Conversational Interaction and Spoken Dialogue Research Group

Publications

2014

• Perera, I., Allen, J. (2014), What is the Ground? Continuous Maps for Symbol Grounding. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014), P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, and B. Scassellati (Eds.) Quebec City, Canada, July 2014. Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

2013

• Allen, J., Orfan, J., de Beaumont, W., Teng, C. M., Galescu, L., Swift, M. (2013). Automatically deriving event ontologies for a commonsense knowledge base. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2013), Potsdam, Germany, March 19-22, 2013.
• Manshadi, M., Gildea, D., and Allen J. (2013), Plurality, negation, and quantification: Towards comprehensive quantifier scope disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-13), Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9.
• Manshadi, M., Gildea, D., and Allen J. (2013), Integrating Programming by Example and Natural Language Programming. In Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13), Bellevue, WA, July 14-18.
• Perera, I., Allen J. (2013), SALL-E: A Situated Agent for Language Learning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference (AAAI-2013). [PDF]

2012

• Aist, G., Campana, E., Allen, J., Swift, M., Tanenhaus, M. (2012). Squib: Fruit Carts: A Domain and Corpus for Research in Dialogue Systems and Psycholinguistics. Computational Linguistics 38(3):469-478.
• Manshadi, M., Allen, J., and Swift, M. (2012). An annotation scheme for quantifier scope disambiguation. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), pp. 1546-1553, Istanbul.
• Manshadi, M. and Allen J. (2012), Expanding the Range of Tractable Scope-Underspecified Semantic Representations. The 1st Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2012), Montreal, Canada, June 7-8.
• Manshadi, M. and Allen J. (2012), A Universal Representation for Shallow and Deep Semantics. The 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-7), Istanbul, Turkey, May 26.
• Manshadi, M., Carolyn K., and Allen J. (2012), Using the Crowd to Do Natural Language Programming. The Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference, Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP 12), Toronto, Canada, July 22-23.
• Swift, M., Ferguson, G., Galescu, L., Chu, Y., Harman, C., Jung, H., Perera, I., Song, Y. C., Allen, J., and Kautz, H. (2012). A multimodal corpus for integrated language and action. Proceedings of the International Workshop on MultiModal Corpora for Machine Learning, pp. 14-17, Istanbul, Turkey. [PDF]
• Blaylock, N., de Beaumont, W., Galescu, L., Jung, H., Allen, J., Ferguson, G., and Swift, M. (2012). Play-by-play learning for textual user interfaces. In Applied Natural Language Processing: Identification, Investigation, Resolution, McCarthy, P. M., and Boonthum-Denecke, C. (eds.), pp. 351-364. IGI Global. [doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-741-8]

2011

• Ferguson, G., and Allen, J. (2011). A Cognitive Model for Collaborative Agents. Proceedings of the AAAI 2011 Fall Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Systems. Washington, DC. [PDF]
• Allen, J., de Beaumont, W., Blaylock, N., Ferguson, G., Orfan, J., Swift, M. (2011). Acquiring Commonsense Knowledge for a Cognitive Agent. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS 2011), Washington, DC. [PDF]
• Jung, H., Allen, J., Blaylock, N., de Beaumont, W., Galescu, L., and Swift, M. (2011). Building Timelines from narrative clinical records: Initial results based on deep natural language understanding. Proceedings of Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP 2011). Portland, Oregon.
• Manshadi, M., Allen, J., and Swift, M. (2011). Building a Corpus of Scope-Disambiguated English Text. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011), short paper. Portland, June 19-24, 2011.
• Manshadi, M. and Allen, J., (2011). Unrestricted Quantifier Scope Disambiguation. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing (TextGraph-6). Portland, OR, June 23.

2010

• Jung, H., Allen, J., de Beaumont, W., Blaylock, N., Ferguson, G., Galescu, L., Swift, M. (2010). Going Beyond PBD: A Play-by-Play and Mixed-initiative Approach. No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web, edited by Cypher, A., Dontcheva, M., Lau, T., and Nichols, J. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

• Mary Swift, Nate Blaylock, James Allen, Will de Beaumont, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung. Augmenting a Deep Natural Language Processing System with UMLS. Poster abstract in Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM), October 25-26, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK.

• Nate Blaylock, James Allen, William de Beaumont, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, Mary Swift. Learning Collaborative Tasks on Textual User Interfaces. The 23rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-23), May 19-21, 2010, Daytona Beach, Florida. [pdf]

• Ferguson, G., Quinn, J., Horwitz, C., Swift, M., Allen, J., and Galescu, L. (2010). Towards A Personal Health Management Assistant. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 43(5): S13-S16. [doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2010.05.014]

2009

• George Ferguson, James Allen, Lucian Galescu, Jill Quinn and Mary Swift. CARDIAC: An Intelligent Conversational Assistant for Chronic Heart Failure Patient Health Monitoring. AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Virtual Health Care Interaction (VHI 09), Arlington, VA, November 5-7, 2009.

