Author: SRI International
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Recognizing Objects In A Natural Environment: A Contextual Vision (CVS)
We identify a number of weaknesses in current recognition systems and propose specific mechanisms for dealing with some of these problems.
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Generation and Recognition Of Inflectional Morphology
Koskenniemi’s two-level morphological analysis system can be improved upon by using a PATR-like unification grammar for handling the morphosyntax instead of continuation classes, and by incorporating the notion of negative rule feature into the phonological rule interpreter.
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The Vision Problem: Exploiting Parallel Computation
This technical report consists of papers presented at the session wherein the major problems in computer vision are outlined, and the “signals to symbols”and the “monolithic computing” (MC) approaches to these problems are described.
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Reimplementation of the Stanford Stereo System- Integration Experiments with the SRI Baseline Stereo System
We describe experiments in stereo matching using a Lisp Machine implementation of the Baker stereo system developed at Stanford University.
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Cl-Patr Reference Manual
The PATR-II grammar formalism has been developed over the last few years at SRI International as a grammar formalism for codifying fragments of natural language.
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An Integrated Framework For Semantic and Pragmatic Interpretation
We report on a mechanism for semantic and pragmatic interpretation that has been designed to take advantage of the generally compositional nature of semantic analysis, without unduly constraining the order in which pragmatic decisions are made.
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Discourse Structure and Performance Efficiency In Interactive and Noninteractive Spoken Modalities
The present study examined two speech modalities that represent opposites on the spectrum of speaker interaction — the telephone dialogue and audiotape monologue.
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Tense, Aspect, and The Interpretation Of Tenseless Elements In English
An analysis of English tense and aspect is presented that specifies temporal precedence relations with a sentence. The relevant reference points for interpretation are taken to be the initial and terminal points of events in the world.
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The Contributing Influence Of Speech and Interaction On Human, Discourse Patterns
One goal of this chapter is to provide a comparison of the discourse and performance characteristics of instructions presented in three different modalities, each of which was classified according to the presence or absence of speech and interaction.
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A Prolog-Like Inference System For Computing Minimum-Cost Abductive Explanations In Natural-Language Interpretation
To facilitate the computation of minimum-cost explanations, the inference system, unlike others such as Prolog, is designed to avoid the repeated use of the same instance of an axiom or assumption.
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Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning
We present a high-level specification of the practical-reasoning component of an architecture for a resource-bounded rational agent.
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P-PATR: A Compiler For Unification-Based Grammars
P-PATR is a compiler for unification-based grammars that is written in Quintus Prolog running on a Sun 2 workstation. PATR is a simple, unification-based formalism capable of encoding a wide variety of grammars.