SRI conducted a comprehensive study of alternative teacher certification programs to determine the characteristics of those that were effective. This publication provides the study's initial findings.
Jerry R. Hobbs, Mark E. Stickel, Douglas E. Appelt, & Paul Martin
Abduction is inference to the best explanation. In the TACITUS project at SRI we have developed an approach to abductive inference, called "weighted abduction," that has resulted in a significant simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized.
The data we analyze is from a series of life history interviews with a career heroin addict in New York, collected by Agar (1981). We analyze this data in terms of a combination of two AI approaches to discourse.
Ann E. Robinson, Douglas E. Appelt, Barbara J. Grosz, Gary G. Hendrix, & Jane J. Robinson
This paper describes the results of a three-year research effort investigating the knowledge and processes needed for participation in natural-language dialogs about ongoing mechanical-assembly tasks.
This report presents a description of the basic goals and philosophy of a research program aimed at developing the technology needed to support systems that can be tutored in English about new subject areas, and that can therefore aid the initial or subsequent user ...
S. Houzelle, T.M. Strat, Pascal V. Fua, & M.A. Fischler
Two of the problems that the user of an image understanding system must continuously face are the choice of an appropriate algorithm and the setting of its associated parameters.
This document describes an application-oriented system for creating natural language interfaces between existing computer programs (such as data base management systems) and casual users.
This note describes LIFER, a practical facility for creating natural language interfaces to other computer software. Emphasizing human engineering, LIFER has bundled natural language specification and parsing technology into one convenient package.
The outline of a unified theory of local pragmatics phenomena is presented, including an approach to the problems of reference resolution, metonymy, and interpreting nominal compounds.
In this paper we describe an implemented program for localizing the expression of many types of syntactic ambiguity, in the logical forms of sentences, in a manner convenient for subsequent inferential processing.
