Mark A. Jones

AAAI Conference 1992 Conference Paper

A Probabilistic Parser Applied to Software Testing Documents

• Mark A. Jones

We describe an approach to training a statistical parser from a bracketed corpus, and demonstrate its use in a software testing application that translates English specifications into an automated testing language. A grammar is not explicitly specified; the rules and contextual probabilities of occurrence are automatically generated from the corpus. The parser is extremely successful at producing and identifying the correct parse, and nearly deterministic in the number of parses that it produces. To compensate for undertraining, the parser also uses general, linguistic subtheories which aid in guessing some types of novel structures.

IJCAI Conference 1987 Conference Paper

Feedback as a Coindexing Mechanism in Connectionist Architectures

• Mark A. Jones

IJCAI Conference 1983 Conference Paper

Activation-Based Parsing

• Mark A. Jones

AAAI Conference 1982 Conference Paper

Conceptual Dependency and Montague Grammar: A Step Toward Conciliation

• Mark A. Jones

In attempting to establish a common basis from which the approaches and results can be compared, we have taken a conciliatory attitude toward natural language research in the conceptual dependency (CD) paradigm and Montague Grammar (MG) formalism. Although these two approaches may seem to be strange bedfellows indeed with often noticeably different perspectives, we have observed many commonalities. We begin with a brief description of the problem view and ontology of each and then create a formulation of CD as logic. We then give "conceptual" MG translations for the words in an example sentence which we use in approximating a word-based parsing style. Finally, we make some suggestions regarding further extensions of logic to introduce higher level representations.