describes aspects of the design of a dialogue comprehension system, DCS, currently being Implemented. It concentrates on a few design innovations rather than the descr... | 1979 | 20 |
Plans, Inference, and Indirect Speech Acts I James F. Allen Computer Science Department University of Rochester Rochester, NY Iq627 C. Raymond Perrault Computer Science Department University of Toronto Toronto, Canada MSS IA7 Introduction One of the central concerns of a theory... | 1979 | 21 |
APPLICATIONS DAVID G, HAYS HeXagram Truth, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, Z offer a few remarks for the use of those who seek a point of view from which to see truth in the six papers assigned to this session. Linguistic computation is the fundamental and primitive branch of the ... | 1979 | 22 |
EUFID: A FRIENDLY AND FLEXIBLE FRONT-END FOR DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Marjorie Templeton System Development Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. EUFID is a natural language frontend for data management systems. It is modular and table driven so that it can be interfaced to different applications and data ... | 1979 | 23 |
WORD EXPERT PARSING l Steven L. Small Department of Computer Science University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742 This paper describes an approach to conceptual analysis and understanding of natural language in which linguistic knowledge centers on individual words, and the analysis mechanisms ... | 1979 | 3 |
Schank/Riesbeck vs. Norman/Rumelhart: What's the Difference? Marc Eisenstadt The Open University Milton Keynes, ENGLAND This paper explores the fundamental differences between two sentence-parsers developed in the early 1970's: Riesbeck's parser for $chank's'conceptual dependency' theory (4, 5), an... | 1979 | 4 |
TOWARD A COMPUTATIONAL THEORY OF SPEECH PERCEPTION Jonathan Allen Research Laboratory of Electronics & Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 ABSTRACT In recent years,a great deal of evidence has been collec- ted which gives subs... | 1979 | 5 |
UNGRAMHATICALITY AND EXTRA-GRAMMATICALITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING SYSTEMS Stan C. Kwasny as The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 1. Introduction Among the components included in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) systems is a grammar which specifies much of the lin... | 1979 | 6 |
GENF~ALIZED AUGMENTED TRANSITION NETWORK GRAMMARS FOR GENERATION FROM SD£%NTIC NETWORKS Stuart C. Shapiro Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Buffalo I. YNTRODUCTYON Augmented transition network (ATN) grammars have, since their development by Woods [ 7; ~, become the most used method of describ... | 1979 | 7 |
KNOI~LEDGE ORGANIZATION AND APPLICATION: BRIEF COMIIENTS ON PAPERS IN THE SESSION Aravind K. Joshi Department of Computer and Information Science The Moore School University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 191O4 Comments: My brief comments on the papers in this session are based on the abstracts ... | 1979 | 8 |
Taxonomy, Descriptions, and Individuals in Natural Language Understanding Ronald J. Brachman Bolt Beralmek and Newman Inc. KLONE is a general-purpose language for representing conceptual information. Several of its pr~linent features -- semantically clean inheritance of structured descr... | 1979 | 9 |
ON THE SPATIAL USES OF PREPOSITIONS Annette Herskovlts Linguistics Department, Stanford University At first glance, the spatial uses of prepositions seem to constitute a good semantic domain for a computational approach. One expects such uses will ref... | 1980 | 1 |
ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF DISCOURSE STRUCTURE AND SEMANTIC DOMAIN Charlotte Linde ~ J.A. Goguen + * I. THE STATUS OF DISCOURSE STRUCTURE Traditionally, linguistics has been concerned with units at the level of the sentence or below, but recently, a body of research has emerged which demonstrates th... | 1980 | 10 |
The Parameters of Conversational Style Deborah Tannen Georgetown University There are several dimensions along which verbalization responds to context, resulting in individual and social differences in conversational style. Style, as I use the term, is not something extra added on, like decora- ... | 1980 | 11 |
PHRASE STRUCTURE TREES BEAR MORE FRUIT THAN YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT* Aravind K. Joshi and Leon "S." Levy Department of Computer and Bell Telephone Laboratories Information Science Whippany, NJ 07981 The Moore School/D2 University of Permsylvania Philadelphia, PA 1910B EXTENDED ABSTRACT**... | 1980 | 12 |
