Artificial intelligence publications

It has been said many times that semantic nets are mere notational variants of predicate calculus. But before we lay down our nets, we ought at least to be clear…

A group that ultimately grew into a major world center of artificial intelligence research, a center that has endured twenty-five years of boom and bust in fashion, has "graduated" over…

Perceptual information is not readily captured in terms of simple truths and falsities or in terms of probabilistic estimates, when the appropriate statistical data are lacking.

The Image Understanding Testbed is a system of hardware and software that is designed to facilitate the integration, testing, and evaluation of implemented research concepts in machine vision.

What is the place of logic in knowledge representation? It is argued that the answer to this question depends on what one means by logic.

Meta-rule phrase structure grammars (MPS grammars ) have been shown to be an extremely powerful formalism in need of constraints from both the computational and the linguist points of view.

The purpose of the IU Testbed is to provide a means for transferring technology from the DARPA-sponsored program to DMA and other organizations in the defense community.

The ideas are illustrated by describing in detail one sizable prologue program which implements a simple compiler the advantages and practicability of using prologue for real compiler implementation are discussed.

An attempt is made to compare Computational Linguistics with Situational Semantics.

A new time representation is described that allows a continuously changing world to be represented, so that queries about the truth of a proposition at an instant or over an…

A Preface by David Israel relates these chapters tothe general considerations of philosophers and psycholinguists.