Publications
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A Descriptive Model Of Reference Using Defaults
In this article we try to answer the following question: how do we let our audience know what we are talking about? How, in other words, do a speaker and…
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Management Of Miscommunications: Toward A System For Automatic Telephone, Interpretation Of Japanese-English Dialogues
This report presents exploratory research on miscommunications and their resolution during Japanese–English interpretation, based on interviews with experienced professional interpreters. "Brokering" is identified as a naturally occurring and central dialogue…
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A Uniform Architecture For Parsing and Generation
The use of a single grammar for both parsing and generation is an idea with a certain elegance, the desirability of which several researchers have noted. In this paper, we…
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A Practical Nonmonotonic Theory For Reasoning About Speech Acts
A prerequisite to a theory of the way agents understand speech acts is a theory of how their beliefs and intentions are revised as a consequence of events. This process…
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Rational Interaction As The Basis For Communication
This paper derives the basis of a theory of communication from a formal theory of rational interaction. The major result is a demonstration that illocutionary acts need neither be primitive,…
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The Descriptive Approach To Reference: Why It Is Difficult To Work With, and Why We Have To
The problem of reference is to determine how thoughts and sentences can be about objects. In searching for a more precise formulation, we may start by identifying four elements that…
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Donnellan’s Distinction As An Adequacy Test For A Referring Model
In this paper, I provide an analysis of the cognitive structures that underlie referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions. This endeavor should be worthwhile in an of itself, but…
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Methodological Notes On A Computational Model Of Referring
The act of referring is performed through the use and interpretation of noun phrases in a conversation.
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On Cheeseman: A response to Peter Cheeseman’s `An Inquiry into Computer Understanding’
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Center, AIC
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Explaining Evidential Analyses
One of the most highly touted virtues of knowledge-based expert systems is their ability to construct explanations for their lines of reasoning. However, there is a basic difficulty in generating…
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Localized Event-Based Reasoning For Multiagent Domains
This paper presents the GEM concurrency model and GEMPLAN, a multiagent planner based on this model. Unlike standard state-based AI representations, GEM is unique in its explicit emphasis on events…
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The Persistence of Derived Information
In this paper, we illustrate how such inferences add a new dimension of complexity to reasoning about change and show that failure to allow for such inferences can result in…