Author: SRI International

  • Map-Guided Interpretation Of Remotely-Sensed Imagery

    Geometric correspondence between a sensed image and a symbolic reference map is established in an initial stage of processing by adjusting parameters of a sensor model so that image features predicted from the map optimally match corresponding features extracted from the sensed image.

  • VALS™ market research

    VALS™ market research

    SRI designed the Values and Lifestyles™ (VALS) program, a novel market research tool for determining the motivations behind consumer purchasing decisions.

  • Why Is Discourse Coherent?

    In this paper, it is argued that coherence can be characterized in terms of a set of ‘coherence relations’ between segments of a discourse. It is shown, from an abstract description of the discourse situation, that these relations correspond to the kinds of communicative work that needs to get done in discourse.

  • Prospects For Industrial Vision

    This paper builds a case for needed additional levels of representation and outlines the design of a general-purpose computer-vision system capable of high performance in a wide variety of industrial vision tasks.

  • Machine Vision and Robotics: Industrial Requirements

    The importance of human vision is a major motivation for the intense interest in and significant research effort devoted to machine vision.

  • Why Ask?

    In this paper, we address the problem, ‘What makes an answer appropriate?’ We do so by investigating indirect answers to questions in task-oriented dialogues.

  • Natural Language Access To A Melanoma Data Base

    This paper describes ongoing research towards developing a system that will allow physicians personal access to patient medical data through natural language queries to support both patient management and clinical research.

  • Coherence and Coreference

    In this paper, formal definitions are given for several coherence relations, based on the operations of an inference system; that is, the relations between successive portions of a discourse are characterized in terms of the inferences that can be drawn from each.

  • Investigating The Process Of Natural Language Communication

    This research seeks to identify and computationally formalize the knowledge and processes needed for participation in natural language dialogs about ongoing tasks.

  • Engineering Design Viewed as an Activity in Artificial Intelligence

    The process of problem solving has been studied in artificial intelligence research for the past few decades. This paper describes the engineering design process from several viewpoints, and then relates this process to procedures that can be implemented using computers.

  • Focusing in Dialog

    This paper examines focusing in dialog, discusses focusing mechanisms based on domain structure clues, and, from this perspective, indicates future research problems entailed in modeling the focusing process more generally.

  • Encoding Knowledge In Partitioned Networks

    This paper discusses network notations for encoding a number of different kinds of knowledge, including taxonomic information; general statements involving quantification; information about processes and procedures; the delineation of local contexts, beliefs, and wishes; and the relationships between syntactic units and their interpretations.