A knowledge-rich approach to understanding text about aircraft systems (2002)
Peter Clark, Lisbeth Duncan, Heather Holmback, Tom Jenkins, John Thompson
peter.e.clark,lisbeth.e.duncan,heather.holmback,thomas.l.jenkins2,john.a.thompson¡ As part of a longer-term goal to construct an aerospace knowledgebase (KB), we are developing techniques for...
In Proc 12th Conf on Innovative Applications of AI (AAAI/IAAI'00), pages 988-995, 2000. (2000)
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With the growth of on-line information, the need for better resource location services is growing rapidly. A popular goal is to conduct search in terms of concepts, rather than words; however, this...
Exploiting a Thesaurus-Based Semantic Net for Knowledge-Based Search (2000)
Peter Clark, John Thompson, Heather Holmback, Lisbeth Duncan
With the growth of on-line information, the need for better resource location services is growing rapidly. A popular goal is to conduct search in terms of concepts, rather than words; however, this...
Exploiting a Thesaurus-based Semantic Net for Knowledge-based Search (2000)
Peter Clark, John Thompson, Heather Holmback, Lisbeth Duncan
With the growth of on-line information, the need for better resource location services is growing rapidly. A popular goal is to conduct search in terms of concepts, rather than words; however, this...
What is a conversation policy (1999)
Mark Greaves, Heather Holmback, Jeffrey Bradshaw
In this paper we define the concept of conversation policies: declarative specifications that govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language. We discuss the role...
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Mark Greaves, Heather Holmback, Tom Karygiannis, Wayne Jansen, Barry G. Silverman, ...
This article discusses our current research directions and preliminary results in each of these areas. Theory and tools for agent communication
What Is a Conversation Policy? (1999)
Mark Greaves Heather, Heather Holmback, Jeffrey Bradshaw
In this paper we define the concept of conversation policies: declarative specifications that govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language. We discuss the role...
Designing Conversation Policies Using Joint Intention Theory (1998)
Ira A. Smith, Philip R. Cohen, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Mark Greaves, Heather Holmback
In this paper we apply the semantics sketched by Smith and Cohen [11] to the system of conversational policies developed for KAoS [1]. We show that the compositional nature of the speech-acts and...
"Agent A, Can You Pass the Salt?" - The Role of Pragmatics in Agent Communication (1998)
Heather Holmback, Mark Greaves, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Developers of current agent communication languages (ACLs) have exploited the parallels between agent communication and human communication in developing the syntax and semantics of their languages....