Revised telephone interviewer manual specifications prepared for the SRI-led National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS) by RTI International.
This note presents a formal semantic characterization of the major concepts and constructs of fuzzy logic in terms of notions of distance, closeness, and similarity between pairs of possible worlds.
This paper describes a parsing system specifically designed for spoken rather than written input. The parser is part of a project in progress at Stanford Research Institute to develop a computer system for understanding speech.
Linguistic competence cannot in principle be divorced from linguistic performance in order to abstract universal properties of grammars. Rules of grammar inevitably incorporate perceptual strategies and constraints, and grammaticality and acceptability are related to predictability.
A preliminary version of QLISP is described. QLISP permits free intermingling of QA4-like constructs with INTERLISP code. The preliminary version contains features similar to those of QA4 except for the backtracking of control environments.
Donald E. Walker, William H. Paxton, B. Grosz, Gary G. Hendrix, Ann E. Robinson, Jane J. Robinson, & J. Slocum
This paper describes the procedures for integrating knowledge from different sources in the SRI speech understanding system. A language definition system coordinates–at the phrase level–information from syntax, semantics, and discourse in the course of the interpretation of an utterance.
This paper introduces the first implemented version of the problem solving language QA4 and illustrates the application of this language to some simple robot planning problems. Features of the language include built-in backtracking, parallel processing, pattern matching, and set manipulation.
The QA4 programming language is designed for the writing of theorem-provers, robot planners, and problem solvers. This note presents an informal introduction to the unusual programming concepts used in the construction of such problem-solving programs.
