Traditional approaches to the problem of extracting data from texts have emphasized hand-crafted linguisti c knowledge . In contrast, BBN's PLUM system (Probabilistic Language Understanding Model) was developed a s part of a DARPA-funded research effort on integrating probabilistic language models with more traditional linguistic techniques . Our research and development goals are • more rapid ...

The elements of the stock of knowledge shared .by the speaker and the hearer change their salience, in the sense of being immediately accessible in the bearer's memory. The hierarchy of salience is argued to be a basic component of a mechanism serving for the identification of reference. Some of the regularities of this mechanism are discussed, the description of which is a necessary prerequisi...

In this paper, we define event expression over sentences of natural language and semantic relations between events. Based on this definition, we formally consider text understanding process having events as basic unit.

INCORPORATING NON-VERBAL MODALITIES IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING FOR MULTIMODAL CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS

This year, project efforts are focused on reapplying and revising existing evaluation techniques for the purpose of evaluating English and Japanese information extraction systems in the joint ventures and microelectronics domains. This year's effort will culminate in the Fifth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-5) in August, 1993. development in March, 1993, in preparation for the evaluation...

The importance of the labyrinth as a trope in the Western tradition can hardly be overstated. Far from being a metaphor that describes just anything, it is a sign whose meaning appears in specific contexts. This article argues how the labyrinth’s triple function as visual, verbal and spatial sign—as well as its paradoxical function as unicursal and multicursal structure—makes it flexible enough...

We followed an international research network that holds regular meetings in technology-enhanced working environments. The team is geographically distributed and uses a set of technical artefacts to support their collaborative work, including a videoconferencing system and a media space. We have been studying how mutual understanding is created between the team members and the role that visual ...

gadamer considers understanding as an event which is the result of the fusion of horizon of interpreter and horizon of the text. from his point of view, understanding has a fundamental connection with the concept of horizon and in fact horizon is the central point in the process of understanding. horizon for nietzsche is a limiting concept which is not able to be transitive. husserl draws his a...