CAPTURING LINGUISTIC GENERALIZATIONS WITH METARULES IN AN ANNOTATED PHRASE-STRUCTURE GRAMMAR Kurt Konolige SRI International = 1. Introduction Computational models employed by current natural language understanding systems rely on phrase-structure representations of syntax. ... | 1980 | 13 |
Computational Analogues of Constraints on Grammars: A Model of Syntactic Acquisition Robert Cregar Berwick MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA 1. Introduction: Constraints And Language Acquisition A principal goal of modern linguistics is to account for the apparently rapid and unifo... | 1980 | 14 |
A Linear-time Model of Language Production: some psychological implications (extended abstract) David D. McDonald MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Cambridge, Massachusetts Traditional psycholinguistic studies of language production, using evidence from naturally occurring errors in speech [1]... | 1980 | 15 |
PROBLEM SOLVING APPLIED TO LANGUAGE GENERATION Douglas I~: Appelt Stanford University, Stanfo,d, Califorlda SR I International 111enlo Park. California This research was supported at SRI htternational by the Defense Advanced Reseat~ch Projects Agency under contract N00039-79-C-0118 ~¢ith the ... | 1980 | 16 |
Interactive Discourse: Influence of the Social Context Panel Chair's Introduction Jerry R. Hobbs SRI International Progress on natural language interfaces can perhaps be stimulated or directed by imagining the ideal natural language system of the future. What features (or even design philosop... | 1980 | 17 |
PARALANGUAGE IN COMPUTERMEDIATED COMMUNICATION John Carey Alternate Media Center New York University This paper reports on some of the components of person to person communication mediated by computer conferenc- ing systems. Transcripts from two systems were analysed: the Electronic Information ... | 1980 | 18 |
Expanding the Horizons of Natural Language Interfaces Phil Hayes Computer Science Department, Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, P A 15213, USA Abstract Current natural language interfaces have concentrated largely on determining the literal "meaning" of input from their users. While such decod... | 1980 | 19 |
UNDERSTANDING SCENE DESCRIPTIONS AS EVg~NT SIMULATIONS I David L. Waltz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The language of scene descriptions 2 must allow a hearer to build structures of schemas similar (to some level of detail) to those the speaker has built v... | 1980 | 2 |
THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION IN FACE TO FACE VS. COMPUTERIZED CONFERENCES; A CONTROTT.~n EXPERIMENT USING BALES INTERACTION PROCESS ANALYSIS Start Roxanne Kiltz, Kenneth Johnson, and Ann Marie Rabke Upsala College INTRODUCTION A computerized conference (CC) is a form of co~znunica- tion in which parti... | 1980 | 20 |
WHAT TYPE OF INTERACTION IS IT TO BE Emanuel A. Schegloff Department of Sociology, U.C.L.A. For one, like myself, who knows something about human interaction, but next to nothing about computers and human/machine interaction, the most useful role at a meeting such as this is to listen, to hear the tro... | 1980 | 21 |
THE COMPUTER AS AN ACTIVE COMMUNICATION MEDIUM John C. Thomas IBM T. J. Watson Research Center PO Box 218 Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 I. THE NATURE OF COMMUNICATION goals r4imetacomments that direct the conversation[~ Communication is often conceived of in basically the following terms. ... | 1980 | 22 |
WHAT DISCOURSE FEATURES AREN'T NEEDED IN ON-LINE DIALOGUE Eleanor Wynn Xerox Office Products Division Palo Alto, California It is very interesting as a social observer to track the development of computer scientists involved in AI and natural language-related research in theoretical issues of mutua... | 1980 | 23 |
Parsing w. A. Martin Laboratory for Computcr Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachu.~tts 02139 [.ooking at the Proceedings of last year's Annual Meeting, one sccs that the session most closely parallcling this one was entitled Language Structure and Par~ing. [n avcry nice... | 1980 | 24 |
If The Parser Fails" Ralph M. Weischedel University of Delaware and John E. Black" W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. The unforgiving nature of natural language components when someone uses an unexpected input has recently been a concern of several projects. For instance, Carbonell (1979) discu... | 1980 | 25 |
