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J. Norwood Crout Artificial Intelligence Corporation The INTELLECT natural language database query system, a product of Artificial Intelligence Corporation, is the only commercially available system with true English query capability. Based on experience with INTELLECT in the areas of qual... | 1981 | 7 |
SELECTIVE PLANNING OF INTERFACE EVALUATION~ William C. Mann USC Information Sciences Institute 1 The Scope of Evaluations The basic ides behind evaluation is 8 simple one: An object is produced and then subjected to trials of its I~trformance. Observing the trials revesJs things about the character... | 1981 | 8 |
FIELD TESTING THE TRANSFORMATIOHAL qUESTION AHSWERIHG (TqA) SYSTEM S. R. Patrick ~DM T.J. Watson Reseorch Center PO BOX 218 Yorktown Heights, NQW York 10598 The Transformatlonal question Answering (TqA) system was developed over a period of time beginning in the early par... | 1981 | 9 |
TRANSLATING ENGLISH INTO LOGICAL FORM' Stanley J. Rosenscbein Stuart M, Shieber ABSTRACT A scheme for syntax-directed translation that mirrors com- positional model-theoretic semantics is discussed. The scheme is the basis for an English translation system called PArR and was used to specify a sema... | 1982 | 1 |
ENGLISH WORDS AND DATA BASES: HOW TO BRIDGE THE GAP Remko J.H. Scha Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven The Netherlands ABSTRACT If a q.a. system tries to transform an Eng- lish question directly into the simplest possible formulation of the corresponding data base query, discrepancies be... | 1982 | 10 |
Problems ¥ith Domain-Independent Natural Language Database Access Systems Steven P. Shvartz Cognitive Systems Inc. 234 Church Street New Haven, Ca. 06510 Zn the past decade, a number of natural lang- uage database access systems have been constructed (e.g. Hendrix 1976; Waltz et e... | 1982 | 11 |
ISSUES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE ACCESS TO DATABASES FROM A LOGIC PROGRAMMING PERSPECTIVE David H D Warren Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA I INTRODUCTION I shall discuss issues in natural language (NL) access to databases in the light... | 1982 | 12 |
NATURAL LANGUAGE DATABASE UPDATES Sharon C. Salveter David Maier Computer Science Depar=ment SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794 ABSTRACT Although a great deal of research effort has been expended in support of natural language (NL) database querying, little effort has gone to NL databa... | 1982 | 13 |
PROCESSING ENGLISH WITH A GENERALIZED PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR Jean Mark Gawron, Jonathan King, John Lamping, Egon Loebner, Eo Anne Paulson, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Ivan A. Sag, and Thomas Wasow Computer Research Center Hewlett Packard Company 1501 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 ABSTRACT This... | 1982 | 14 |
Experience with an Easily Computed Metric for Ranking Alternative Parses George E. Heidorn Computer Sciences Department IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 Abstract This brief paper, which is itself an extended abstract for a forthcoming paper, describes a metri... | 1982 | 15 |
An Improved Heuristic for Ellipsis Processing* Ralph M. Welschedel Department of Computer & Information Sciences University of Delaware Newark, Delaware 19711 and Norman K. Sondheimer Software Research Sperry Univac MS 2G3 Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19424 I. Introduction Robust response... | 1982 | 16 |
REFLECTIONS ON 20 YEARS OF THE ACL AN INTRODUCTION Donald E. Walker Artificial In~elligence Center SRI International Menlo Park, California 94025, USA Our society was founded on 13 June 1962 as the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics. C... | 1982 | 17 |
OUR DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY Victor H. Yngve University of Chicago Chlcngo, 1111nols 60637 USA ABSTRACT In June of 1952, ten years before the founding of the Association, the first meeting ever held on computational linguistics took place. This meet- ing, the succeeding ten years, and the first year ... | 1982 | 18 |
2002: ANOTHER SCORE David G. Hays Metagram 25 Nagle Avenue, Apartment 3-G New York, NY 10040 Twenty years is a long time to spend in prison, but it is a short time in intellectual history. In the few years Just prior to the foundation of this Assoc... | 1982 | 19 |
