Points: a theory of the structure of stories in memory
Readings in natural language processing
Talking to UNIX in English: an overview of UC
Communications of the ACM
In-Depth Understanding: A Computer Model of Integrated Processing for Narrative Comprehension
In-Depth Understanding: A Computer Model of Integrated Processing for Narrative Comprehension
PHRED: A Generator for Natural Language Interfaces
PHRED: A Generator for Natural Language Interfaces
Preference semantics, ill-formedness, and metaphor
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on ill-formed input
TINLAP '75 Proceedings of the 1975 workshop on Theoretical issues in natural language processing
Towards a self-extending parser
ACL '79 Proceedings of the 17th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The subworld concept lexicon and the lexicon management system
Computational Linguistics - Special issue of the lexicon
The self-extending phrasal lexicon
Computational Linguistics - Special issue of the lexicon
Encoding and acquiring meanings for figurative phrases
ACL '86 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Disambiguation and language acquisition through the phrasal lexicon
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
Semantic interpretation of pragmatic clues: connectives, modal verbs, and indirect speech acts
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Language acquisition: coping with lexical gaps
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
EBL: an approach to automatic lexical acquisition
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 4
Language acquisition: learning a hierarchy of phrases
IJCAI'87 Proceedings of the 10th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
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The problem of manually modifying the lexicon appears with any natural language processing program. Ideally, a program should be able to acquire new lexical entries from context, the way people learn. We address the problem of acquiring entire phrases, specifically figurative phrases, through augmenting a phrasal lexicon. Facilitating such a self-extending lexicon involves (a) disambiguation---selection of the intended phrase from a set of matching phrases, (b) robust parsing---comprehension of partially-matching phrases, and (c) error analysis---use of errors in forming hypotheses about new phrases. We have designed and implemented a program called RINA which uses demons to implement functional-grammar principles. RINA receives new figurative phrases in context and through the application of a sequence of failure-driven rules, creates and refines both the patterns and the concepts which hold syntactic and semantic information about phrases.