• Lucian Galescu, James Allen, George Ferguson, Jill Quinn and Mary Swift. Speech Recognition in a Dialog System for Patient Health Monitoring. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM09) Workshop on NLP Approaches for Unmet Information Needs in Health Care, Washington DC, November 1-4, 2009. [pdf]

• Nate Blaylock, Bradley Swain, and James Allen. Mining Geospatial Path Data from Natural Language Descriptions. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS International Workshop on Querying and Mining Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data, Seattle, Washington. November 3, 2009. [pdf]

• James F. Allen. Word Senses, Semantic Roles and Entailment. In 5th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, Pisa, Italy. September 17-19 2009. [pdf]

• Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen and Mary Swift. (2009) An Efficient Algorithm for Canonical Form Underspecifed Semantic Representations. 14th Conference on Formal Grammar (FG 2009), Bordeaux, France July 25-26. [pdf]

• Nate Blaylock, Bradley Swain, and James Allen. TESLA: A Tool for Annotating Geospatial Language Corpora. In Proceedings North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) 2009 Conference, Boulder, Colorado. May 31-June 5 2009. [pdf]

2008

• James Allen, Mary Swift and William deBeaumont. (2008). Deep Semantic Analysis of Text. Symposium on Semantics in Systems for Text Processing (STEP 2008) Shared Task: Comparing Semantic Representations. Venice, Italy, September 22-24. [pdf]

• Manshadi, M, Allen,J., and Swift,M. (2008) Toward a Universal Underspecifed Semantic Representation. 13th Conference on Formal Grammar (FG 2008), Hamburg Germany, August 9-10. [pdf]

• Gomez Gallo, C., Jaeger, T. F., Allen, J. and Swift, M. (2008) Production In A Multimodal Corpus: How Speakers Communicate Complex Actions. 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 28-30. [pdf]

• Nate Blaylock and James Allen. Real-time Path Descriptions Grounded with GPS Tracks: a preliminary report. In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Methodologies and Resources for Processing Spatial Language, Marrakech, Morocco. May 31 2008. [pdf]

• Dzikovska, M., Allen, J. and Swift, M. (2008). Linking Semantic and Knowledge Representations in a Multi-domain Dialogue System. Journal of Logic and Computation 18/3:405-430, Oxford University Press.

• Jung, H., Allen, J., Galescu, L., Chambers, N., Swift, M. and Taysom, W. (2008). Utilizing Natural Language for One-Shot Task Learning. Journal of Logic and Computation 18/3:475-493, Oxford University Press.

2007

• Allen, J., Chambers, N., Ferguson, G., Galescu, L., Jung, H., Swift, M., and Taysom, W. (2007). PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07). Vancouver, Canada, Jul 22-26. Outstanding paper award winner. [pdf]

• Ferguson, G., and J. Allen (2007). Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Systems for Collaborative Problem-Solving. AI Magazine 28(2):23-32. Special Issue on Mixed-Initiative Assistants. AAAI Press. [pdf]

• Gregory Aist, James Allen, Ellen Campana, Carlos Gómez Gallo, Scott Stoness, Mary Swift and Michael Tanenhaus. Incremental dialogue system faster than and preferred to its nonincremental counterpart. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-07), Nashville Tennessee, August 2007. [pdf]

• Carlos Gómez Gallo. Handling Non-Sentential Utterances in a Continuous Understanding Framework. Doctoral Consortium in AAAI 2007, pages 1929-1930. Vancouver, Canada. July 2007. [pdf]

• James Allen, Myroslava Dzikovska, Mehdi Manshadi, Mary Swift. Deep linguistic processing for spoken dialogue systems. Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing, Prague, June 2007. [pdf]

• Gregory Aist, James Allen, Ellen Campana, Carlos Gómez Gallo, Scott Stoness, Mary Swift and Michael Tanenhaus. Incremental understanding in human-computer dialogue and experimental evidence for advantages over nonincremental methods. In Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DECALOG), pages 149-154. Rovereto, Italy, May 30-1 June, 2007. [pdf]

• Carlos Gómez Gallo, Gregory Aist, James Allen, William de Beaumont, Sergio Coria, Whitney Gegg-Harrison, Joana Paulo Pardal and Mary Swift . Annotating Continuous Understanding in a Multimodal Dialogue Corpus. In Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DECALOG), pages 75-82. Rovereto, Italy, May 30-1 June, 2007. [pdf]

• James Allen, Nathanael Chambers, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, Mary Swift and William Taysom. Demonstration of PLOW: A Dialogue System for One-Shot Task Learning. In Proceedings of the NAACL Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT-2007), Rochester, NY, April 2007.

2006

• Allen, J., Ferguson, G., Blaylock N., Byron, D., Chambers, N., Dzikovska, M., Galescu, L., and Swift, M. (2006). Chester: Towards a Personal Medication Advisor. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 39(5):500-513. Elsevier. [pdf]

• Chambers, N., Allen, J., Galescu, L., Jung, H., Taysom, W. (2006). Using Semantics to Identify Web Objects. Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, MA. AAAI Press. [pdf]

• Nate Blaylock and James Allen. Fast hierarchical goal schema recognition. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, MA, July 2006. [pdf]

• Nate Blaylock and James Allen. Hierarchical instantiated goal recognition. In AAAI Workshop on Modeling Others from Observations (MOO-2006), Boston, July 2006. [pdf]

• Gregory Aist, James Allen, Ellen Campana, Lucian Galescu, Carlos Gómez Gallo, Scott Stoness, Mary Swift and Michael Tanenhaus. Software architectures for incremental understanding of human speech. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP), Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006. [pdf]

• Huayan Zhong, Amanda Stent and Mary Swift. Modeling dative alternation with automatically extracted features. In Proceedings of Workshop on Empirical and Statistical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems at the Twenty-first National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI06), Boston, MA, July 2006.