LINGUISTIC AND COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS* Brian Cantwell Smith XEROX Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 ABSTRACT We argue that because the very concept of computation rests on notions of interpretation, the semantics of natural languages and the semantics of computat... | 1982 | 2 |
MY TERM Winfred P. Lehmann Department of Linguistics The University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 My term came at the time of the New York World Fair. The Association, still of MT as well as CL, was trying to crash the club that shared profits from the annual meet... | 1982 | 20 |
A SOCIETY IN TRANSITION Donald E. Walker Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International Menlo Park, California 94025, USA I was President in 1968, the year during which the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics became the Association for Computational Lingu... | 1982 | 21 |
THEMES FROM 1972 Robert F. Simmons Department of Computer Sciences University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 Although 1972 was the year that Winograd published his now classic natural language Study of the blocks world, that fact had not yet pene... | 1982 | 22 |
Tw'SNTYYEARSOFREF~C~S* ~avind K. ~shi Department of Computer and Information Science R. 268 Moore School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 As I was reflecting deeply in front of the statue of Bodhisattva of G r ~ and Wisdom in the University Muset~n, I was startled to see Jan... | 1982 | 23 |
ACL IN 1977 Paul G. Chapin National Science Foundation 1800 G St. NW Washington, D.C. 20550 As I leaf through my own "ACL (Historical)" file (which, I am frightened to observe, goes back to the Fourth Annual Meeting, in 1966), and focus in particular on 1977, when I was President, it strikes ... | 1982 | 24 |
P~FLECTIONS ON TWENTY YEARS OF THE ACL Jonathan Allen Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 I entered the field of computational linguistics in 1967 and one of my earliest reco... | 1982 | 25 |
ON THE PRESENT Norman K. Sondheimer Sperry Univac Blue Bell, PA 19424 USA The Association for Computational Linguistics is twenty years old. We have much to be proud of: a fine journal, significant annual meetings, and a strong presence in the professional community. Computational Linguistics... | 1982 | 26 |
PLANNING NATURAL LANGUAGE REFERRING EXPRESSIONS Douglas E. Appelt SRI International Menlo Park, California ABSTRACT This paper describes how a language-planning system can produce natural-language referring expressions that satisfy multiple goals. It describes a formal representation fo... | 1982 | 27 |
THE TEXT SYSTEM FO~NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION: AN OVERVIEW* Kathleen R. M::Keown Dept. of Computer & Information Science The Moore School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 ABSTRACT Computer-based generation of natural language requires consideration of two different ty... | 1982 | 28 |
At~3MENTING A DATABASE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION* Kathleen F. M~Coy Dept. of Computer and Information Science The Moore School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 ABSTRACT The knowledge representation is an important factor in natural lan... | 1982 | 29 |
THE REPRESENTATION OF INCONSISTENT INFORMATION IN A DYNAMIC MODEL-THEORETIC SEMANTICS Douglas B. Moran Department of Computer Science Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331 ABSTRACT Model-theoretic semantics provides a computationally attractive means of representing the semant... | 1982 | 3 |
SALIENCE: THE KEY TO THE SELECTION PROBLEM IN NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION E. Jeffrey Conklin David D. McDonald Department of Computer and Information Science University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 USA I ABSTRACT We argue that in domains where a strong notion of salience c... | 1982 | 30 |
A KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING APPROACH TO NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING Stuart C. Shapiro & Jeannette G. Neal Department of Computer Science State University of New York at Buffalo Amherst, New York 14226 ABSTRACT This paper describes the results of a preliminary study of a Knowledge Engineering a... | 1982 | 31 |
A Model of Early Syntactic Development Pat Langley The Robotics Institute Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1521,3 USA ABSTRACT AMBER is a model of first language acquisition that improves its performance through a process of error recovery. The model is implemented as an adapt... | 1982 | 32 |