Flexible Parsing Phil Hayes and George Mouradian Computer Science Department, Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh. P A 15213, USA Abstract' When people use natural language in natural settings, they often use it ungrammatically, rnisSing out or repeating words, breaking-oil and restar... | 1980 | 26 |
Parsing in the Ahsmmee ofa Comldete Lexicon Jim Davidson and S. Jerrold Kaplan Computer Science Departmen~ Stanford University Stanfor~ CA 94305 I. Introduction It is impractical for natural language parsers which serve as front ends to large or changing databases to maintain a complete in-core lex... | 1980 | 27 |
On Parsing Strategies and Closure' Kenneth Church MIT Cambridge. MA 02139 This paper proposes a welcome hypothesis: a computationally simple device z is sufficient for processing natural language. Traditionally it has been argued that processing natural language syntax requires very powerful machin... | 1980 | 28 |
STPJkTEGX?. SELECTION FOR AN ATN STNTACT~C PARSER Giacomo Ferrari and Oliviero Stock Istituto dl tingulstica Computazionale - C~TR, Plsa Performance evaluation in the field of natural language processing is generally recognised as being extremely complex. There a... | 1980 | 29 |
ON THE EXISTENCE OF PRIMITIVE MEANING UNITS Sharon C. Salveter Computer Science Department SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794 ABSTRACT Knowledge representation schemes are either based on a set of primitives or not. The decision of whether or not to have a primitive-based scheme is cruc... | 1980 | 3 |
PHRAN - A Knowledge-Based Nature] Language Understender Robert Wilensky and Yigal Arena University of California at Berkeley Abstract We have developed an approach to natural language processing in which the natural language processor is viewed as a knowledge-based system whose kn... | 1980 | 30 |
ATN ~AM~AR HDDELI!~G ]17 APPLIED LII~UISIqCS ABSTRACT: Au~mentad TrarmitiOn Network grm.n~rs have significant areas of ~mexplored application as a simula- tion tool for grammar designers. The intent of this pa- per is to discuss some current efforts in developing a gr=m.~ testing tool for the speciali... | 1980 | 31 |
Interactive Discourse: Looking to the Future Panel Chair's Introduction Bonnie Lynn Webber University of Pennsylvania In any technological field, both short-term and long- term research can be aided by considering where that technology might be ten, twenty, fifty years down the pike. In the f... | 1980 | 32 |
PROSPECTS mOR PRACTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS Larry R. Harris Artificial Intelligence Corporation Newton Centre, ~ass. 02159 As the author of a "practical" NL data base query system, one of the suggested topics for this panel is of particular interest to me. The issue of ... | 1980 | 33 |
FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Gary G. Hendrix SRI International Preparation of this paper was supported by the under contract N00039-79-C-0118 with the Naval expressed are those of the author. Defense Advance Research Projects Agency Electronic Systems Command. The views A. ... | 1980 | 34 |
NATURAL I.~IGUAGE INTERACTION WITH MACHINES : A PA~SING FAD? 0R THE WAY OF THE FU~"JRE? A. Michael Noll American Telephone and Telegraph Company Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920 People communicate primarily by two medea: acoustic -- the spoken word; and visual N the written word. It i... | 1980 | 35 |
NATURAL VS. PRECISE CONCISE LANGUAGES FOR HUMAN OPERATION OF COMPUTERS: RESEARCH ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES Ben S~eiderman, Department of Computer Science University of Maryland, College Park, MD. This paper raises concerns that natural language front ends for computer systems can limit a rese... | 1980 | 36 |
NATURAL LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER INTEBFACE DESIGN MURRAY TUROFF DEPARTMENT OF COMPU%'z~ AND IiVFORMATION SCIENCE IIEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SOME ICONOCLASTIC ASSERTIONS Considering the problems we have in communicating with other h~rmans using natural language, it is not clear that we want to... | 1980 | 37 |
WORD, PHRASE AND SENTENCE Kob't F. Sinnnons Univ. of Texas, Austin Among the relative verities of natural language processing are the facts that morphemes and words are primary semantic units, and that their co-ocurrence in phrases and sentences provides cues for selecting sense mean... | 1980 | 38 |
REPRESENTATION OF TEXTS FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL N.J. Belkin, B.G. Michell, and D.G. Kuehner University of Western Ontario The representation of whole texts is a major concern of the field known as information retrieval (IR), an impor- taunt aspect of which might more precisely be called 'document re... | 1980 | 39 |
