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    Coherence and Coreference
    Cognitive Science 3 (1): 67-90. 1979.
    Coherence in conversations and in texts can be partially characterized by a set of coherence relations, motivated ultimately by the speaker's or writer's need to be understood. In this paper, formal definitions are given for several coherence relations, based on the operations of an inference system; that is, the relations between successive portions of a discourse are characterized in terms of the inferences that can be drawn from each. In analyzing a discourse, it is frequently the case that w…Read more
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    Spatial representation and reasoning
    with Srini Narayanan
    In Lynn Nadel (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan. 2002.
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    Interpretation as abduction
    with Mark E. Stickel, Douglas E. Appelt, and Paul Martin
    Artificial Intelligence 63 (1-2): 69-142. 1993.
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    Conversation as Planned Behavior
    with David Andreoff Evans
    Cognitive Science 4 (4): 349-377. 1980.
    In this paper, planning models developed in artificial intelligence are applied to the kind of planning that must be carried out by participants in a conversation. A planning mechanism is defined, and a short fragment of a free‐flowing videotaped conversation is described. The bulk of the paper is then devoted to an attempt to understand the conversation in terms of the planning mechanism. This microanalysis suggests ways in which the planning mechanism must be augmented, and reveals several imp…Read more
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    Formal Theories of the Commonsense World (edited book)
    with Robert C. Moore
    Greenwood. 1985.
    This volume is a collection of original contributions about the core knowledge in fundamental domains. It includes work on naive physics, such as formal specifications of intuitive theories of spatial relations, time causality, substance and physical objects, and on naive psychology.
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    Against Confusion
    Diacritics 18 (3): 78. 1988.
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    16 Syntax and Metonymy
    In Pierrette Bouillon & Federica Busa (eds.), The Language of Word Meaning, Cambridge University Press. pp. 290. 2001.
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    Making computational sense of Montague's intensional logic
    with Stanley J. Rosenschein
    Artificial Intelligence 9 (3): 287-306. 1977.