Publications
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Plan Generation and Execution For Robotics
A number of problems in this area requiring further research are discussed, including dealing with time, planning for parallel execution, planning for information gathering, planning for planning, learning, interactive planning,…
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Interpreting Natural-Language Utterances In Dialogs About Tasks
This paper describes the results of a three-year research effort investigating the knowledge and processes needed for participation in natural-language dialogs about ongoing mechanical-assembly tasks.
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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…
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Random Sample Consensus: A Paradigm for Model Fitting with Applications to Image Analysis and Automated Cartography
RANSAC is capable of interpreting/smoothing data containing a significant percentage of gross errors, and is thus ideally suited for applications in automated image analysis where interpretation is based on the…
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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…
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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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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…
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Crisis In Ushasa: A Simulation Activity For Government Classes
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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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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…
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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…
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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…