Artificial Intelligence
TEAM: an experiment in the design of transportable natural-language interfaces
Artificial Intelligence
Semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambiguity
Semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambiguity
Machine translation using abductive inference
HLT '91 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
Computational Linguistics
The repair of speech act misunderstandings by abductive inference
Computational Linguistics
On linear potential functions for approximating Bayesian computations
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
A Language for Construction of Belief Networks
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Small Is Beautiful - Compact Semantics for Medical Language Processing
AIMDM '99 Proceedings of the Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making
An empirical assessment of semantic interpretation
NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
Incremental dependency parsing
ACL '92 Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An integrated model of semantic and conceptual interpretation from dependency structures
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
A critical evaluation of commensurable abduction models for semantic interpretation
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
Incremental parsing and reason maintenance
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
Representing and integrating linguistic knowledge
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
IJCAI'99 Proceedings of the 16th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Computational Linguistics
Explanation, irrelevance and statistical independence
AAAI'91 Proceedings of the ninth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Estimating probability distributions over hypotheses with variable unification
AAAI'93 Proceedings of the eleventh national conference on Artificial intelligence
Belief updating by enumerating high-probabilityindependence-based assignments
UAI'94 Proceedings of the Tenth international conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
Relevant explanations: allowing disjunctive assignments
UAI'93 Proceedings of the Ninth international conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
Algorithms for irrelevance-based partial MAPs
UAI'91 Proceedings of the Seventh conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Computational Linguistics
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We propose that logic (enhanced to encode probability information) is a good way of characterizing semantic interpretation. In support of this we give a fragment of an axiomatization for word-sense disambiguation, nounphrase (and verb) reference, and case disambiguation. We describe an inference engine (Frail3) which actually takes this axiomatization and uses it to drive the semantic interpretation process. We claim three benefits from this scheme. First, the interface between semantic interpretation and pragmatics has always been problematic, since all of the above tasks in general require pragmatic inference. Now the interface is trival, since both semantic interpretation and pragmatics use the same vocabulary and inference engine. The second benefit, related to the first, is that semantic guidance of syntax is a side effect of the interpretation. The third benefit is the elegance of the semantic interpretation theory. A few simple rules capture a remarkable diversity of semantic phenomena.