BUILDING NON-NORMATIVE SYSTEMS - THE SEARCH FOR ROBUSTNESS AN OVERVIEW Mitchell P. Marcus Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 Many natural language understanding systems behave much like the proverbial high school english teacher who simply fails to understand any utterance which ... | 1982 | 33 |
DESIG~ DIMENSIONS FOR NON-NORMATIVE ONDERSTARDING SYSTEMS Robert J. Bobrow Madelelne Bates Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. 10 Moulton Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238 I. Introduction This position paper is not based upon direct experience with the design and implementation of a "non-normati... | 1982 | 34 |
Scruffy Text Understanding: Design and Implementation of 'Tolerant' Understanders Richard H. Granger Artificial Intelligence Project Computer Science Department University of California Irvine, California 92717 AB STRACT Most large text-understanding systems have been designed ... | 1982 | 35 |
ON THE LINGUISTIC CHARACTER OF NON-STANDARD INPUT Anthony S. Kroch and Donald Hindle Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA ABSTRACT If natural language understanding systems are ever to cope with the full range of English langu... | 1982 | 36 |
Ill-Formed and Non-Standard Language Problems Stan Kwasny Computer Science Department Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Abstract Prospects look good for making real improve- ments in Natural Language Processing systems with regard to dealing with unconventional inputs in a pra... | 1982 | 37 |
"NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS ARE NOT NECESSARILY GRAMMATICAL AND UNAMBIGUOUS OR EVEN COMPLETE." Lance A. Miller Behavioral Sciences and Linguistics Group IBM Watson Research Center P. O. Box 218 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 The EPISTLE system is being developed in a research project for exp... | 1982 | 38 |
SOLUTIONS TO ISSUES DEPEND ON THE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION Frederick B. Tho~psoH ~ l i £ o r n i ~ I n s t i t u t e o£ Technology Pasadena, C~,li?orni~ In orpQnizing This p~nel, our Ch(tirmon, Bob Moore, expressed the view thor too often discussion o? Hoturra'l l,',nguage oc... | 1982 | 39 |
What's in a Semantic Network? James 17. A lien Alan M. Frisch Computer Science Department The University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 Abstract Ever since Woods's "What's in a Link" paper, there has been a growing concern for formalization in the study of knowledge representation. Several ... | 1982 | 4 |
DEPENDENCIES OF DISCOURSE STRUCTURE ON THE MODALITY OF CCI~4t~ICATION: TELEPHONE vs. TELETYPE Philip R. Cohen Dept. of Computer Science Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331 Scott Fertig Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. Cambridge, MA 02239 Kathy Starr Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. ... | 1982 | 5 |
TOWARDS A THEORY OF COMPREHENSION OF DECLARATIVE CONTEXTS Fernando Gomez Department of Computer Science University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida 32816 ABSTRACT An outline of a theory of comprehension of declarative contexts is presented. The main aspect of the theory being developed is ... | 1982 | 6 |
NATURAL-LANGUAGE ACCESS TO DATABASES--THEORETICAL/TECHNICAL ISSUES Robert C. Moore Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025 I INTRODUCTION Although there have been many experimental systems for natural-language access to databases, with some now going in... | 1982 | 7 |
TRANSPORTABLE NATURAL-LANGUAGE INTERFACES: PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES Barbara J. Grosz Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Department of Computer and Information Science 1 University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, PA 19104 I OVERVIEW I will address the questions... | 1982 | 8 |
THEORETICAL/TECHNICAL ISSUES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE ACCESS TO DATABASES S. R. Petrick IBM T.J. Watson Research Center INTRODUCTION In responding to the guidelines established by the session chairman of this panel, three of the five topics he set forth will be discussed. These include aggregate functio... | 1982 | 9 |
CONTEXT-FREENESS AND THE COMPUTER PROCESSING OF HUMAN LANGUAGES Geoffrey K. Pullum Cowell College University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95064 ABSTRACT Context-free grammars, far from having insufficient expressive power for the description of human fan K - uages, may he ove... | 1983 | 1 |
