Author: SRI International

  • Computational Stereo

    We broadly define computational stereo as the recovery of the three-dimensional characteristics of a scene from multiple images taken from different points of view.

  • Parallelism in Planning and Problem Solving: Reasoning About Resources

    This paper describes and presents some new techniques that are implemented in an actual planning system and are useful in seeking solutions to these problems.

  • A Probabilistic Model For Uncertain Problem Solving

    The model presented is a probabilistic generalization of the familiar notion of problem space. The specification of uncertain states and unreliable operators is discussed.

  • Research On Natural-Language Processing At SRI

    Two of our major current efforts are a pair of research projects under the sponsorship of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: the TEAM and KLAUS projects. These two projects share a common core-language-processing system called DIALOGIC.

  • Practical Natural-Language Processing by Computer

    This paper describes the state of the art in practical computer systems for natural-language processing. We consider why one would want to use natural language to communicate with computers at all, looking at both general issues and specific applications.

  • The Database As Model: A Metatheoretic Approach

    This paper presents a method of formally representing the information that is available to a user of a relational database. The intended application area is deductive question-answering systems that must access an existing relational database.

  • Recognizing Intended Meaning and Speakers’ Plans

    This paper presents a new model for recognizing the speaker’s intended meaning in determining a response.

  • Machine Learning for Information Management

    The core idea is that of a compiler system that can hold a conversation with a user in English about his specific domain of interest, subsequently retrieve and display information conveyed by the user, and apply various types of external software systems to solve user problems.

  • A Simple Sensor to Gather Three-Dimensional Data

    In this paper straightforward procedures are presented for calibrating a camera, computing the equation of a plane, and combining a camera calibration and an equation of a light plane to form a “sensor” matrix.

  • Computational Strategies For Analyzing The Organization and Use Of Information

    A program of research is presented that is producing systems that make it possible to study the organization and use of information and, at the same time, provide more effective support for people engaged in those activities.

  • Artificial Intelligence: Engineering, Science Or Slogan?

    This paper presents the view that artificial intelligence (AI) is primarily concerned with propositional languages for representing knowledge and with techniques for manipulating these representations.

  • Natural-Language Processing Part One: The Field In Perspective

    The intent of the authors is to demonstrate that natural-language processing techniques are useful now, to reveal the richness of the computations performed by human natural-language communicators, and to explain why the fluent use of natural language by machines remains an elusive aspiration.