Author: SRI International
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A D-Ladder User’s Guide
D-LADDER (DIAMOND-based Language Access to Distributed Data with Error Recovery) is a computer system designed to provide answers to questions posed at the terminal in a subset of natural language regarding a distributed data base of naval command and control information. The system accepts natural-language questions about the data.
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A Ladder User’s Guide (Revised)
LADDER (Language Access to Distributed Data with Error Recovery) is a computer system designed to provide answers to questions posed at the terminal in a subset of natural language regarding a distributed data base of naval command and control information.
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Diagram: A Grammar For Dialogues
This paper presents an explanatory overview of a large and complex grammar, DIAGRAM, that is used in a computer system for interpreting English dialogue.
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Crisis In Ushasa: A Simulation Activity For Government Classes
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The Interpretation Of Verb Phrases In Dialogs
Presented and discussed are the kinds of knowledge necessary for interpreting references to actions, as well as algorithms for using that knowledge in interpreting dialog utterances about ongoing tasks and for drawing inferences about the task situation that are based on a given interpretation.
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Conversation As Planned Behavior
In this paper, a framework for investigating conversation, which for convenience will be called the Planning Approach, is developed from this hypothesis. It suggests a style of analysis to apply to conversation, analysis in terms of the participants’ goals, plans, and beliefs, and it indicates a consequent program of research to be pursued.
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Metaphor, Metaphor Schemata, and Selective Inferencing
Three examples of metaphors are examined in detail in this light–a simple metaphor, a spatial metaphor schema, and a novel metaphor.
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Natural Language Processing
PARC, which is now part of SRI, invented computational linguistic technologies based on understanding the structure of language.
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An Iconic Transform For Sketch Completion and Shape Abstraction
This paper shows how a simple label propagation technique, in conjunction with some novel ideas about how labels can be applied to an image to express semantic knowledge, lead to the simplification of a number of diverse and difficult image analysis tasks.
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Artificial Intelligence: State Of The Art
The problems tackled by research workers and AI are typically large, complex, and involves ambiguity and uncertainty. AI attempts to come to grips with the real world, with all its confusion and richness, and to interact with people, with all their irrationalities and idiosyncrasies.
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Handling Complex Queries In A Distributed Data Base
As part of the continuing development of the LADDER system, we have substantially expanded the capabilities of the data base access component that serves as the interface between the natural-language front end of LADDER and the data base management systems on which the data is actually stored.
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Theoretical Foundations Of Linguistics and Automatic Text Processing
The interdisciplinary research required to design such systems have a common center, conceptually, in the development of new kinds of lexical information, since words are not only linguistics objects, they are also psychological objects that evoke experiences from which meanings can be inferred.