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Design of the Mikrokosmos System and its Knowledge Sources

Onyshkevych, B. and S. Nirenburg. 1995. "A Lexicon for Knowledge-Based MT." Machine Translation, 10:1-2.

Kavi Mahesh and Sergei Nirenburg. (1995a). A Situated Ontology for Practical NLP. In Proc. Workshop on Basic Ontological Issues in Knowledge Sharing, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Aug. 19-20, 1995. Montreal, Canada.
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Kavi Mahesh and Sergei Nirenburg. (1995b). Semantic Classification for Practical Natural Language Processing. In Proc. Sixth ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: An Interdisciplinary Meeting. October 8, 1995, Chicago IL.
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Kavi Mahesh and Sergei Nirenburg. (1996). Meaning Representation for Knowledge Sharing in Practical Machine Translation In the Proceedings of the FLAIRS-96 track on Information Interchange, Florida AI Research Symposium, May 1996.
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Mahesh, K. 1996. "Modeling the Costs of Ambiguity Resolution and Syntax-Semantics Interaction." Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Diego, CA.

Nirenburg, S., S. Beale, K. Mahesh, B. Onyshkevych, V. Raskin, E. Viegas, Y. Wilks and R. Zajac. 1996. "Lexicons in the Mikrokosmos project." Proceedings of the Society for Artificial Intelligence and Simulated Behavior Workshop on Multilinguality in the Lexicon, Brighton, UK.

Viegas, E. and S. Nirenburg. 1995. The Semantic Recovery of Event Ellipsis: Its Computational Treatment.Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95) Workshop on Meaning in Context, Montreal.

Viegas, E., Mahesh, K., Nirenburg, S. and S. Beale. 1999. Semantics in Action. In P. Saint-Dizier (ed). Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases, Kluwer Academic Press.
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Knowledge Acquisition

Viegas, E. 1999. An Overt Semantics with a Machine-guided Approach for Robust LKBs. In the Proceedings of SIGLEX99 Standardizing Lexical Resources, as part of ACL99, University of Maryland.
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Viegas, E. and V. Raskin. 1998. Computational Semantic Lexicon Acquisition: Methodology and Guidelines. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science. MCCS-98-315. New Mexico State University: Computing Research Laboratory.
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Viegas, E., B. Onyshkevych, V. Raskin and S. Nirenburg. 1996. From Submit to Submitted via Submission: on Lexical Rules in Large-scale Lexicon Acquisition. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-96). Santa Cruz, CA.
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Kavi Mahesh. (1996). Ontology Development for Machine Translation: Ideology and Methodology. Technical Report MCCS 96-292, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
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Viegas, E., M. Gonzales and J. Longwell. 1996. Morpho-semantics and Constructive Derivational Morphology: A Transcategorical Approach. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science. NMSU CRL Technical Report, MCCS-96-295.

Viegas, E. and S. Nirenburg. 1996. The Ecology of Lexical Acquisition: Computational Lexicon Making Process." Proceedings of the European Association of Lexography., Göteburg University, Sweden. Nirenburg, S., K. Mahesh, E. Viegas, S. Beale, V. Raskin and B. Onyshkevych. 1996. "Technological and Conceptual Tools for Lexical Knowledge Acquisition." Proceedings of DIALOGUE-96, Moscow, Russia.

Raskin, V. and S. Nirenburg. 1995. "Lexical Semantics of Adjectives." NMSU CRL Technical Report, MCCS-95-288.