• Benoit Crabbe, Myroslava Dzikovska, William de Beaumont and Mary Swift. Extending the coverage of a domain independent dialog lexicon with VerbNet. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (ScaNLU06) at HLT-NAACL 2006, New York, New York, June 2006. [pdf]

• Jung, H., Allen, J., Chambers, N., Galescu, L., Swift, M., Taysom, W. (2006). One-Shot Procedure Learning from Instruction and Observation. Proceedings of the International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2006): Special Track on Natural Language and Knowledge Representation, Melbourne, FL. AAAI Press. [pdf]

2005

• Nate Blaylock and James Allen. A collaborative problem-solving model of dialogue. In Laila Dybkjær and Wolfgang Minker, editors, Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 200-211, Lisbon, September 2-3 2005. [pdf]

• Nathan J. Blaylock. Towards Tractable Agent-based Dialogue. PhD thesis, University of Rochester, Dept. of Computer Science, August 2005. [pdf]

• Nate Blaylock and James Allen. Recognizing instantiated goals using statistical methods. In Gal Kaminka, editor, Workshop on Modeling Others from Observations (MOO-2005), pages 79-86, Edinburgh, July 30 2005. [pdf]

• Nate Blaylock and James Allen. Generating artificial corpora for plan recognition. In Liliana Ardissono, Paul Brna, and Antonija Mitrovic, editors, User Modeling 2005, number 3538 in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 179-188. Springer, Edinburgh, July 24-29 2005. [pdf]

• Micha Elsner, Mary Swift, James Allen, Daniel Gildea. Online statistics for a unification-based dialogue parser. In Proceedings of The 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT05) , Vancouver BC, October 2005.[pdf]

• Myroslava Dzikovska, Mary Swift, James Allen, William de Beaumont. Generic parsing for multi-domain semantic interpretation. In Proceedings of The 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT05)), Vancouver BC, October 2005.[pdf]

• James Allen, George Ferguson, Mary Swift, Amanda Stent, Scott Stoness, Lucian Galescu, Nathanael Chambers, Ellen Campana and Gregory Aist. Two diverse systems built using generic components for spoken dialogue (Recent progress on TRIPS). In Proceedings of the Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, pages 85-88, at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005)), Ann Arbor Michigan, June 2005.[pdf]

• Scott C. Stoness, James Allen, Greg Aist and Mary Swift. Using real-world reference to improve spoken language understanding. In Proceedings of Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding, AAAI05, Pittsburg, PA, July 2005.[pdf]

• Mary Swift. Towards automatic verb acquisition from VerbNet for spoken dialog processing. In Proceedings of Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes, edited by Katrin Erk, Alissa Melinger & Sabine Schulte im Walde, pp. 115-120. Saarbruecken, Germany, February 2005.[pdf]

2004

• Mary Swift, James Allen and Dan Gildea. Skeletons in the parser: Using a shallow parser to improve deep parsing. In Proceedings of The 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'04),Vol. 1 pp. 383-389. Geneva, August 2004. [pdf]

• Nate Blaylock and James Allen. Statistical goal parameter recognition. In 14th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'04), Whistler, British Columbia, June 3-7 2004. [PDF]

• Mary Swift, Myroslava Dzikovska, Joel Tetreault, and James Allen. Semi-automatic syntactic and semantic corpus annotation with a deep parser. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04), Vol. IV, pp. 1463-1466. Lisbon, May 2004.[pdf]

• Myroslava Dzikovska, Mary Swift, and James Allen. Building a computational lexicon and ontology with FrameNet. In Proceedings of Workshop on Building Lexical Resources with Semantically Annotated Corpora at The 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04), pp. 53-60, Lisbon, May 2004. [PDF]

• Joel Tetreault, Mary Swift, Preethum Prithviraj, Myroslava Dzikovska, and James Allen. Discourse annotation in the Monroe Corpus. In Workshop on Discourse Annotation, at The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'04), pp. 103-109. Barcelona, July 2004. [pdf]

2003

• Nate Blaylock and James Allen. Corpus-based, statistical goal recognition. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2003), pages 1303-1308, Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15 2003. The published version contained errors in the reported results. This is the corrected version. [PDF]

• Myroslava O. Dzikovska, James F. Allen, Mary D. Swift. Integrating linguistic and domain knowledge for spoken dialogue systems in multiple domains. In Proceedings of Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems at The Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2003) , Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003. [PDF]

• Nate Blaylock, James Allen, and George Ferguson. Managing communicative intentions with collaborative problem solving. In Jan van Kuppevelt and Ronnie W. Smith, editors, Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue, volume 22 of Kluwer Series on Text, Speech and Language Technology, pages 63-84. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2003. [PDF]

• Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Mary D. Swift, and James F. Allen. Constructing custom semantic representations from a generic lexicon. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Semantics, pp. 92-105. Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 15-17, 2003. [PDF]

2002

• Nate Blaylock, John Dowding, and James Allen. A dialogue model for interaction with planners, schedulers and executives. In Proceedings of the 3rd International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, Houston, Texas, October 27-29, 2002. [PDF]

• James Allen and George Ferguson. Human-Machine Collaborative Planning. In Proceedings of the Third International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, Houston, TX, October 27-29, 2002. [PDF]

• Lucian Galescu and James Allen. Name Pronunciation with a Joint N-Gram Model for Bi-directional Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2002), Denver, Colorado, September 16-20, 2002. [NA]

• James Allen, Nate Blaylock, and George Ferguson. A problem-solving model for collaborative agents. In First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, Italy, July 15-19 2002. [PS]

• Nate Blaylock, James Allen, and George Ferguson. Synchronization in an asynchronous agent-based architecture for dialogue systems. In Proceedings of the 3rd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialog, Philadelphia, July 2002. [PDF]

• Lucian Galescu. Sub-lexical language models for unlimited vocabulary speech recognition. Technical Report of IEICE, 102(108), SP2002-30, May 2002, pp. 37-42. Invited paper at the Symposium on Robust Spoken Language Processing Systems, organized by the Speech Committee of IEICE and the ASJ (ATR, Kyoto, Japan, May 30-31, 2002). [NA]

• Myroslava Dzikovska, James F. Allen, and Mary D. Swift. Finding the balance between generic and domain-specific knowledge: a parser customization strategy. In Proceedings of Workshop on Customizing Knowledge for NLP applications at the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'02), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, May 28, 2002. [PDF]

• George Ferguson, James F. Allen, Nate J. Blaylock, Donna K. Byron, Nate W. Chambers, Myrsolava O. Dzikovska, Lucian Galescu, Xipeng Shen, Robert S. Swier, and Mary D. Swift. The Medication Advisor Project: Preliminary Report, Technical Report 776, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, May 2002. [PDF]