Metaphor - A Key to Extensible Semantic Analysis Jaime G. Carbonell Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Abstract Interpreting metaphors is an integral and inescapable process in human understanding of natural language. This paper discusses a method of analyzing metaphors based on the... | 1980 | 4 |
WORD AND OBJECT IN DISEASE DESCRIPTIONS* M.S. Blois, D.D. Sherertz, M.S. Tuttle Section on Medical Information Science University of Calif(rnia, San Francisco Experiments were conducted on a book, Current Medical Information and Terminolog~, (AMA, Chicago, 1971, edited by Burgess Gordon, M.D.), which ... | 1980 | 40 |
REQUIREMENTS OF TEXT PROCESSING LEXICONS Kenneth C. Litkoweki 16729 Shea Lane, Gaithersburg, Md. 20760 Five years ago, Dwight Bolinger [1] wrote that efforts to represent meaning had not yet made use of the insights of lexico- graphy. The few substantial... | 1980 | 41 |
Chronometric Studies of Lexical Ambiguity Resolution Mark S. Seidenberg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. Michael g. Tanenhaus Wayne State University Languages such as English contain a large number of words with multiple meanings. These words are commonly... | 1980 | 42 |
Real Reading Behavior Robert Thibadeau, Marcel Just, and Patricia Carpenter Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Abstract The most obvious observable activities that accompany reading are the eye fixations on various parts of the text. Our laboratory has now developed the technology for ... | 1980 | 43 |
An Experiment in Machine Translation INTRODUCTION Although funding for Machine Translation (MT) research virtua11y ended in the U.S. with the release of the ALPAC report [1] in 1966, there has been a continuing interest in this field. Rapid evolution of science and technology, coupled with increase... | 1980 | 44 |
Metaphor Comprehension - A special mode of language processing? (Extended Abstract) Jon M. Slack Open University, U.K. The paper addresses the question of whether a complete language understanding system requires special procedures in order to comprehend metaphorical language. To ... | 1980 | 5 |
Interactive Discourse: Influence of Problem Context Panel Chair's Introduction Barbara Grosz SRI International The purpose of the special parasession on "Interactive Man/Machine Discourse" is to discuss some critical issues in the design of (computer-based) interactive natural language processin... | 1980 | 6 |
SHOULD COMPUTERS WRITE SPOKEN LANGUAGE? Wallace L. Chafe University of California, Berkeley Recently there has developed a great deal of interest in the differences between written and spoken language. I joined this trend a little more than a year ago, and have been exploring not only what the spec... | 1980 | 7 |
Signalling the Interpretation of Indirect Speech Acts Philip R. Cohen Center for the Study of Reading University of Illinois, & Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. Cambridge, Mass. This panel was asked to consider how various "problem contexts" (e.g., cooperatively as... | 1980 | 8 |
PARASESSION ON TOPICS IN INYEZRACIXVE DISCOURSE INFLUENCE OF THE PROBLEM CONTEXT* Ar,avind K. Joshi Department of Computer and Infornmtion Science Room 268 Moore School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 My consents are organized within the framework suggested by the Panel Chair, ... | 1980 | 9 |
A Practical Comparison of Parsing Strategies Jonathan Slocum Siemens Corporation INTRODUCTION Although the literature dealing with formal and natural languages abounds with theoretical arguments of worst- case performance by various parsing strategies [e.g., Griffiths & Petrick, 1965; Aho & Ullman,... | 1981 | 1 |
What Makes Evaluation Hard? 1.0 THE GOAL OF EVALUATION Ideally, an evaluation technique should describe an algorithm that an evaluator could use that would result in a score or a vector of scores that depict the level of performance of the natural language system ... | 1981 | 10 |
EVALUATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES TO DATA BASE SYSTEMS Bozena Henisz Thompson California Institute of Technology INTEODUCT~ON Is evaluation, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder? The answer is far from simple because it depends on who is considered to be the proper beholder. Evalua... | 1981 | 11 |
TWO DISCOURSE GENERATORS William C. Mann USC Information Sciences Institute WHAT IS DISCOURSE GENERATION? The task of discourse generation is to produce multisentential text in natural language which (when heard or read) produces effects (informing, motivating, etc.) and impressions (co... | 1981 | 12 |
