Although disfluent speech is pervasive in spoken conversation, disfluencies have received
little attention within formal theories of grammar. The majority of work on disfluent language …

Despite the large amount of theoretical work done on non-constituent coordination during
the last two decades, many computational systems still treat coordination using adapted …

Dynamics is the formal study of systems involving states and transitions between states. A
natural application of dynamics is to the study of language processing, where words or …

A natural language parser implemented entirely in simulated neurons is described. It
produces a semantic representation based on frames. It parses solely using simulated …

Multimodal natural-language based dialogue is increasingly becoming a feasible and
attractive human-machine interface. Such interfaces offer a mode of interaction that has …

This paper presents a machine learning-based approach to the incremental understanding
of dialogue utterances, with a focus on the recognition of their communicative functions. A …

A formal analysis of ambiguity processing is a necessary prerequisite for the development of
a theory of underspecification and discourse interpretation for NLP systems. The analysis …

The paper describes a parser for Categorial Grammar which provides fully word by word
incremental interpretation. The parser does not require fragments of sentences to form …

Incremental natural language understanding is the task of assigning semantic
representations to successively larger prefixes of utterances. We compare two types of …

It is generally agreed that discourse has a recursive structure and that this structure a ects
the semantic interpretation of discourse. Despite this consensus however, few proposals …