• Nate Blaylock. Managing communicative intentions in dialogue using a collaborative problem-solving model. Technical Report 774, University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science, April 2002. [PDF]

2001

• James Allen, Donna Byron, Myroslava Dzikovska, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, and Amanda Stent, "Towards conversational human-computer interaction," AI Magazine, 22(4), Winter 2001, pp. 27-37. [PDF]

• Nate Blaylock. Retroactive recognition of interleaved plans for natural language dialogue. Technical Report 761, University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science, December 2001. [PDF]

• Lucian Galescu and James Allen. Bi-directional Conversion Between Graphemes and Phonemes Using a Joint N-gram Model. In Proceedings of the 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Atholl Palace Hotel, Perthshire, Scotland, August 29th - September 1st, 2001. [PDF]

• James Allen, George Ferguson, and Amanda Stent, "An architecture for more realistic conversational systems," in Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces 2001 (IUI-01), Santa Fe, NM, January 14-17, 2001. [PDF]

2000

• James Allen, Donna Byron, Myroslava Dzikovska, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, and Amanda Stent, "An architecture for a generic dialogue shell," Journal of Natural Language Engineering, special issue on Best Practices in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Engineering, 6(3), December 2000, pp. 1-16. [PDF]

• Lenhart Schubert, "The situations we talk about", in J. Minker, ed., Logic-Based Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer, Dortrecht, December 2000, pp. 407-439. [Postscript]

• Amanda Stent and James Allen, Annotating Argumentation Acts in Spoken Dialog, Technical Report 740 and Technical Note 00-1, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, November 2000. [Postscript]

• Lucian Galescu and James Allen. Hierarchical statistical language models: experiments on in-domain adaptation. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), Beijing, China, October 16-20, 2000. [PDF]

• Lucian Galescu and James Allen. Evaluating hierarchical hybrid language models. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), Beijing, China, October 16-20, 2000. [PDF]

• Myroslava Dzikovska, A Practical Semantic Type Representation for Natural Language Understanding, Technical Report 733, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, August 2000. [Postscript]

• Aaron Kaplan, A Computational Model of Belief, PhD Thesis, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, 2000. [PDF]

• Amon Seagull, Well-Foundedness and Reliability in Statistical Natural Language Parsing, PhD Thesis and Technical Report 736, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, August 2000. [Postscript]

• James Allen, George Ferguson, Bradford W. Miller, Eric K. Ringger, and Teresa Sikorski Zollo, "Dialogue systems: From theory to practice in TRAINS-96," in Robert Dale, Hermann Moisl, and Harold Somers, eds., Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Marcel Dekker, New York, July 2000, pp. 347-376.

• Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, "Discovering state constraints in DISCOPLAN: Some new results," in Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), July 30-August 3, 2000, Austin, TX. [Postscript]

• Lenhart Schubert and Chung Hee Hwang, "Episodic Logic meets Little Red Riding Hood: A comprehensive, natural representation for language understanding," in L. Iwanska and S.C. Shapiro, eds., Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation: Language for Knowledge and Knowledge for Language, MIT/AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, July 2000, pp. 111-174. [Postscript]

• Myroslava Dzikovska and Donna Byron, "When is a union really an intersection? Problems resolving reference to locations in a dialogue system," in Proceedings of the GOTALOG'2000, Gothenburg, June 2000. [PDF]

• Aaron Kaplan and Lenhart Schubert, "A computational model of belief", Artificial Intelligence, 120, June 2000, pp. 119-160. [PDF]

• Aaron Kaplan, "Reason maintenance in a hybrid reasoning system," Journal of Language and Computation, 1(2), 2000, pp. 247-259. Preliminary version presented at the Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics, Amsterdam, August 1999.

• Amanda Stent, "Rhetorical structure in dialog," in Proceedings of the 2nd International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'2000), June 2000. [PDF]

• Mark Burstein, George Ferguson, and James Allen, Integrating Agent-Based Mixed-Initiative Control with an Existing Multi-Agent Planning System, Technical Report 729, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, May 2000. [Postscript]

• Amon Seagull, A Compaction of WordNet Senses for Evaluation of Word Sense Disambiguators, Technical Report 726, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, April 2000. [Postscript]

• Amanda Stent, The Monroe Corpus, Technical Report 728 and Technical Note 99-2, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 2000. [PDF]

1999

• Mark Core, Dialog Parsing: From Speech Repairs to Speech Acts, Technical Report 721 and Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, December 1999. [Postscript]

• Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, "A model of speech repairs and other disruptions," in AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication in Collaborative Systems, Cape Cod, MA, November 1999. [Postscript]

• Teresa Zollo, "A study of human repair initiation strategies in the presence of speech recognition errors," in Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication in Collaborative Systems, November 1999. [Postscript]

• Peter Heeman and James Allen, "Speech repairs, intonational phrases and discourse markers: modeling speakers' utterances in spoken dialog," Computational Linguistics, 25(4), 1999. [PDF]

• Donna Byron, "Improving Discourse Management in TRIPS-98," in Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech-99), Budapest, Hungary, September 1999. [PDF]

• Lucian Galescu and Eric Ringger, "Augmenting Words with Linguistic Information for N-Gram Language Models," in Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EuroSpeech '99), Budapest, Hungary, September 1999. [PDF]

• Amanda Stent, "Content planning and generation in continuous-speech spoken dialog systems," in Proceedings of the KI'99 workshop ``May I Speak Freely?'', September 1999. [PDF]

• Aaron Kaplan, "Reason maintenance in a hybrid reasoning system", in C. Monz and M. de Rijke, eds., ICoS-1: Inference in Computational Semantics, Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, Amsterdam, August 15, 1999, pp. 83--94.

