Speech & natural language publications

Koskenniemi’s two-level morphological analysis system can be improved upon by using a PATR-like unification grammar for handling the morphosyntax instead of continuation classes, and by incorporating the notion of negative…

The PATR-II grammar formalism has been developed over the last few years at SRI International as a grammar formalism for codifying fragments of natural language.

We present a limited solution to the problem of belief revision within Reiter’s nonmonotonic Default Logic and show how to formulate the consequences of many uses of declarative sentences.

An analysis of English tense and aspect is presented that specifies temporal precedence relations with a sentence. The relevant reference points for interpretation are taken to be the initial and…

One goal of this chapter is to provide a comparison of the discourse and performance characteristics of instructions presented in three different modalities, each of which was classified according to…

The present study examined two speech modalities that represent opposites on the spectrum of speaker interaction — the telephone dialogue and audiotape monologue.

To facilitate the computation of minimum-cost explanations, the inference system, unlike others such as Prolog, is designed to avoid the repeated use of the same instance of an axiom or…

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…

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…

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…

This paper explores the question of what level of linguistic practice is best suited for use in natural-language processing (NLP) efforts. In particular, I argue that because the goals and…

In this paper we present a theory of referring. This theory is presented within the framework of a general theory of speech acts and rationality advanced by Cohen and Levesque.…