Businesses today are requiring higher levels of creativity and innovation in the face of rapid change, fierce competition and increasingly complex markets. Nowhere is the more obv...
To develop a science of small-group interaction in groupware, we need a method for analyzing the structure of computer-mediated discourse. Conversation analysis offers an analysis...
Text summarization with the consideration of coherence can be achieved by using discourse processing with the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). Additional problems on relational a...
A model for reference use in communication is proposed, from a representationist point of view. Both the sender and the receiver of a message handle representations of their commo...
We present a perception system, called Artisan, that semi-automatically builds 3-D models of a robot’s workspace. Range images are acquired with a scanning laser rangefinder an...
Andrew Edie Johnson, Regis Hoffman, Jim Osborn, Ma...