This paper presents Delphi, the natural language component of the BBN Spoken Language System. Delphi is a domainindependent natural language question answering system that is soli...
Madeleine Bates, Robert J. Bobrow, Robert Ingria, ...
A computational model for the acquisition of knowledge from encyclopedic texts is described. The model has been implemented in a program, called SNOWY, that reads unedited texts f...
The AlethGen tool has been used to build a system for automatically generating replies to complaints, for a European mail-order company. In the current version, letters are genera...
The framework we adopted for customizing linguistic knowledge to individual application domains is an integration of symbolic and statistical approaches. In order to acquire domai...
PLANDoc, a system under joint development by Columbia and Bellcore, documents the activity of planning engineers as they study telephone routes. It takes as input a trace of the e...