1 Jomo was an Assistant Secretary General in the United Nations system responsible for economic research during 2005-2015.; Chowdhury (Chief, Multi-Stakeholder Engagement & Outreach, Financing for Development Office, UN-DESA); Sharma (Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Financing for Development Office, UN-DESA); Platz (Economic Affairs Officer, Financing for Development Office, UN-DESA); correspo...

This note is based on discussions with and a vision by several colleagues, notably Prof. Raj Reddy and Prof. V. S. Arunachalam, at Carnegie Mellon, and interactions with numerous other professionals, including those affiliated to the World Bank and the UN ICT Task Force. There are many assumptions made in this note that are not shown, and no claim is made for the optimality or universality of t...

We report an empirical study on interjectory responses, utterances such as hai, ee, and un, corresponding roughly to 'yes' or '11h-huh' in English, with special emphasis on the way they help coordinate, and enhance mutual understanding in, dialogue. A corpus of data has been collected from telephone conversations, as well as from radio and television programs. Our analysis demonstrates that the...

Nous envisageons la r&lisation d'un syst~me de communication Homme-Machine en langues naturelles, qui pourrait 8tre utilis6 par exemple pour l'dtude de la langue elle-mSme ou pour la rdalisation d'un syst~me questions-r~ponses sttr un sujet d~termind (consultation d'tme banque de donn~es et r6ponses approprides). Avant d'en arriver ~t la rdalisation du module s~mantique, il faut se d~finir un m...