Publications
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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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The Literal Goal and Discourse Purpose Of Referring
The view of communication intentions originates with Grice's analysis of the concept of meaning. But much research in computational linguists though obviously influenced by Grice, has nevertheless stressed the role…
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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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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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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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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…