• Donna Byron and Joel Tetreault, "A Flexible Architecture for Reference Resolution," in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-99), 1999. [PDF]

• Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, "Speech Repairs: A Parsing Perspective," in Proceedings of the ICPhS Satellite Meeting on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Berkeley, CA, July 1999. [PDF]

• Donna Byron, Resolving Pronominal Reference to Abstract Entities, Technical Report 714 and Thesis Proposal, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, June 1999. [Postscript]

• Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, "A Syntactic Framework for Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions," in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-99), College Park, MD, June 1999. [Postscript]

• Amon Seagull and Lenhart Schubert, "Guiding a Well-Founded Parser with Corpus Statistics," in Proceedings of the 1999 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, June 1999. [Postscript]

• Teresa Zollo and Mark Core, "Automatically Extracting Grounding Tags from BF Tags," in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Workshop on Standards and Tools for Discourse Tagging, June 1999. [Postscript]

• Aaron Kaplan and Lenhart Schubert, "Simulative inference in a computational model of belief," in Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens, eds., Computing Meaning, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series, Kluwer, January 1999, pp. 185-202. Preliminary version presented at the International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 1997.

• Lenhart Schubert, "Dynamic skolemization," in Harry Bunt and Reinard Muskens, eds., Computing Meaning, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series, Kluwer, Dortrecht, January 1999, pp. 219-253. [Postscript]

1998

• Aaron Kaplan, "Simulative inference about nonmonotonic reasoners", in Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference, 1998, pp. 71-81. [PDF]

• Amanda Stent, Aspects of Natural Language Generation, Technical Report 701, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, November 1998. [Postscript]

• Amon Seagull and Lenhart Schubert, Smarter Corpus-Based Syntactic Disambiguation, Technical Report 693, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, November 1998. [Postscript]

• Donna Byron and Amanda Stent, A Preliminary Model of Centering in Dialog, Technical Report 687, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1998. [Postscript]

• George Ferguson and James Allen, "TRIPS: An Intelligent Integrated Problem-Solving Assistant," in Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), Madison, WI, 26-30 July 1998, pp. 567-573. [PDF]

• Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, "Inferring state constraints for domain-independent planning," in Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), Madison, WI, 26-30 July 1998. [Postscript]

• Neal Lesh, Nathaniel Martin, and James Allen, "Improving Big Plans," in Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), Madison, WI, 26-30 July 1998. [PDF]

• Donna Byron and Amanda Stent, "A Preliminary Model of Centering in Dialog," in Proceedings of ACL 1998 student session, June 1998. [PDF]

• Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, "Implementing Parser Metarules that Handle Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions," in Proceedings of the 11th International FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium) Conference, Sanibel Island, FL., May 1998. [Postscript]

• Lucian Galescu, Eric Ringger, and James Allen, "Rapid Language Model Development for New Task Domains," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Granada, Spain. May 1998. [PDF]

• Mark Core, "Analyzing and Predicting Patterns of DAMSL Utterance Tags," in Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, Stanford, CA, March 1998. [Postscript]

• Peter Heeman, Donna Byron, and James Allen, "Identifying Discourse Markers in Spoken Dialogue," in Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, Stanford, CA, March 1998. [PDF]

• Donna Byron and Peter Heeman, Discourse Marker Use in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialog, Technical Report 664, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 1998. [Postscript]

• Teresa Sikorski, "Improving Dialogue Annotation Reliability," in Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, March 1998. [Postscript]

1997

• James F. Allen and George Ferguson, ``Actions and Events in Interval Temporal Logic,'' in Oliveiro Stock (ed.), Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, pp. 205--245.

• Choh Man Teng, "Sequential thresholds: Context sensitive default extensions", in Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1997.

• Choh Man Teng, "Many default logics", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1997.

• David Traum and Peter Heeman. "Utterance Units in Spoken Dialogue," in Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, E. Maier, M. Mast, and S. LuperFoy, editors. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. 1997. [PDF]

• Peter Heeman, Speech Repairs, Intonational Boundaries and Discourse Markers: Modeling Speakers' Utterances in Spoken Dialog, Technical Report 673 and Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, December 1997. [Postscript]

• Mark G. Core and James F. Allen ``Coding Dialogs with the DAMSL Annotation Scheme,'' in Working Notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, Boston, MA, November 1997. [Postscript] [Addendum]

• Teresa Sikorski and James Allen, ``A Scheme for Annotating Problem Solving Actions in Dialogue,'' in Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, Boston, MA, November 1997. [Postscript]

• Aaron Kaplan and Lenhart Schubert, Simulative Inference in a Computational Model of Belief, Technical Report 636, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, October 1997. [Postscript]

• Donna K. Byron and Peter A. Heeman. ``Discourse Marker Use in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialog,'' in Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial European Conference on Speech Communication Technology (Eurospeech '97), Rhodes, Greece, September 1997. [PDF]

• Peter A. Heeman and James F. Allen. "Incorporating POS Tagging into Language Modeling," in Proceedings of the 5th Eurospean Conference On Speech Communication and Technology, Rhodes, Greece, September 1997. [PDF]

• Peter A. Heeman and James F. Allen. "Intonational Boundaries, Speech Repairs, and Discourse Markers: Modeling Spoken Dialog," in Proceedings of the 35nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-97), Madrid, July 1997. [Postscript]

• Eric K. Ringger and James F. Allen. ``Robust Error Correction of Continuous Speech Recognition,'' in Proceedings of the ESCA-NATO Workshop on Robust Speech Recognition for Unknown Communication Channels, Pont-a-Mousson, France, April 1997. [PDF]

• Mark G. Core and Lenhart K. Schubert, ``Handling Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions Through Parser Metarules,'' in Working Notes AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Models for Mixed-Initiative Interaction, Stanford, CA, March 1997. Available as AAAI TR SS-97-04. [Postscript]

• Amanda J. Stent and James F. Allen, TRAINS-96 System Evaluation, TRAINS Technical Note 97-1, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 1997. [Postscript]

• Aaron Kaplan and Lenhart Schubert, "Simulative inference in a computational model of belief", in H. Bunt, L. Kievit, R. Muskens, and M. Verlinden, eds., IWCS II: Second International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, January 1997, pp. 107--121.

