johnbear.net: publications

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Most of the links on this page point to PDF format versions of the papers on the "Anthology Archive" of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Last updated: April 7, 2007.

• John Bear (2005) "The Perfect Keyboard For GNU Emacs And XML: The Symbolics/Apple MacIvory"
• Andrew Kehler, John Bear, Douglas Appelt (2001) "The Effect of Improper Alignment in Natural Language System Evaluation," Computational Linguistics, vol., 27, no., 2.
• Andrew Kehler, Jean-Claude Martin, Adam Cheyer, Luc Julia, Jerry R. Hobbs, and John Bear (1998) "On Representing Salience and Reference in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction," in Proceedings of the AAAI-98 Workshop on Representations for Multi-modal Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 33-39, Madison, July, 1998.
• John Bear, David Israel, Jeff Petit, David Martin (1998) "Using Information Extraction to Improve Document Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the TREC6 Conference, 1998. Ed. Harman and Voorhees. Published by the National Institute of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
• Jerry Hobbs, Douglas Appelt, John Bear, David Israel, Megumi Kameyama, Mark Stickel, and Mabry Tyson (1996) "FASTUS: A Cascaded Finite-State Transducer for Extracting Information from Natural Language Text." In Emmanuel Roche and Yves Schabes (eds.) Finite State Devices for Natural Language Processing. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Douglas Appelt, John Bear, Jerry Hobbs, David Israel, Megumi Kameyama, Andrew Kehler, Mark Stickel, and Mabry Tyson (1995) "SRI International's FASTUS System MUC-6 Test Results and Analysis." In Proceedings of the 6th Message Understanding Conference, ARPA, Columbia, MD.
• Douglas Appelt, Jerry Hobbs, John Bear, David Israel, and Mabry Tyson (1993) "FASTUS: a finite-state processor for information extraction from real-world text," in Proceedings of IJCAI-93, (Chambery, France), September 1993.
• Douglas Appelt, Jerry Hobbs, John Bear, David Israel, Megumi Kameyama, and Mabry Tyson (1993) "SRI: Description of the JV-FASTUS System Used for MUC-5," in the Proceedings of the Fifth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-5) (B. Sundheim, ed.), (Tokyo, Japan), ARPA, August 1993. Contains Japanese characters.
• Jerry Hobbs, Douglas E. Appelt, John Bear, Mabry Tyson, and David Magerman (1992) "Robust Processing of Real-World Natural-Language Texts." In Paul S. Jacobs, ed., Text-based Intelligent Systems: Current Research and Practice in Information Extraction and Retrieval. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Hillsdale, New Jersey.
• Bear, John, John Dowding, Elizabeth Shriberg, and Patti Price (1993) "A System for Labeling Self-Repairs in Speech," SRI AI Center Tech Note #522.
• Dowding, John, Jean Mark Gawron, Douglas Appelt, John Bear, Lyn Cherny, Robert C. Moore, and Douglas Moran (1993) "Gemini: A Natural Language System for Spoken-Language Understanding," in the Proceedings of the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio. Also in the Proceedings of the DARPA Human Language Technology Workshop.
• John Bear, John Dowding, and Elizabeth Shriberg (1992) "Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources For Detection And Correction Of Repairs In Human-Computer Dialog," in Proceedings of the ACL, 1992.
• Shriberg, Elizabeth, John Bear, and John Dowding (1992) "Automatic Detection and Correction of Repairs in Human-Computer Dialog," in Proceedings of Fifth DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language.
• Hobbs, Jerry R., Douglas E. Appelt, John Bear, and Mabry Tyson, David Magerman (1992) "Robust Parsing of Real-World Natural-Language Texts," in the Proceedings of the Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing. Reprinted in Text-Based Intelligent Systems, ed. Jacobs, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1992.
• Jackson, Eric, Doug Appelt, John Bear, Robert Moore, and Ann Podlozny (1991) "A Template Matcher for Robust NL Interpretation," in Proceedings of the Fourth DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language.
• Hy Murveit, Douglas Appelt, Christopher Barker, John Bear, John Butzberger, John Dowding, Eric Jackson, David Magerman, Robert Moore, Douglas Moran, Ann Podlozny, Patti Price, and Mitchel Weintraub (1991) "SRI's speech and natural language evaluation," in Proceedings Fourth DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language, (Asilomar, California), 19--22 February 1991.
• Jerry Hobbs and John Bear (1990) "Two Principles of Parse Preference," in Proceedings of COLING 1990. Also in _Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honor of Don Walker_, ed. Antonio Zampoli, Nicoletta Calzolari, and Martha Palmer; Vol IX, X of Linguistica Computazionale pub. in 1994 by Kluwer Academic Press, Norwell, MA, USA.
• John Bear (1990) "Backwards Phonology," in proceedings of COLING 1990, The 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, organized by the International Committee on Computational Linguistics, ed., Hans Karlgren.
• Mari Ostendorf, Patti Price, Colin Wightman, and John Bear (1990) "The Use of Relative Duration in Syntactic Disambiguation," in proceedings of DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, 1990. Also in the proceedings of ICSLP 90 (International Conference on Spoken Language Processing), Kobe, Japan.
• John Bear and Patti Price (1990) "Prosody, Syntax, and Parsing," in Proceedings of the ACL.
• Patti Price, Victor Abrash, Douglas Appelt, John Bear, Jared Bernstein, Bridget Bly, John Butzberger, Michael Cohen, Eric Jackson, Robert Moore, Douglas Moran, Hy Murveit, and Mitchel Weintraub (1990) "Spoken language system integration and development," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), (Kobe, Japan), 1990.
• Robert Moore, Douglas Appelt, John Bear, Mary Dalrymple, and Douglas Moran (1990) "SRI's experience with the ATIS evaluation," in Proceedings Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania, (San Mateo, California), pp. 147--148, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc, 24--27 June 1990.
• Bear, John (1988) "Generation and Recognition of Inflectional Morphology," in Proceedings of the Austrian Artificial-Intelligence Meeting, Vienna Workshop on Knowledge-based Language Processing, 1988.
• Bear, John (1988) "Morphology With Two-level Rules and Negative Rule Features," in Proceedings of COLING 1988.
• Bear, John and Jerry R. Hobbs (1988) "Localizing Expression of Ambiguity," in Proceedings of the Second ACL conference on Applied Natural Language Processing.
• Bear, John (1987) "Feature-Value Unification with Disjunctions," unpublished manuscript.
• Bear, John "A Morphological Analyzer with Syntactic and Phonological Rules," in Proceedings of COLING 1986.
• Bear, John (1983) "A Breadth First Parsing Model," in Proceedings of IJCAI 1983.
• Bear, John (1982) "Gaps as Syntactic Features," Technical Note, Indiana University Linguistics Club.
• Bear, John and Lauri Karttunen (1979) "PSG: A Simple Phrase Structure Parser," in Texas Linguistic Forum No. 15, University of Texas Linguistics Department, Austin.