Author: SRI International
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Random Sample Consensus: A Paradigm for Model Fitting with Applications to Image Analysis and Automated Cartography
A major portion of this paper describes the application of RANSAC to the Location Determination Problem (LDP): Given an image depicting a set of landmarks with known locations, determine that point in space from which the image was obtained.
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Knowledge-Engineering Techniques and Tools in the Prospector Environment
Techniques and tools to assist in several phases of the knowledge-engineering process for developing an expert system are explored.
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Detection Of Rivers In Low-Resolution Aerial Imagery
This paper describes an operator for detecting rivers in low-resolution aerial imagery. The operator provides results that would allow graph-traversing routines to delineate these structures.
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Test-Score Semantics for Natural Languages and Meaning Representation via PRUF
In test-score semantics, predicates, propositions and other types of linguistic entities are treated as collections of elastic constraints on a set of objects or relations in a universe of discourse.
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Problems In Logical Form
This paper surveys some of the key problems that arise in defining a system of representation for the logical forms of English sentences and suggests possible approaches to their solution while examining specific problems in logical form.
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Transportable Natural-Language Interfaces To Databases
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. A prototype system using this methodology is described and an example transcript is presented.
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Automatic Deduction For Commonsense Reasoning: An Overview
This article provides an overview of the issues involved in drawing conclusions by means of deductive inference from bodies of commonsense knowledge represented by logical formulas.