• Marc Light and Lenhart Schubert, "Knowledge representation for lexical semantics: Is standard first-order logic enough?", in H. Bunth, L. Keivit, R. Muskens and M. Verlinden, eds., IWCS II: Second International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, January 1997.

1996

• Choh Man Teng, "Possible world partition sequences: A unifying framework for uncertain reasoning," in Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1996, pp. 517-524.

• Choh Man Teng, "Combining default logic and autoepistemic logic," in Proceedings of the Workshop on Reasoning with Incomplete and Changing Information, Fourth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1996.

• Bradford Miller, The Lymphocyte Pattern Matching Engine, TRAINS Technical Note 96-6, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, December 1996. [Postscript]

• David Traum, Lenhart K. Schubert, Massimo Poesio, Nat Martin, Marc Light, Chung Hee Hwang, Peter Heeman, George Ferguson, and James F. Allen, ``Knowledge representation in the TRAINS-93 conversation system,'' Intl. Journal of Expert Systems, 9(1), Special Issue on Knowledge Representation and Inference for Natural Language Processing, 1996, pp. 173--223.

• Lenhart Schubert, "Framing the donkey: Towards a unification of semantic representations with knowledge representations," in Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Knowledge Representation Systems Based on Natural Language, Cambridge, MA, November 1996.

• George M. Ferguson, James F. Allen, Brad W. Miller and Eric K. Ringger, The Design and Implementation of the TRAINS-96 System: A Prototype Mixed-Initiative Planning Assistant, TRAINS Technical Note 96-5, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, October 1996. [Postscript]

• Peter Heeman, Kyung-ho Lokem-Kim, and James F. Allen. "Combining the Detection and Correction of Speech Repairs," in Proceedings of the Internatial Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-96), Philadephia, October 1996. Also appears in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue (ISSD-96), Philidephia, October 1996. [PDF]

• Eric K. Ringger and James F. Allen. "A Fertility Channel Model for Post-Correction of Continuous Speech Recognition,'' in Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP'96), Philadelphia, PA, October 1996. [PDF]

• Choh Man Teng, Default Logic and Autoepistemic Logic: Fixed Points and Common Semantic Framework, Technical Report 620, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, October 1996. [Postscript]

• David Traum and Peter Heeman. "Utterance Units and Grounding in Spoken Dialogue," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-96), Philadephia, PA, October 1996. [PDF]

• Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, "Accelerating partial-order planners: Some techniques for effective search control and pruning," Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 5, September 1996, pp. 95-137.

• Teresa Sikorski and James Allen, ``A Task-Based Evaluation of the TRAINS-95 Dialogue System,'' in Proceedings of the ECAI Workshop on Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, August 1996. [Postscript]

• David Traum and Peter Heeman. "Utterance Units in Spoken Dialogue," ECAI Workshop on Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, Budapest, August 1996. [PDF]

• David Traum, Lenhart Schubert, Massimo Poesio, Nathaniel Martin, Marc Light, Chung Hee Hwang, Peter Heeman, George Ferguson, and James Allen, Knowledge Representation in the TRAINS-93 Conversation System, TRAINS Technical Note 96-4 and Technical Report 633, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, August 1996. [Postscript]

• Teresa Sikorski and James Allen, TRAINS-95 System Evaluation, TRAINS Technical Note 96-3, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, July, 1996. [Postscript]

• James F. Allen, Bradford W. Miller, Eric K. Ringger, and Teresa Sikorski, "Robust Understanding in a Dialogue System,'' in Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'96), Santa Cruz, CA, June 1996. pp. 62-70. [PDF]

• Mark G. Core, ``Using Parsed Corpora for Structural Disambiguation in the TRAINS Domain,'' Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-96), June 1996.

• Marc Light, Morphological Cues for Lexical Semantics, Technical Report 624 and Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, June 1996. [Postscript]

• Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, "Computing parameter domains as an aid to planning," in B. Drabble, ed., Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-96), Edinburgh, The AAAI Press, May 1996, pp. 94-101.

• Eric K. Ringger and James F. Allen. "Error Correction via a Post-Processor for Continuous Speech Recognition,'' Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'96), Atlanta, GA, May 1996. [Postscript]

• George Ferguson, James Allen, and Brad Miller, "TRAINS-95: Towards a Mixed-Initiative Planning Assistant," in Proceedings of the Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-96), Edinburgh, Scotland, 29-31 May 1996, pp. 70-77. [PDF]

• James F. Allen, George Ferguson, and Lenhart K. Schubert, ``Planning in Complex Worlds via Mixed-Initiative Interaction,'' Advanced Planning Technology: Technological Achievements of the ARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative, AAAI Press, 1996, pp. 53--60.

• Mark G. Core and Lenhart K. Schubert, Dialog Parsing in the TRAINS System, Technical Report 612 and TRAINS Technical Note 96-2, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 1996. [Postscript]

• Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, Computing Parameter Domains as an Aid to Planning, TR609, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, March 1996. [Postscript]

• Mark G. Core and Lenhart K. Schubert, Using Parsed Corpora for Structural Disambiguation in the TRAINS Domain, Technical Report 608, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, February 1996. [Postscript]

• Lenhart Schubert and Alfonso Gerevini, Accelerating Partial Order Planners by Improving Plan and Goal Choices, TR607, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, January 1996. [Postscript]

1995

• Peter Heeman and Kyung-ho Lokem-Kim, Using structural information to detect speech repairs, TR IEICE SP95-91, December 1995. [Postscript]

• Lenhart Schubert and Alfonso Gerevini, "Accelerating partial order planners by improving plan and goal choices," in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Tools with AI (ICTAI-95), Herndon, VA, November 1995, pp. 442-450.

