Speech & natural language publications

We present a semantic interpretation for belief sentences and show how this interpretation overcomes some of the difficulties of alternative approaches, especially those based on possible-world semantics.

This paper evaluates the capabilities of natural language processing systems against requirements and identifies crucial areas for future research in language processing, common-sense reasoning, and their coordination.

This paper describes focusing mechanisms based on domain structure clues which have been included in a computer system and, from this perspective, indicates future research problems entailed in modeling the…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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

This paper describes aspects of an intelligence interface that provides natural language access to a large body of data distributed over a computer network. The overall system architecture is presented,…

This report develops a representation of focus of attention that circumscribes discourse contexts within a general representation of knowledge. To formalize the notion of focus, the need for and the…

This paper reports the author’s results in designing, implementing, and testing a framework for a speech-understanding system. The work was done as part of a multi-disciplinary effort based on state-of-the-art…

As a dialog progresses, the objects and actions that are most relevant to the conversation, and hence in the focus of attention of the dialog participants, change. This paper describes…