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Language Understanding

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Major off-line reading (available to me):

• Knowledge Representation And the Semantics of Natural Language

More off-line reading:

• Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind of Brutus, a Storytelling Machine

Projects (random sample for now):

• Overview of the Texai project
  • implements an incremental parser for Fluid Construction Grammar
  • language: Java
• RelEx Semantic Relationship Extractor
  • based on Link Grammar parser
  • language: Java

Places (random sample for now):

• Question Answering at CLEF

Foundations, Grammars and Parsers, Logical Approaches, Logics of Discourse:

• The Semantics and Pragmatics of Natural Language ed. 2007 (ed. 2000) (Alex Lascarides)
• Johan Bos
  • Representation and Inference for Natural Language. A First Course in Computational Semantics
  • Working with Discourse Representation Theory. An Advanced Course in Computational Semantics
• Iddo Lev, Precise Understanding of Language by Computers
• Grammatical Framework (see Semantics and pragmatics of text and dialogue from Natural Language Technology course)
• Barker & Szabolcsi: New directions for proof theory in linguistics
• Exploring Model Building for Natural Language Understanding (Johan Bos)
• The Use of Situation Theory in Context Modeling
• Episodic Logic & EPILOG, Lenhart K. Schubert / Episodic Logic Meets Little Red Riding Hood: A Comprehensive, Natural Representation for Language Understanding
• Labelled Abduction and Relevance Reasoning by Dov Gabbay, Jeremy Pitt, Ruth Kempson
• Natural Language Parsing with Graded Constraints
• Conceptual Representation and Scripting
• Jerry R. Hobbs: Discourse Interpretation, Encoding Commonsense Knowledge, Information Extraction
• Extensible Dependency Grammar: A Modular Grammar Formalism Based On Multigraph Description
• Word Grammar: a declarative, monostrated, network-based, cognitive approach to grammar (Richard Hudson)

User Interfaces (beginning of list), Reasoning Systems and Autonomous Agents (towards end of list):

• Modelling Space and Time in Narratives about Restaurants
• Metafor: Play Programming with English programming in natural language
• The California Restaurant Query Demo Site (didn’t work the last time I checked)
• A Framework for Answering Queries using Multiple Representation and Inference Techniques, N. L. Cassimatis (2003)
• Behavior Development through Task Oriented Discourse by John R. Lee and Andrew B. Williams
• SHRDLU / Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language, Terry Winograd
• Bootstrapping grounded symbols by minimal autonomous robots Vogt, Paul (2000)

Machine Translation:

• Verbmobil overview / Compositional Semantics in Verbmobil using underspecified DRSes
• Grammatical Framework / Slides on multilingual grammar engineering

Knowledge Extraction:

• A Comparison of Parsing Technologies for the Biomedical Domain Claire Grover, Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides
• Lenhart K. Schubert / Can we derive general world knowledge from texts?