This paper presents a unified theory of verbal irony tbr developing a computational model of irony. The theory claims that an ironic utterance implicitly communicates the fact tha...
In this paper we sketch a decidable inference-based procedure for lexical disambiguation which operates on semantic representations of discourse and conceptual knowledge, In contr...
In this paper we describe a new approach for learning dialog act processing. In this approach we integrate a symbolic semantic segmentation parse,: with a learning dialog act netw...
In this paper I describe how a significant class of cases that would involve (possibly complex) structural transfer in nmchine translation can be handled avoiding transfer. This i...
Communication among agents collaborating on a task often involves complex utterances about multiple actions. In this paper, we analyze two particular multiaction constructions, ut...