Publications
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The Contributing Influence Of Speech and Interaction On Human, Discourse Patterns
One goal of this chapter is to provide a comparison of the discourse and performance characteristics of instructions presented in three different modalities, each of which was classified according to…
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Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning
We present a high-level specification of the practical-reasoning component of an architecture for a resource-bounded rational agent.
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A Prolog-Like Inference System For Computing Minimum-Cost Abductive Explanations In Natural-Language Interpretation
To facilitate the computation of minimum-cost explanations, the inference system, unlike others such as Prolog, is designed to avoid the repeated use of the same instance of an axiom or…
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P-PATR: A Compiler For Unification-Based Grammars
P-PATR is a compiler for unification-based grammars that is written in Quintus Prolog running on a Sun 2 workstation. PATR is a simple, unification-based formalism capable of encoding a wide…
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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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Coarse Coding For Material and Object Identification
A new coarse-coding technique is presented for labeling image pixels and regions to match exemplars or multivariate material signatures.
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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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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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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…