We propose a bottom-up variant of Earley deduction. Bottom-up deduction is preferable to top-down deduction because it allows incrementai processing (even for head-driven grammars...
In conversation,a person sometimeshasto refer to anobjectthat is not previously known to the other participant. We present a planbased model of how agents collaborate on reference...
This paper presents the XTAG system, a grammar development tool based on the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism that includes a wide-coverage syntactic grammar for English. Th...
Christine Doran, Dania Egedi, Beth Ann Hockey, Ban...
q'his paper provides an account of the role that the interaction between nominal and temporal reference plays in resolving temporal reference. Exploiting this interaction in ...