We analyze the amount of information needed to carry out model-based recognition tasks, in the context of a probabilistic data collection model, and independently of the recogniti...
An assumption shared by many theories of discourse is that discourse structure constrains anaphora resolution (cf. [Grosz and Sidner 1986] for definite NPs, [Lascarides and Asher ...
Unification-based theories of grammar allow to integrate different levels of linguistic descriptions in the common framework of typed feature structures. Dependencies among the le...
This paper presents a framework for generating smoothlooking transformations between pairs of surfaces that may differ in topology. The user controls the transformation by specify...
We present an overview of Candide, a system for automatic translation of French text to English text. Candide uses methods of information theory and statistics to develop a probab...
Adam L. Berger, Peter F. Brown, Stephen Della Piet...