A FOUNDATION FOR SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION Graeme Hirst Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Abstract Traditionally, translation from the parse tree repre- senting a sentence to a semantic representation (such as frames or procedural semantics) has a/ways been th... | 1983 | 10 |
TELEGRAM: A GRAMMAR FORMALISM FOR LANGUAGE PLANNING Douglas E. Appelt Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International Menlo Park, California O. Abstract Planning provides the basis for a theory of language generation that considers the communicative goals of the speaker when p... | 1983 | 11 |
AN OVERVIEW OF THE NIGEL TEXT GENERATION GRAMMAR William C. Mann USC/Information Sciences institute 4676 Admiralty Way # 1101 Marina del Rey, CA 90291 Abstract Research on the text generation task has led to creation of a large systemic grammar of English, Nigel, which is embedded in a computer ... | 1983 | 12 |
Automatic Recognition of Intonation Patterns Janet B. Pierrehumbert Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 1. Introduction This paper is a progress report on a project in linguistically based automatic speech recognition, The domain of this project is English intonation. The system I will ... | 1983 | 13 |
A Finite-Slate Parser for Use in Speech Recognition Kenneth W. Church NE43-307 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA. 02139 This paper is divided into two parts. 1 The first section motivates the application of finite-state parsing techniques at the phonetic level in order to exploit ... | 1983 | 14 |
On the Mathematical Properties of Linguistic Theories C. tgm.lm~nd Pev-r=utt Dept. of Computer Science Untvermty of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S IA4 ASS~ACT Meta-theoretical results on the decidability, genera- tire capacity, and recognition complexity o~ several syn- tactic theories are... | 1983 | 15 |
A Framework for Processing Partially Free Word Order* Hans Uszkoreit Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 Abstract The partially free word order in German belongs to the class of phenomena in natttral language that require a close in- ter... | 1983 | 16 |
Sentence Disambiguation by a Shift-Reduce Parsing Technique* Stuart M. Shieber Abstract Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 Native speakers of English show definite and consistent preferences for certain readings of syntactically ambiguo... | 1983 | 17 |
SYN'I'ACI IC CONSTI~,,\INTS AND F~FI:ICIFNI' I~AI(SAI~,II.I'I'Y Robert C. Berwick Room 820, MIT Artificial Intelligence l,aboratory 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 Amy S. Weinberg Deparuncnt of Linguistics, MIT Cambridge, MA 02139 ABSTRACT A central goal of linguistic theory is to exp... | 1983 | 18 |
Deterministic Parsing of Syntactic Non-fluencies Donald Hindle Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 It is often remarked that natural language, used naturally, is unnaturally ungrammatical.* Spontaneous speech contains all manner of false starts, hesitations... | 1983 | 19 |
FACTORING RECURSION AND DEPENDENCIES: AN ASPECT OF TREE ADJOINING GRAMMARS (TAG) AND A COMPARISON OF SOME FORMAL PROPERTIES OF TAGS, GPSGS, PLGS, AND LPGS * Aravind K. Joshi Department of Computer and Information Science R. 268 Moore School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 I.IWr... | 1983 | 2 |
D-Theory: Talking about Talking about Trees Mitchell P. Marcus Donald Hindle Margaret M. Fleck Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 Linguists, including computational linguists, have always been fond of talking about trees. In this paper, we outline a theory of linguistic structure wh... | 1983 | 20 |
PARSING AS DEDUCTION l Fernando C. N. Pereira David H. D. Warren Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park CA 04025 Abstract By exploring the relationship between parsing and deduction, a new and more general view of chart parsing is obtained, which e... | 1983 | 21 |
DESIGN OF A KNOWLEDGE-BASED REPORT GENERATOR Karen Kukich University of Pittsburgh Bell Telephone Laboratories Murray ~tll, NJ 07974 ABSTRACT Knowledge-Based Report Generation is a technique for automatically generating natural language reports from computer databases. It is so named becau... | 1983 | 22 |
