Developing a natural language interface to complex data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
DIAGRAM: a grammar for dialogues
Communications of the ACM
An English language question answering system for a large relational database
Communications of the ACM
Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
Communications of the ACM
Natural Language Information Processing: A Computer Grammmar of English and Its Applications
Natural Language Information Processing: A Computer Grammmar of English and Its Applications
Understanding Natural Language
Understanding Natural Language
Understanding Spoken Language
The Theory of Parsing, Translation, and Compiling
The Theory of Parsing, Translation, and Compiling
The ROBOT System: Natural language processing applied to data base query
ACM '78 Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference
Prolog - the language and its implementation compared with Lisp
Proceedings of the 1977 symposium on Artificial intelligence and programming languages
Computational Linguistics
Responding intelligently to unparsable inputs
Computational Linguistics
On the need for parsing ill-formed input
Computational Linguistics
Questioning the need for parsing ill-formed inputs
Computational Linguistics
The fitted parse: 100% parsing capability in a syntactic grammar of English
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
Scruffy text understanding: design and implementation of the NOMAD system
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
Augmented phrase structure grammars
TINLAP '75 Proceedings of the 1975 workshop on Theoretical issues in natural language processing
Semantic interpretation using KL-ONE
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Problem localization strategies for pragmatics processing in natural-language front ends
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Understanding pragmatically ill-formed input
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An improved heuristic for ellipsis processing
ACL '82 Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '80 Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Towards a self-extending parser
ACL '79 Proceedings of the 17th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Linguistic analysis of natural language communication with computers
COLING '80 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Computational linguistics
Discovery procedures for sublanguage selectional patterns: initial experiments
Computational Linguistics
Integrated processing produces robust understanding
Computational Linguistics
Communications of the ACM
Techniques for automatically correcting words in text
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on mathematical properties of grammatical formalisms
Responding to semantically ill-formed input
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
Evaluation of a parallel chart parser
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
Yet another chart-based technique for parsing ill-formed input
ANLC '94 Proceedings of the fourth conference on Applied natural language processing
Compansion: From research prototype to practical integration
Natural Language Engineering
Corpus-based syntactic error detection using syntactic patterns
Proceedings of the workshop on Student research
How to detect grammatical errors in a text without parsing it
EACL '87 Proceedings of the third conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
EACL '87 Proceedings of the third conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Recovery strategies for parsing extragrammatical language
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on ill-formed input
Semantic interpretation using KL-ONE
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Problem localization strategies for pragmatics processing in natural-language front ends
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Understanding pragmatically ill-formed input
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Integrated control of chart items for error repair
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Some chart-based techniques for parsing ill-formed input
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
On representing governed prepositions and handling "incorrect" and novel prepositions
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Sentence fragments regular structures
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Syntactic normalization of spontaneous speech
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
When something is missing: ellipsis, coordination and the chart
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
Towards a more user-friendly correction
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Parsing spoken language: a semantic caseframe approach
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
Sensitive parsing: error analysis and explanation in an intelligent language tutoring system
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Chart parsing of robust grammars
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Syntactic preferences for robust parsing with semantic preferences
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Knowledge extraction from texts by SINTESI
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 4
Design of a hybrid deterministic parser
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
GramCheck: a grammar and style checker
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
An agreement corrector for Russian
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
A linguistic theory of robustness
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Parsing for grammar and style checking
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Parsing Ill-Formed Text Using an Error Grammar
Artificial Intelligence Review
Speech recognition in parallel
HLT '89 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
A portable approach to last resort parsing and interpretation
HLT '93 Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology
A speech-first model for repair detection and correction
HLT '93 Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology
Out of the laboratory: a case study with the IRUS natural language interface
HLT '86 Proceedings of the workshop on Strategic computing natural language
PCFGs with syntactic and prosodic indicators of speech repairs
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Automatic interpretation of loosely encoded input
Artificial Intelligence
Acquiring Rules for Rules: Neuro-Dynamical Systems Account for Meta-Cognition
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Interpreting loosely encoded questions
AAAI'04 Proceedings of the 19th national conference on Artifical intelligence
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
ULINK: a semantics-driven approach to understanding ungrammatical input
AAAI'91 Proceedings of the ninth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Rules for ontology population from text of Malaysia medicinal herbs domain
RSKT'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Rough set and knowledge technology
Syntactic error detection and correction in date expressions using finite-state transducers
Natural Language Engineering
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If natural language processing systems are ever to achieve natural, cooperative behavior, they must be able to process input that is ill-formed lexically, syntactically, semantically, or pragmatically. Systems must be able to partially understand, or at least give specific, appropriate error messages, when input does not correspond to their model of language and of context.We propose meta-rules and a control structure under which they are invoked as a framework for processing ill-formed input. The left-hand side of a meta-rule diagnoses a problem as a violated rule of normal processing. The right-hand side relaxes the violated rule and states how processing may be resumed, if at all.Examples discussed in the paper include violated grammatical tests, omitted articles, homonyms, spelling/typographical errors, unknown words, violated selection restrictions, personification, and metonymy. An implementation of a meta-rule processor within the framework of an augmented transition network parser is also described.