Identifying the regularities underlying speaker decisions to emphasize or de-emphasize an item intonationally has long been the subject of speculation and controversy. This paper ...
: Tasks such as forecasting, diagnosis, and planning frequently require quantitative predictions . Typically, quantitative predictions are obtained by characterizing a system in te...
Temporal projection-predicting future states of a changing world-has been studied mainly as a formal problem. Researchers have been concerned with getting the concepts of causalit...
We describe an approach to training a statistical parser from a bracketed corpus, and demonstrate its use in a software testing application that translates English speci cations i...
This paper provides an account of the representation of defaults in Cyc and their semantics in terms of first order logic with reification. Default reasoning is a complex thing, a...