MENU-BASED NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING Harry R. Tennant, Kenneth M. Ross, Richard M. Saenz, Craig W. Thompson, and James R. Miller Computer Science Laboratory Central Research Laboratories Texas Instruments Incorporated Dallas, Texas ABSTRACT This paper describes the NLMenu System, a me... | 1983 | 23 |
Knowledge Structures in UC, the UNIX* Consultantt David N. Chin Division of Computer Science Department of EECS University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA. 94720 ABSTRACT The knowledge structures implemented in UC, the UNLX Consultant are sufficient for UC to reply to a large range of us... | 1983 | 24 |
Discourse Pragmatics and Ellipsis Resolution in Task-Oriented Natural Language Interfaces Jaime G. Carbonell Computer Science Department Carnegie-Mellon University. P!ttsburgh, PA 15213 Abstract This paper reviews discourse phenomena that occur frequently in task.oriented man.machine dialogs, re... | 1983 | 25 |
Crossed Serial Dependencies: i low-power parseable extension to GPSG Henry Thompson Department of Artificial Intelligence and Program in Cognitive Science University of Edinburgh Hope Park Square, Meadow Lane Edinburgh EH8 9NW SCOTLAND ABSTRACT An extension to the GPSG grammatical forma... | 1983 | 3 |
Formal Constraints on Metarules* Stuart M. Shieber, Susan U. Stucky, Hans Uszkoreit, and Jane J. Robinson SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, California Abstract Metagrammaticai formalisms that combine context-free phrase structure rules and metarules (MPS grammars) allow con- ci... | 1983 | 4 |
A PROLEGOMENON TO SITUATION SEMANTICS David J. Israel Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Cambridge, MA 02238 ABSTRACT An attempt is made to prepare Computational Linguistics for Situation Semantics. I INTRODUCTION The editors of the AI Journal recently hit upon the nice notion of corresponden... | 1983 | 5 |
A Modal Temporal Logic for Reasoning about Change Eric Mays Department of Computer and Information Science Moore School of Electrical Engineerlng/D2 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 ABSTRACT We examine several behaviors for query systems that become possible with the ability to ... | 1983 | 6 |
PROVIDING A UNIFIED ACCOUNT OF DEFINITE NOUN PHRASES IN DISCOURSE Barbara J. Grosz ,M'tificial Intelligence Center SRI International Menlo Park. CA Aravind K. Joshi Dept. of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Scott Wcinstein De... | 1983 | 7 |
USING %-CALCULUS TO REPRESENT MF~kNINGS IN LOGIC GRAMMARS* David Scott Warren Computer Science Department SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794 ABSTRACT This paper descrlbes how meanings are repre- sented in a semantic grammar for a fragment of English in the logic programming language Prolo... | 1983 | 8 |
AN IMPROPER TREATMENT OF QUANTIFICATION IN ORDINARY ENGLISH Jerry R. Hobbs SRI International Menlo Park, California i. The Problem Consider the sentence In most democratic countries most politicians can fool most of the people on almost every issue most of the time. In the currently ... | 1983 | 9 |
Multilingual Text Processing in a Two-Byte Code Lloyd B. Anderson Ecological Linguistics 316 "A" st. s. E. Washington, D. C., 20003 ABS~ACT National and international standards commit- tees are now discussing a two-byte code for multi- lingual information processing. This provides for 65,5... | 1984 | 1 |
DENORMALIZATION AND CROSS REFERENCING IN THEORETICAL LEXICOGRAPHY Joseph E. Grimes DMLL, Morrill Hall, Cornell University Ithaca NY lh853 USA Summer Institute of Linguistics 7500 West Camp Wisdom Road Dallas TX 75236 USA ABSTRACT A computational vehicle for lexicography was designed to keep t... | 1984 | 10 |
EXPERT SYSTEMS AND OTHER NEW TECHNIQUES IN MT SYSTEMS Christian BOITET - Ren~ GERBER Groupe d'Etudes pour la Traduction Automatique BP n ° 68 Universit~ de Grenoble 38402 Saint-Martin d'H~res FRANCE ABSTRACT Our MT systems integrate many advanced con- cepts from the fields of computer science... | 1984 | 100 |
ROBUST PROCESSING IN MACHINE TRANSLATION Doug Arnold, Rod Johnson, Centre for Cognitive Studies, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, U.K. Centre for Computational Linguistics UMIST, Manchester, M60 8QD, U.K. ABSTRACT In this paper we provide an abstract characterisation ... | 1984 | 101 |
Disambiguating Grammatically Ambiguous Sentences By Asking M-~saru Tomita Computer Science Department Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Abstract The problem addressed in this paper is to disambiguate grammatically ambiguous input semences by asking the user. wh... | 1984 | 102 |
AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION IN THE HUMAN SYNTACTIC PARSER: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY Howard S. Kurtzman Department of Psychology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 (This paper presents in summary form some major points of Chapter 3 of Kurtzman, 1984.) Models of the human syntactic parsi... | 1984 | 103 |
Conceptual Analysis of Garden-Path Sentences Michael J. Pazzani The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA 01730 ABSTRACT By integrating syntactic and semantic processing, our parser (LAZY) is able to deterministically parse sentences which syntactically appear to be garden path sentences ... | 1984 | 104 |
LANGUAGE GENERATION FROM CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE: SYNTHESIS OF GERMAN IN A JAPANESE/GERMAN MT PROJECT J. Laubsch, D. Roesner, K. Hanakata, A. Lesniewski Projekt SEMSYN, Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Stuttgart Herdweg 51, D-7000 Stuttgart i, West Germany This paper idescribes the current state of th... | 1984 | 105 |
NAtural Language driven Image Generation Giovanni Adorni, Mauro Di Manzo and Fausto Giunchiglis Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences University of Genoa Via Opera Pia i] A - 16145 Genoa - Italy ABSTRACT In this paper the experience made through the development of a NAtural ... | 1984 | 106 |
Conceptual and Linguistic Decisions in Generation Laurence DANLOS LADL (CNRS) Universit~ de Paris 7 2, Place Jussieu 7S00S Paris, France ABSTRACT Generation of texts in natural language requires making conceptual and linguistic decisions. This paper shows first that these decisions involve... | 1984 | 107 |
A Computational Analysis of Complex Noun Phrmms in N,,vy Messages Elaine Marsh Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence Naval Research Laboratory - Code 7510 Washington, D.C. 20375 ABS TRACT Methods of text compression in Navy messages are not limited to sentence fragments and th... | 1984 | 108 |
ANOTHER LOOK AT NOMINAL COMPOUNDS Pierre Isabelle D~partement de linguistique Universit~ de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. A, Montreal, Qua., Canada H)C )37 ABSTRACT We present a progress report on our research on nominal compounds (NC's). Recent approaches to this probiem in linguistics and natural ... | 1984 | 109 |
Lexicon Features for Japanese Syntactic Analysis in Mu-Project-JE Yoshiyuki Sakamoto Electrotechnical Laboratory Sakura-mura, Niihari-gun, Ibsraki, Japan Masayuki Satoh The Japan Information Center of Science and Technology Nagata-cho, Chiyeda-ku Tokyo, Japan Tetsuya Ishikawa ... | 1984 | 11 |
SEMANIIC PARSING AS GRAPH LANGUAGE TRANSFORMATION - A MULIIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO PARSING HIGHLY INFLECTIONAL LANGUAGES Eero Hyv~nen He]sJnkJ IJniversity of TechnoloQy DiaJtal SysLems Laboratory OtakaarJ 5A n215n Espoo 15 FINLAND ABSTRACT The structure of many languages with ... | 1984 | 110 |
HANDLING SYNTACTICAL AMBIGUITY IN MACHINE TRANSLATION Vladimir Pericliev Institute of Industrial Cybernetics and Robotics Acad. O.Bontchev Sir., bl.12 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria ABSTRACT The difficulties to be met with the resolu- tion of syntactical ambiguity ... | 1984 | 111 |
ARGUMENTATION IN REPRESENTATION SEMANTICS * Pierre-Yves RACCAH ERA 430 - C.N.R.S. Conseil d'Etat Palais Royal 75100 Paris RP ABSTRACT It seems rather natural to admit that language use is governed by rules that relate signs, forms and meanings to possible i... | 1984 | 112 |
VOICE SIMULATION: FACTORS AFFECTING QUALITY AND NATURALNESS B. Yegnanarayana Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Madras-60O 036, India J.M. Naik and D.G. Childers Department of Electrical Engineering University of Florida, Galnesville, FL 32611, U.S.A. ... | 1984 | 113 |
INTERPRETING SYNTACTICALLY ILL-FORMED SENTENCES Leonardo LESMO and Pietro TORASSO Dipartimento di Informatica - Universita' di Torino Corso Massimo D'Azeglio 42 - 10125 Torino - ITALY ABSTRACT The paper discusses three different kinds of syntactic ill-formedness: ellipsis, conjunctions, and a... | 1984 | 114 |
AN INT~ATIONAL DELPHI POLL ON FUTURE TRENDS IN "INFORMATION LINGUISTICS" Rainer Kuhlen Universitast Konstanz Informationswissenschaft Box 6650 D-7750 Konstanz I, West Germany ABSTRACT The results of an international Delphi poll on information linguistics which was carried out between... | 1984 | 115 |
