Author: SRI International

  • Reconstructing Smooth Surfaces From Partial, Noisy Information

    We describe a solution for an important special case: the interpolation of surfaces that are locally spherical or cylindrical from initial orientation values and constraints on orientation.

  • Scene Modeling: A Structural Basis For Image Description

    In this paper a structural approach to modeling is argued for that explicitly relates image appearance to the scene characteristics from which it arose.

  • A Storage Representation For Efficient Access To Large, Multidimensional Arrays

    This paper addresses problems associated with accessing elements of large multidimensional arrays when the order of access is either unpredictable or is orthogonal to the conventional order of array storage.

  • 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, dynamic plan repair, and distributed robotics.

  • 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.

  • 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 data provided by error-prone feature detectors.

  • 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 regarding a distributed data base of naval command and control information. The system accepts natural-language questions about the data.

  • 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 a distributed data base of naval command and control information.

  • 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.

  • Crisis In Ushasa: A Simulation Activity For Government Classes

  • 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 for drawing inferences about the task situation that are based on a given interpretation.

  • 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 to conversation, analysis in terms of the participants’ goals, plans, and beliefs, and it indicates a consequent program of research to be pursued.