A GRAMMAR AND A LEXICON FOR A TEXT-PRODUCTION SYSTEM Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen USC/Information Sciences Institute ABSTRACT In a text-produqtion system high and special demands are placed on the grammar and the lexicon. This paper will view these comDonents in such a system (overview in sectio... | 1981 | 13 |
Language Production: the Source ofthe Dictionary David D. McDonald University of Massachusetts at Amherst April 1980 Abstract Ultimately in any natural language production system the largest amount of human effort will go into the construction of the dictionary: the data base that associates object... | 1981 | 14 |
Analo~es in Spontaneous Discourse I Rachel Relc bman Harvard University and Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Abstract This paper presents an analysis of analogies based on observations of oatural conversations. People's spontaneous use of analogies provides Inslg~t into their implicit ... | 1981 | 15 |
I~IGATION OF PROCESSING STRATEGIES FOR THE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ARGOMF/Trs Robin Cohen Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, Canada M5S IA7 2. THE UNDERSTANDING PROCESS This paper outlines research on processing strategies being developed for a language understanding... | 1981 | 16 |
What's Necessary to Hide?: Modeling Action Verbs James F. Alien Com purer Science 1)epartmen t University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 Ahstract This paper considers what types of knowledge one must possess in order to reason about actions. Rather than concentrating on how actions are perf... | 1981 | 17 |
A Rule-based Conversation Participant Robert E. Frederking Computer Science Department, Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Abstract The problem of modeling human understanding and generation of a coherent dialog is investigated by simulating a conversation participant. ... | 1981 | 18 |
SEARCH AND INFERENCE STRATEGIES IN PRONOUN RESOLUTION : AN E~ERIMENTAL STUDY Kate Ehrlich Department of Psychology UnlversiCy of Massachusetts Amherst, ~ 01003 The qusstlun of how people resolve pronouns has the various factors combine. been of interest to language theorists for a long time ... | 1981 | 19 |
COM PUTATIONAL ('Obl PLEXITY AND LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR Robert C. Berwick MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA 1. INTRODUCTION An important goal of ntodent linguistic theory is to characterize as narrowly as possible the class of natural !anguaooes. An adequate linguistic theory ... | 1981 | 2 |
PERSPECTIVES ON PARSING ISSUES Jane J. Robinson, Chair Artificial Intelligence Center SRZ International Nowhere is the tension between the two areas of our field--computatlon and llnguistlcs--more apparent than in the issues that arise in connection with parsing ... | 1981 | 20 |
SOME I33UE3 IH P&RSING AHD NATURAL LINGUAGE UNDERSTANDING Robert J. Bobrow Bolt Beranek and ~ewman Inc. Bonnie L. Webber Department of Computer & Information Science University of Pennsylvania Lan&ua~e is a system for ancodln~ and trans~tttlnK ideas. A theory that s... | 1981 | 21 |
PARSING Ralph Grishman Dept. of Computer Science New York University New York, N. Y. One reason for the wide variety of views on many subjects in computational linguistics (such as parsing) is the diversity of objectives which lead people to do research in this area. Some researchers are moti... | 1981 | 22 |
A View of Parsing Ronald M. Kaplan Xerox Pale Alto Research Center The questions before this panel presuppose a distinction between parsing and interpretation. There are two other simple and obvious distinctions that I think are necessary for a reasonable discussion of the issues. First, we must clear... | 1981 | 23 |
PERSPECTIVES ON PARSING ISSUES Christopher K. Riesbeck Yale University COMPUTATIONAL PEESPECTT VE IS IT USEFUL TO DISTINGUISH PARSING FROM INTERPRETATION? Since most of this position paper viii be attacking the separation of parsing from interpretation, let me first make it ... | 1981 | 24 |
PRESUPPOSITION AND IMPLICATURE IN MODEL-THEORETIC PRAGMATICS Douglas B. Moran Oregon State University Model-theoretic pragmatics is an attempt to provide a formal description of the pragmatics of natural language as effects arising from using model-theoretic semantics in a dynamic environment. The ... | 1981 | 25 |
SOME COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF SITUATION S~21ANTICS Jon Barwise Philosophy Department Stanford Unlverslty~ Stanford, California Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Can a realist model theory of natural language be computationally plausibl... | 1981 | 26 |