Machine Translation: its History, Current Status, and Future Prospects Jonathan Slocum Abstract Elements ot the history, state of the art, and probable future of Machine Translation (MT) are discussed. The treatment is largely tutorial, based on the assumpt... | 1984 | 116 |
Toward a Redefinition of Yea/No Questions Julia Hirschberg Department of Computer and Information Science Moore School/D0 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 ABSTRACT While both theoretical and empirical studies of question- answering have revealed the inadequacy of tradition... | 1984 | 12 |
THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF USER-DEFINED MODIFIERS IN A TRANSPORTABLE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSOR Bruce W. Ballard Dept. of Computer Science Duke University Durham, N.C. 27708 ABSTRACT The Layered Domain Class system (LDC) is an experimental natural language processor ... | 1984 | 13 |
Interaction of Knowledge Sources in a Portable Natural Language Interface Carole D. Hafner Computer Science Department General Motors Research Laboratories Warren, MI 48090 Abstract This paper describes a general approach to the design of natural language interfaces that has evolved during th... | 1984 | 14 |
USES OF C-GP.APHS lil A PROTOTYPE FOR ALrFC~ATIC TRNLSLATION, Marco A. CLEMENTE-SALAZAR Centro de Graduados e Investigaci6n, Instltuto Tecnol6gico de Chihuahua, Av. Tecnol6gico No. 2909, 31310 Chihuahua, Chih., MEXICO. ABSTRACT This paper presents a prototype, not com- pletely operational, that ... | 1984 | 15 |
QUASI-INDEXICAL REFERENCE IN PROPOSITIONAL SEMANTIC NETWORKS William J. Rapaport Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063 Departmeot of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 Stuart C. Shapiro Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 ABSTRACT We ... | 1984 | 16 |
The Costs of Inheritance in Semantic Networks Rob't F. Simmons The University of Texas, Austin Abstract Questioning texts represented in semantic relations I requires the recognition that synonyms, instances, and hyponyms may all satisfy a questioned term. A basic proc... | 1984 | 17 |
FUNCTIONAL UNIFICATION GRAMMAR: A FORMALISM FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION Martin Kay Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto California 94304 and CSLI, Stanford Abstract Functional Unification Grammar provides an opportunity to encompass within one formalism and comput... | 1984 | 18 |
COMPUTER SIMULATION OF SPONTANEOUS SPEECH PRODUCTION Bengt Sigurd Dept of Linguistics and Phonetics Helgonabacken 12, S-223 62 Lund, SWEDEN ABSTRACT This paper pinpoints some of the problems faced when a computer text production model (COMMENTATOR) is to produce spontaneous speech, in particular... | 1984 | 19 |
CONVEYING IMPLICIT CONTENT IN NARRATIVE SUMMARW~S Malcolm E. Cook, Wendy G. Lehnert, David D. ~ d Department of Computer and Information Science University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 ABSTRACT One of the key characteristics of any summary is that it must ... | 1984 | 2 |
LIMITED DOMAIN SYSTEMS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING S G Pulman, Linguistics, EAS University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7Tj, UK. This abstract describes a natural language system which deals usefully with ungrammatical input and describes some actual and potential applications of it in computer aided s... | 1984 | 20 |
G~T : A GENERAL TRANSDUCER FOR TEACHING C~TIONAL LINGUISTICS P. Shann J.L. Cochard Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies University of Geneva Switzerland ABSTRACT The GTI~syst~m is a tree-to-tree transducer developed for teaching purposes in machine transla- tion. The tr... | 1984 | 21 |
A PARSING ARCHITECTURE BASED ON DISTRIBUTED MEMORY MACHINES Jon M. Slack Department of Psychology Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA ENGLAND ABSTRACT The paper begins by defining a class of distributed memory machines which have useful properties as retrieval and filtering devices. Thes... | 1984 | 22 |
AUTOMATED DETERMINATION OF SUBLANGUAGE SYNTACTIC USAGE Ralph Grbhman and Ngo Thanh Nhan Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University New York, NY 10012 Elalne Marsh Navy Center for Applied 1~se, arch in ~ Intel~ Naval ~ Laboratory Wx,~hinm~, DC 20375 Lynel~ Hirxe... | 1984 | 23 |
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