Computational Techniques, Generation and Analysis

Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg, Evelyne Viegas and Leo Wanner. 1998. De-Constraining Text Generation.  Submitted to INLG98.
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Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg and Evelyne Viegas.  1998.  Constraints in Computational Semantics.  Submitted to Coling98.
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Beale, Stephen, Evelyne Viegas and Sergei Nirenburg.  1997.  Breaking Down Barriers: The Mikrokosmos Generator.  In Proc. NLPRS97, Phuket, Thailand.
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Beale, Stephen. 1997. Hunter-Gatherer: Applying Constraint Satisfaction, Branch-and-Bound and Solution Synthesis to Computational Semantics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. 1997.
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Beale, Stephen. 1997. Using Branch-and-Bound with Constraint Satisfaction in Optimization Problems In Proc. AAAI-97. Providence, Rhode Island.
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Beale, Stephen, Sergei Nirenburg and Kavi Mahesh. 1996. HUNTER-GATHERER: Three Search Techniques Integrated for Natural Language Semantics. In Proc. AAAI-96. Aug. 4-8, 1996. Portland, Or.
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Beale, S. 1996. "Hunter-Gatherer: Applying Constraint Satisfaction, Branch-and-Bound and Solution Synthesis to Natural Language Semantics." NMSU CRL Technical Report, MCCS-96-289. Computing Research Lab, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Beale, S. and S. Nirenburg. 1996. "PICARD, The Next Generator." Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Herstmonceux, Sussex.
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Beale, S. and E. Viegas. 1996. "Intelligent Planning Meets Intelligent Planners." Proceedings of the Natural Language Generation Workshop at ECAI'96.
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Beale, S., S. Nirenburg and K. Mahesh. 1995. "Semantic Analysis in the Mikrokosmos Machine Translation Project." Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Natural Language Processing, Bangkok, Thailand, 297-307.
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Beale, S. and S. Nirenburg. 1995. "Dependency-Directed Text Planning." Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95) Workshop on Multilingual Text Generation, Montreal, Quebec, 13-21.
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Beale, Stephen. 1994. "Dependency-Directed Text Generation." Technical Report MCCS-94-272, Computing Research Lab, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Tutin, A. and E. Viegas. 1996. "Generating Coreferential Anaphoric Definite NPs." Proceedings of Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium. Lancaster University, England.

Viegas, E. and S. Beale. 1996. "Multilinguality and Reversibility in Computational Semantic Lexicons." Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Herstmonceux, Sussex.

General Theoretical and Evaluation Issues, Opinions and Surveys

Nirenburg, S., V. Raskin and B. Onyshkevych. 1995. "Apologiae Ontologiae." Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-95), Leuven, Belgium.

Nirenburg, S., K. Mahesh and S. Beale. 1996. "Measuring Semantic Coverage." Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-96). Copenhagen.

S. Nirenburg, S. Beale, S. Helmreich, K. Mahesh, E. Viegas and R. Zajac. 1996. "Two Principles and Six Techniques for Rapid MT Development." Submitted to AMTA-96.

Nirenburg, S. 1996. "The Inflexible Fickleness of Fashion." IEEE Expert Intelligent Systems and Their Applications, 4: 15-16.

Nirenburg, S. 1996. "Bar Hillel on Machine Translation: Then and Now." Proceedings of BISFAI-95, Bar Ilan University. Israel, June.

Farwell, D. and S. Helmreich. 1995. "This is Not a Bedroom Farce: Pragmatics and Translation," Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, 73-83.

Mahesh, K. and S. Nirenburg. In press. "Knowledge-Based Systems for NLP." In: A. Tucker (ed.), CRC Press Handbook of Computer Science and Engineering.

Descriptions of Applications

Farwell, D., S. Helmreich and M. Casper. 1995. "SPOST: a Spanish Part-of-Speech Tagger." Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 17: 42-57.

Sheremetyeva, S. and S. Nirenburg. 1996. "Computational Morphology with a Minimum of Acquisition Effort." Proceedings of DIALOGUE-96, Moscow, Russia.

Jin W. and L. Chen. 1995. "Identifying Unknown Words in Chinese Corpora." Proceedings of the 3rd Natural Language Processing Pacific-Rim Symposium (NLPRS '95), vol 1 pp. 234-239. Seoul, Korea.

Heald, I. and R. Zajac. 1996. "Syntactic and Semantic Problems in the Use of a Controlled Language." Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Computational Linguistics.

Zajac, R. 1996. "A Multilingual Translator's Workstation for Information Access." International Conference on natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications, NLP+IA '96. June 4-6, 1996. Moncton, New-Brunswick, Canada.

Zajac, R. and M. Vanni. In press. "Glossary-Based MT Engines in a Multilingual Analysts's Workstation Architecture." Machine Translation.

Sheremetyeva, S. and S. Nirenburg. 1996. "Interactive Knowledge Elicitation in a Patent Expert's Workstation." IEEE Computer (in press).

Sheremetyeva, S. and S. Nirenburg. 1996. "Generating Patent Claims from Interactive Input." Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Herstmonceux, Sussex.


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