We show how an object-oriented system-and in particular the Oberon System-can be used to write software that is extensible by end users even while the software is running. Extensib...
We describe an approach to training a statistical parser from a bracketed corpus, and demonstrate its use in a software testing application that translates English speci cations i...
We have analyzed 607 sentences of spontaneous human-computer speech data containing repairs, drawn from a total corpus of 10,718 sentences. We present here criteria and techniques...
We describe a method and its implementation for self-monitoring during natural language generation. In situations of communication where the generation of ambiguous utterances sho...
We have implemented an incremental lexical acquisition mechanism that learns the meanings of previously unknown words from the context in which they appear, as a part of the proce...