Author: SRI International

  • An INTERLISP Relational Data Base System

    INTERLISP, an interactive, development-oriented computer programming system, has been augmented to support applications requiring large data bases maintained on secondary store.

  • Establishing Context in Task-Oriented Dialogs

    This paper describes part of the discourse component of a speech understanding system for task-oriented dialogs, specifically, a mechanism for establishing a focus of attention to aid in identifying the referents of definite noun phrases.

  • A Tuneable Performance Grammar

    This paper describes a tuneable performance grammar currently being developed for speech understanding.

  • System Integration and Control in a Speech Understanding System

    This paper first describes the roles played by acoustics, syntax, semantics, and discourse, and shows how a language definition is used to integrate them into a system in a way that allows the interactions to be easily visible.

  • Semantic Processing For Speech Understanding

    The semantic component of the speech understanding system being developed jointly by SRI and SDC rules out phrase combinations that are not meaningful and produces semantic interpretations for combination that are.

  • Speech Generation from Semantic Nets

    A set of verb templates is being derived from a study of the surface syntax of some 3000 English verbs: the active forms of the verbs have been classified according to subject, object(s), and complement(s); these syntactic patterns, augmented with case names, are used as a grammar to control the generation of text.

  • Progress in Speech Understanding Research at SRI

    This paper describes research on the development of a speech understanding system capable of engaging a human operator in a conversation about a specific task domain.

  • A Structure For Plans and Behavior

    A new method for representing actions within a computer memory has been developed, and this new representation, called the procedural net, has been employed in developing new strategies for solving problems and monitoring the execution of the resulting solutions.

  • Deductive Retrieval Mechanisms for State Description Models

    This paper presents some programming facilities for modeling the semantics of a task domain and for describing the situations that occur in that domain as a task is being carried out.

  • Representation and Use of Knowledge in Vision

    This paper identifies fundamental information-processing principles relevant to representation and use of knowledge in vision and traces limitations of existing programs.

  • Expanding the Utility of Semantic Networks Through Partitioning

    These net spaces delimit the scopes of quantified variables, distinguish hypothetical and imaginary situations from reality, encode alternative worlds considered in planning, and focus attention at particular levels of detail.

  • Progress on a Computer Based Consultant

    Computer based consultants are systems that incorporate specialized bodies of knowledge and make this knowledge conveniently available to users who are not computer experts.