• James F. Allen, George Ferguson, Brad Miller, and Eric Ringger, "TRAINS as an Embodied Natural Language Dialog System," in Embodied Language and Action: Papers from the 1995 Fall Symposium, AAAI Technical Report FS-95-05.

• James Allen, The TRAINS-95 Parsing System: A User's Manual, Trains Technical Note 95-1, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1995. [Postscript]

• Nathaniel Martin and Gregory Mitchell, TRAINS World Simulator: User's Manual, TRAINS Technical Note 95-2, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1995. [Postscript]

• Eric Ringger, A Robust Loose Coupling for Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding, Technical Report 592 and Thesis Proposal, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1995. [Postscript]

• Eric Ringger, A Robust Loose Coupling for Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding, Technical Report 592, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1995. [Postscript]

• Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, "Efficient algorithms for qualitative reasoning about time," Artificial Intelligence 74(2), pp. 207-248, 1995.

• Peter Heeman and Graeme Hirst. "Collaborating on Referring Expressions," Compuational Linguistics, 21(3), 1995. Also published as Technical Report 435, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, Revised April 1995. [Postscript]

• Peter A. Heeman and James Allen, The Trains 93 Dialogues, Trains Technical Note 94-2, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 1995. [Postscript]

• Peter A. Heeman and James Allen, Dialogue Transcription Tools, TRAINS Technical Note 94-1, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester. Revised March 1995. [Postscript]

• George Ferguson, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Mixed-Initiative Planning, Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, February, 1995. Available as URCS TR 562, January, 1995. [ Postscript]

• James F. Allen, George Ferguson, Bradford W. Miller, and Eric K. Ringger, "Spoken Dialogue and Interactive Planning," in Proceedings of the 1995 ARPA Spoken Language Systems Technology (SLST) Workshop, Austin, Texas, January 1995.

• Henry Kyburg Jr., Combinatorial Semantics, Technical Report 563, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, January 1995. [Postscript]

• Lenhart Schubert and Alfonso Gerevini, Accelerating Partial Order Planners by Improving Plan and Goal Choices, Technical Report 570, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, January 1995; revised April 1995. [Postscript]

• James F. Allen, Lenhart K. Schubert, George Ferguson, Peter Heeman, Chung Hee Hwang, Tsuneaki Kato, Marc Light, Nathaniel G. Martin, Bradford W. Miller, Massimo Poesio, and David R. Traum, "The TRAINS Project: A case study in building a conversational planning agent," Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI, 7(1995), 7-48. Also available as TRAINS Technical Note 94-3 and Technical Report 532, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1994. [Postscript]

1994

• Lenhart Schubert, "Explanation closure, action closure, and the Sandewall test suite for reasoning about change," Journal of Logic and Computation, 4(5), Special Issue on Actions and Processes, 1994, pp. 679-799.

• Hannah Blau and Henry Kyburg Jr., Ploxoma: Testbed for Uncertain Inference, Technical Report 537, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, December 1994. [Postscript]

• David R. Traum, A Computational Theory of Grounding in Natural Language Conversation, Ph.D. Thesis and Technical Report 545, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, December 1994. [Postscript]

• Alfonso Gerevini, Lenhart Schubert, and S. Schaeffer, "The temporal reasoning tools TimeGraph-I-II," in Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1994.

• Massimo Poesio, George Ferguson, Peter Heeman, Chung Hee Hwang, David R. Traum, James F. Allen, Nathaniel Martin, and Lenhart K. Schubert, "Knowledge Representation in the TRAINS System," in Proceedings of the AAAI 1994 Fall Symposium on Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Processing in Implemented Systems, New Orleans, LA, November 1994. [PDF]

• James Allen, Lenhart Schubert, George Ferguson, Peter Heeman, Chung Hee Hwang, Tsuneaki Kato, Marc Light, Nathaniel Martin, Bradford Miller, Massimo Poesio, David Traum, The TRAINS Project: A Case Study in Defining a Conversational Planning Agent, TRAINS Technical Note 94-3 and Technical Report 532, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1994. [Postscript]

• Ed Yampratoom, Using Simulation-based Projection to Plan in an Uncertain and Temporally Complex World, Technical Report 531, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1994.

• Graeme Hirst, Susan McRoy, Peter Heeman, Philip Edmonds, and Diane Horton. "Repairing Conversational Misunderstandings and Non-Understandings," Speech Communications, 15, 1994. Revised version of the ISSD-94 paper.

• George Ferguson and James F. Allen, "Arguing About Plans: Plan Representation and Reasoning for Mixed-Initiative Planning," Proceedings of the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-94), Chicago, IL, 13-15 July, 1994, pp. 43-48. [PDF]

• James F. Allen and George Ferguson, "Events and Actions in Interval Temporal Logic," Journal of Logic and Computation 4(5):531-579, Special Issue on Actions and Processes, October, 1994. Also available as URCS Technical Report 521, July 1994. [Postscript]

• Peter A. Heeman. Spoken Dialogue Understanding and Local Context. TR 523, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, July 1994. [Postscript]

• Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart Schubert, "Interpreting tense, aspect, and time adverbials: a compositional, unified approach," in D.M. Gabbay and H.J. Olbach, eds., Proceedings of the First International Conference on Temporal Logic, Bonn, Germany, Springer-Verlag, July 1994, pp. 238-264.

• David R. Traum and James F. Allen, `` Discourse Obligations in Dialogue Processing,'' Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-94), pages 1--8, June 1994.

