Publications
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Telegram: A Grammar Formalism For Language Planning
The TELEGRAM system described in this paper solves this problem by annotating a unification grammar with assertions about how grammatical choices are used to achieve various goals, and by enabling…
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Shape From Shading: An Assessment
In dealing with the question of what surface parameters can be recovered locally from image shading, we show that, at most, shading determines relative surface curvature, i.e., the ratio of…
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A Framework For Processing Partially Free Word Order
The linguistic framework of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar offers tools for dealing with word order variation. Some slight modifications to the framework allow for an analysis of the German data…
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Formal Constraints On Metarules
We evaluate several proposals for constraining them, basing our assessment on computational tractability and explanatory adequacy. We show that none of them satisfies both criteria, and suggest new directions for…
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Sentence Disambiguation By A Shift-Reduce Parsing Technique
We have developed a parsing algorithm–a variant of the LALR(1) shift-reduce algorithm–that models the preference behavior of native speakers for a range of syntactic preference phenomena reported in the psycholinguistic…
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A New Characterization Of Attachment Preferences
By starting from a precise choice of parsing model, it is possible to give a simple and rigorous description of Minimal Attachment and Right Association that avoids some of the…
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A Representation Of Time For Planning
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…
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A General Approach To Machine Perception Of Linear, Structure In Imaged Data
In this paper we address a basic problem in machine perception: the tracing of "line-like" structures appearing in an image. It is shown that this problem can profitably be viewed…
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Mockingbird: a composer’s amanuensis
Mockingbird is a computer-based, display-oriented music notation editor.
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Interpreting Network Formalisms
The author attempts to sketch adequate semantic accounts for at least two (kinds of) semantic network formalisms; one, based on the notion of inheritance, one, not.
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Logic For Natural Language Analysis
This work investigates the use of formal logic as a practical tool for describing the syntax and semantics of a subset of English, and building a computer program to answer…
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Preface
A Preface by David Israel relates these chapters tothe general considerations of philosophers and psycholinguists.