Computational Linguistics Research at the University of Pennsylvania

This is a brief, informal and, because of Christmas holidays, regrettably partial survey of current research in computational linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Any inaccuracies can be blamed on the departmental egg nog.

[1]  Geoffrey K. Pullum,et al.  Natural languages and context-free languages , 1982 .

[2]  Samuel Jerrold Kaplan,et al.  Cooperative responses from a portable natural language data base query system. , 1979 .

[3]  Barbara J. Grosz,et al.  Focusing and Description in Natural Language Dialogues , 1979 .

[4]  Mordechai Ben-Ari,et al.  The temporal logic of branching time , 1981, POPL '81.

[5]  Eric Mays,et al.  Failures in Natural Language Systems: Applications to Data Base Query Systems , 1980, AAAI.

[6]  Mordechai Ben-Ari,et al.  The Temporal Logic of Branching Time , 1981, POPL.

[7]  Eric Mays,et al.  A Modal Temporal Logic for Reasoning about Change , 1983, ACL.

[8]  Laurence R. Horn,et al.  On the semantic properties of logical operators in english' reproduced by the indiana university lin , 1972 .

[9]  Stanley J. Rosenschein,et al.  Plan Synthesis: A Logical Perspective , 1981, IJCAI.

[10]  Julia Hirschberg,et al.  User Participation in the Reasoning Processes of Expert Systems , 1982, AAAI.

[11]  David Scott Warren,et al.  Formal semantics for time in databases , 1982, TODS.

[12]  Kathleen F. McCoy.  Correcting misconceptions: What to say when the user is mistaken , 1983, CHI '83.

[13]  Bonnie L. Webber,et al.  Varieties of User Misconceptions: Detection and Correction , 1983, IJCAI.

[14]  Aravind K. Joshi.  Factoring Recursion and Dependencies: an Aspect of Tree Adjoining Grammars (Tag) and a Comparison of Some Formal Properties of Tags, GPSGs, Plgs, and LPGS , 1983, ACL.

[15]  Eric Mays,et al.  Monitors as Responses to Questions: Determining Competence , 1982, AAAI.

[16]  Kathleen R. McKeown.  Generating natural language text in response to questions about database structure , 1982 .

[17]  Scott Weinstein,et al.  Providing a Unified Account of Definite Noun Phrases in Discourse , 1983, ACL.

[18]  Gerald Gazdar,et al.  A solution to the projection problem , 1979 .