• Massimo Poesio, Discourse Interpretation and the Scope of Operators, Ph.D. Thesis and Technical Report 518, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, June 1994. [Postscript] [Postscript printed two-up]

• Peter A. Heeman and James Allen, "Detecting and Correcting Speech Repairs," in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-94), June 1994. [PDF]

• Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, On Point-Based Temporal Disjointness, Technical Report 497, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 1994. [Postscript]

• Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, Efficient Algorithms for Qualitative Reasoning about Time, Technical Report 496, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 1994. [Postscript]

• Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, On Computing the Minimal Labels in Time Point Algebra Networks, Technical Report 495, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 1994. [Postscript]

• Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, The Temporal Reasoning Systems Timegraph I-II, Technical Report 494, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 1994; revised April 1994. [Postscript]

• David R. Traum, James F. Allen, George Ferguson, Peter A. Heeman, Chung Hee Hwang, Tsuneaki Kato, Nathaniel Martin, Massimo Poesio, and Lenhart K. Schubert, "Integrating Natural Language Understanding and Plan Reasoning in the TRAINS-93 Conversation System," in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Active NLP, 21-23 March, 1994. [PDF]

• Peter Heeman and James Allen, "Tagging Speech Repairs," in ARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, March 1994. [PDF]

1993

• Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart Schubert, "Episodic Logic: A situational logic for natural language processing," in P. Aczel, D. Israel, Y. Katagiri and S. Peters, eds., Situation Theory and Its Applications 3 (STA-3), CSLI, 1993, pp. 307-452.

• Graeme Hirst, Susan McRoy, Peter Heeman, Philip Edmonds, and Diane Horton. "Repairing Conversational Misunderstandings and Non-Understandings," in International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue (ISSD-94), Waseda University, Tokyo, November 1993. Invited Paper. Also appears in The ATR Workshop on Automatic Speech Translation, 1993. Revised version appears in Speech Communications, Volume 15, pgs. 213-229, 1994. [PDF]

• Marc Light, Classification in Feature-Based Default Inheritance Hierarchies, Technical Report 473, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, November 1993. [Postscript]

• Nathaniel Martin and James Allen, Statistical Probabilities for Planning, Technical Report 474, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, November 1993. [Postscript]

• George Ferguson and James F. Allen, `` Cooperative Plan Reasoning for Dialogue Systems (Position Paper),'' AAAI Fall Symposium on Human-Computer Collaboration, Raleigh NC, 22-24 October 1993.

• Shin'ya Nakajima and James F. Allen, A study on prosody and discourse structure in cooperative dialogues (Figures), TRAINS Technical Note 93-2, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1993.

• Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart Schubert, "Meeting the interlocking needs of LF-computation, deindexing, and inference: An organic approach to general NLU", in Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 1993.

• Derek Gross, James F. Allen and David R. Traum, The TRAINS 91 Dialogues (ASCII transcripts), TRAINS Technical Note 92-1, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, June 1993.

• David R. Traum, `` Rhetorical Relations, Action and Intentionality in Conversation,'' Proceedings ACL SIG Workshop on Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations, pp. 132--135, June 1993.

• Ed Yampratoom and James F. Allen, Performance of temporal reasoning systems, TRAINS Technical Note 93-1, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 1993; revised May 1993. Also in SIGART Bulletin 4(3), July 1993.

• George Ferguson and James F. Allen, `` Generic Plan Recognition for Dialogue Systems,'' ARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, Princeton, NJ, 21-23 March, 1993.

• Peter A. Heeman, "Speech Actions and Mental States in Task-Oriented Dialogues," in Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning about Mental States: Formal Theories and Applications, March 1993. [Postscript]

• David R. Traum, `` Mental State in the TRAINS-92 Dialogue Manager,'' Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning about Mental States: Formal Theories and Applications, pp. 143--149, March 1993.

1992

• Shin'ya Nakajima and James F. Allen, "Prosody as a Cue for Discourse Structure," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-92), pp. 425-428, October 1992.

• David R. Traum and Elizabeth A. Hinkelman, "Conversation Acts in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue," in Computational Intelligence 8(3):575--599, 1992. Also appears as Technical Report 425, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, June 1992. [Postscript]

• George M. Ferguson, Explicit Representation of Events, Actions and Plans for Assumption-Based Plan Reasoning, Technical Report 428, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, June 1992. [Postscript]

• George Ferguson, Domain Plan Reasoning in TRAINS-90, TRAINS Technical Note 91-2, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, June 1992.

• Marc N. Light, Semantic Interpretation in TRAINS-90, TRAINS Technical Note 91-3, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, June 1992.

• Nathaniel G. Martin and Bradford W. Miller, The TRAINS-90 Simulator, TRAINS Technical Note 91-4, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, May 1992.

• David Traum, The Discourse Reasoner in TRAINS-90, TRAINS Technical Note 91-6, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, May 1992.

• H. Kyburg Jr. and M. Pittarelli, Set-Based Bayesianism, Technical Report 407, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, March 1992. [Postscript]

1991

• James Allen and Bradford Miller, The RHET System: A Sequence of Self-Guided Tutorials, Technical Report 325, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, July 1991. [Postscript]

• Peter Heeman. "Collaborating on referring expressions," in Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, student session, Berkeley, June 1991.

• James F. Allen and Lenhart K. Schubert, The TRAINS project, Technical Report 382 and TRAINS Technical Note 91-1, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, May 1991.

1990

• Bradford Miller, The Rhet Programmer's Guide (for Rhet Version 17.9), Technical Report 363, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, December 1990. [Postscript]

• Bradford Miller, The Rhetorical Knowledge Representation System Reference Manual (for Rhet Version 17.9), Technical Report 326, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, November 1990. [Postcript]

• Bradford Miller, The RHET Plan Recognition System Version 1.0, Technical Report 298, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, January 1990. [Postscript]