A SITUATION SEMANTICS APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS 1 David Andreoff Evans Stanford University 1. INTRODUCTION During thc past two decades, much work in linguistics has focused on sentences as minimal units of communication, and the project of rigorously characterizing the structure of... | 1981 | 27 |
PROBLEMS IN LOGICAL FORM Robert C. Moore SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025 I INTRODUCTION Decomposition of the problem of "language understanding" into manageable subproblems has always posed a major challenge to the development theories of, and systems for, natu... | 1981 | 28 |
0.0 INTRODUCTION A CASE FOR RULE-DRIVEN SEMANTIC PROCESSING Marcha Palmer Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylanla The primary cask of semantic processing is to provide an appropriate mapping between the synCactlc consClCuanCs of a... | 1981 | 29 |
Corepresentational Grammar and Parsing English Comparatives Karen P#an University of )linnesota SEC. 1 INTRODUCTION SEC. 3 COREPRESENTATIONAL GRAMMAR (CORG) Marcus [3] notes that the syntax of English comparative constructions is highly complex, and claims that both syntactic end semantic informati... | 1981 | 3 |
A TAXONOMY FOR ENGLISH NOUNS AND VERBS Robert A. Amsler Computer Sciences Department University of Texas, Austin. TX 78712 ABSTRACT: The definition texts of a machine-readable pocket dictionary were analyzed to determine the disambiguated word sense of the kernel... | 1981 | 30 |
1. Introduction INTERPRETING NATURAL LANGUAGE DATABASE UPDATES S. Jermld Kaplan Jim David,son Computer Science Dept. Stanford University Stanford, Ca. 94305 Although the problem of querying a database in natural language has been studied extensively, there has been relatively little work on p... | 1981 | 31 |
Dynamic Strategy Selection in Flexible Parsing Jaime G. Carbonell and Philip J. Hayes Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Abstract Robust natural language interpretation requires strong semantic domain models, "fall-soff" recovery heuristics, and very flexible control structures. Althou... | 1981 | 32 |
A Construction-Specific Approach to Focused Interaction in Flexible Parsing Philip J. Hayes Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Abstract ~ A flexible parser can deal with input that deviates from its grammar, in addition to input that conforms to it. Ideally, such a parser will corre... | 1981 | 33 |
CONTROLLED TRANSFORMATIONAL SENTENCE GENERATION Madeleine Bates Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. Robert Ingria Department of Linguistics, MIT I. INTRODUCTION This paper describes a sentence generator that was built primarily to focus on syntactic form and syntactic relationships. Our main goal w... | 1981 | 34 |
TRANSPORTABLE NATURAL-LANGUAGE INTERFACES TO DATABASES by Gary G. Hendrlx and William H. Lewis SRI International 333 Ravenewood Avenue Menlo Park, California 94025 I INTRODUCTION Over the last few years a number of application systems have been constructed that allow user... | 1981 | 35 |
Chart Parsing and Rule Schemata in PSG Henry Thompson Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Edinburgh, Hope Park Square, Meadow Lane, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW INTRODUCTION MCHART is a flexible, modular chart parsing framework I have been developing (in Lisp) at Edinburgh, whose initial design charac... | 1981 | 36 |
PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF COMPONENT ALGORITHMS FOR THE PHONEMICIZATION OF ORTHOGRAPHY Jared Bernstein Larry Nessly Telesensory Speech Systems University of North Carolina Palo Alto, CA 94304 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 A system for converting English text into synthetic speech can be divided into t... | 1981 | 4 |
PHONY: A Heuristic Phonological Analyzer* Lee A. Becket Indiana University DOMAIN AND TASK PHONY is a program to do phonological analysis. Within the generative model of grammar the function of the phonological component is to assign a phonetic representation to an utterance by modifying ... | 1981 | 5 |
EVALUATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES TO DATABASE SYSTEMS: A PANEL DISCUSSION Norman K. Sondheimer, Chair Sperry Univac Blue Bell, PA For a natural language access to database system to be practical it must achieve a good match between the capabilities of the user and the r... | 1981 | 6 |
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