THE TROUBLE WITH MEMORY DISTINCTIONS (2009)
People have an enormous variety of knowledge: for example, there is phonemic, prosodic, syntactic, lexical, semantic, and pragmatic knowledge; there is knowledge about sights, sounds, smells, tastes,...
DESIG ~ DIMENSIONS FOR NON-NORMATIVE ONDERSTARDING SYSTEMS Robert J. (2009)
Madelelne Bates, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
This position paper is not based upon direct experience with the design and implementation of a "non-normative " natural language system, but rather draws upon our work on cascade [11]
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (2009)
Bolt Beranek, Sheldon Baron, David L. Kleinman
Distribution of this report is provided in the interest of information exchange. Responsibility for the contents resides in the author or organization that prepared it. I ~ " Pr pared under...
SPEECH UNDERSTANDING AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (2008)
Jack Mostow, William Woods, Bolt Beranek, S. R. Petrick
tical Examination of the ARPA Project,
David J. Montana, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
We have developed an algorithm to detect the presence of narrowband signals and track the time evolution of their center frequencies. This algorithm has 35 parameters whose optimal values depend on...
Philip R. Cohen, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc, C. Raymond Perrault
This paper explores the truism that people think about what they say. It proposes hat, to satisfy their own goals, people often plan their speech acts to affect their listenerr ’ beliefs, goals,...
Ben Hegbreitt, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
Current methods for mechanical program verification require a complete predicate specification on each loop. Because this is tedious and error-prone, producing a program with complete, correct...
Eugene Charniak, David M. Magerman, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
The $64,000 question in computational linguistics these days is: "What should I read to learn about statistical natural language processing? " I have been asked this question over...
DOS-26 Rev A Virtual Local Network RFC 824 THE CRONUS VIRTUAL LOCAL NETWORK (2007)
William I. Macgregor, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
[The purpose of this note is to describe the CRONUS Virtual Local Network, especially the addressing related features. These features include a method for mapping between Internet Addresses and Local...
Resource Sharing Computer Network (2007)
Request Comments, Bolt Beranek
A Note on Interprocess Communication in a Resource Sharing Computer Network The attached note is a draft of a study I am still working on. It may be of general interest to network participants.
1.1 The Origins of Congestion (2007)
John Robinson, Dan Friedman, Martha Steenstrup, Bolt Beranek
We define congestion in a packet network
RFC 802: The ARPANET 1822L Host Access Protocol (2007)
Andrew Malis Netmail, Andrew G. Malis, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc, Rfc Andrew, G. Malis
This document proposes two major changes to the current ARPANET host access protocol. The first change will allow hosts to use logical addressing (i.e., host addresses that are independent of their...
This RFC specifies the ARPANET Short Blocking Feature, which will (2007)
Andrew G. Malis, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
This RFC specifies the ARPANET Short Blocking Feature, which will allow ARPANET hosts to optionally shorten the IMP’s host blocking timer. This Feature is a replacement of the ARPANET non-blocking...
Request for Comments: 851 Obsoletes RFC: 802 The ARPANET 1822L Host Access Protocol RFC 851 (2007)
Andrew G. Malis, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc, Moulton St
This RFC specifies the ARPANET 1822L Host Access Protocol, which is a successor to the existing 1822 Host Access Protocol. 1822L allows ARPANET hosts to use logical names as well as 1822’s physical...
Suggested Solution To, Debra P. Deutsch, Bolt Beranek, Debbie Deutsch
this document, written with the hope that its content, and any discussion which it spurs, will contribute towards the design of the next generation of computer-based message creation and delivery...
Issues in the development of human-computer mixed-initiative planning (1996)
Mark H. Burstein, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc, Drew V. Mcdermott
"A mixed-initiative system is one in which both humans and machines can make contributions to a problem solution, often without being asked explicitly."-- Jaime Carbonell, Sr....
Reflections on the Knowledge Needed to Process Ill-Formed Language (1996)
Ralph M. Weischedel, Lance A. Ramshaw, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
This paper reflects about the kinds of morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic knowledge needed to process ill-formed input. We conclude that an excellent start on processing ill—formed...
Lattice-Based Search Strategies For Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition (1995)
Frederick Richardson, Frederick Richardson, Dr. Mari Ostendorf, Associate Professor, Rich Schwartz, Senior Scientist, ...
The design of search algorithms is an important issue in recognition, particularly for very large vocabulary, continuous speech. It is an especially crucial problem when computationally expensive...
Neural network weight selection using genetic algorithms (1995)
David J. Montana, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
Neural networks are a computational paradigm modeled on the human brain that has become popular in
Genetic Search of a Generalized Hough Transform Space (1994)
David J. Montana, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
We use a Generalized Hough transform (GHT) to detect and track instances of a class of sonar signals. This class consists of a four-dimensional set of curves and hence requires a four-dimensional...
Review of "Statistical language learning" by Eugene Charniak (1993)
Eugene Charniak, David M. Magerman, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
Introduction The $64,000 question in computational linguistics these days is: "What should I read to learn about statistical natural language processing?" I have been asked this question...
Robust Estimation of Stocchastic Segment Models for Word Recognition (1990)
Ashvin Kannan, Mari Ostendorf, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
In this work, we develop robust estimation techniques for a continuous-word recognition system using the Stochastic Segment model (SSM). This work is done under the N-best rescoring formalism, where...
The logic of plausible reasoning (1989)
A. Collins, R. S. Michalski, A Core Theory, A Core Theory, Allan Collins, Bolt Beranek, ...
The paper presents a core theory of human plausible reasoning based on analysis of people's answers ta everyday questions about the world. The theory cansists of three parts: 1. a farmal...
Improving round-trip time estimates in reliable transport protocols (1987)
Phil Karn, Craig Partridge, Bolt Beranek
As a reliable, end-to-end transport protocol, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) uses positive acknowledgements and retransmission to guarantee delivery. TCP implementations are expected to...
An overview of the KL-ONE knowledge representation system (1985)
James G. Schmolze, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
KL-ONE lets one define and use a class of descriptive terms called Concepts, where each Concept denotes a set of objects A subsumption relation between Concepts is defined which is related to set...
Vulnerabilities of Network Control Protocols: An Example (1981)
Bolt Beranek, Rfc Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc, Newman Inc, Eric C. Rosen, Eric C. Rosen, ...
This paper has appeared in the January 1981 edition of the
RFC 789 Vulnerabilities of Network Control Protocols: An Example (1981)
Eric Rosen Bolt, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc, Eric C. Rosen, Eric C. Rosen, Eric C. Rosen
This paper has appeared in the January 1981 edition of the SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, and will soon appear in the SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review. It is being circulated as an RFC...
A majority consensus approach to concurrency control for multiple copy databases (1979)
Robert H. Thomas, Bolt Beranek
A “majority consensus ” algorithm which represents a new solution to the update synchronization problem for multiple copy databases is presented. The algorithm embodies distributed control and...
Fragments of a theory of human plausible reasoning (1978)
Allan Collins, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc
The paper outlines a computational theory of human plausible reasoning constructed from analysis of people's answers to everyday questions. Like logic, the theory is expressed in a...
Bonnie Nash-webber, Bolt Beranek, Newman Inc, Raymond Reiter
We a rgue, on favor of repre sentations We t hen adop f unct ion " for repre sentation, ident ifying th of anaphoric sugge sts c prope rties of a facil itate th possi ble ante appro priate re...
Resource Sharing Computer Network (1970)
Request Comments, Bolt Beranek
A Note on Interprocess Communication in a Resource Sharing Computer Network The attached note is a draft of a study I am still working on. It may be of general interest to network participants....