Publications
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Rex Programmer’s Manual
This manual describes Rex, a programming language for specifying machines by declaratively describing their behavior. The Rex language consists of a set of Lisp functions that define primitive Rex machines…
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Integrated Split/Merge Image Segmentation
The KNIFE segmentation algorithm splits regions along object boundaries, thus avoiding rectangular quadtree artifacts and establishing a context for good statistical decisions.
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Classification-Based Tracking Of Objects and Material
SRI’s KNIFE image analysis system can be used for tracking objects and material classes from one image to another.
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A Survey Of Architectures For Distributed Artificial Intelligence
This report surveys literature and research in the field of distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) and provides an overview of computer architectures particularly suited to such research. It concentrates on work…
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The Literal Goal and Discourse Purpose Of Referring
The view of communication intentions originates with Grice’s analysis of the concept of meaning. But much research in computational linguists though obviously influenced by Grice, has nevertheless stressed the role…
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A Descriptive Model Of Reference Using Defaults
In this article we try to answer the following question: how do we let our audience know what we are talking about? How, in other words, do a speaker and…
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Management Of Miscommunications: Toward A System For Automatic Telephone, Interpretation Of Japanese-English Dialogues
This report presents exploratory research on miscommunications and their resolution during Japanese–English interpretation, based on interviews with experienced professional interpreters. “Brokering” is identified as a naturally occurring and central dialogue…
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A Uniform Architecture For Parsing and Generation
The use of a single grammar for both parsing and generation is an idea with a certain elegance, the desirability of which several researchers have noted. In this paper, we…
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A Practical Nonmonotonic Theory For Reasoning About Speech Acts
A prerequisite to a theory of the way agents understand speech acts is a theory of how their beliefs and intentions are revised as a consequence of events. This process…
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Rational Interaction As The Basis For Communication
This paper derives the basis of a theory of communication from a formal theory of rational interaction. The major result is a demonstration that illocutionary acts need neither be primitive,…
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The Descriptive Approach To Reference: Why It Is Difficult To Work With, and Why We Have To
The problem of reference is to determine how thoughts and sentences can be about objects. In searching for a more precise formulation, we may start by identifying four elements that…
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Donnellan’s Distinction As An Adequacy Test For A Referring Model
In this paper, I provide an analysis of the cognitive structures that underlie referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions. This endeavor should be worthwhile in an of itself, but…