The primary purpose of the Image Understanding (IU) Testbed is to provide a means for transferring technology from the DARPA-sponsored IU research program to DMA and other organizations in the defense community.
As previously reported in Fischler [1984] and Hannah [1984], SRI International is implementing a complete, state-of-the-art stereo system that will produce dense three-dimensional (3-D) data from stereo pairs of intensity images.
Jerry R. Hobbs, Douglas E. Appelt, & David Magerman
It is often assumed that when natural language processing meets the real world, the idea of aiming for complete and correct interpretations has to be abandoned.
This paper describes initial work on a methodology for creating natural-language processing capabilities for new databases without the need for intervention by specially trained experts.
The DIALOGIC system for syntactic analysis and semantic translation has been under development for over ten years, and during that time it has been used in a number of domains in both database interface and message-processing applications.
In this paper, we address the problem, ``What makes an answer appropriate?’’ We do so by investigating indirect answers to questions in task-oriented dialogues.
When people produce a discourse, what needs are they responding to when they make it coherent, and what form does this coherence take? In this paper, it is argued that coherence can be characterized in terms of a set of ``coherence relations’’ between segments of a discourse.
