Dr Doug E Appelt*

Past Projects

	Aquaint: From Question-Answering to Information Seeking Dialogs From question-answering to information-seeking dialogs.
	Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes As part of DARPA’s Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) program, SRI and team members are working on developing a next-generation "Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes" (CALO).
	FASTUS A system for extracting information from free text.
	TransPAL: Transitioning PAL Technologies The TransPAL project is transitioning a number of technologies developed on the DARPA PAL program for use by various members of the Armed Services.

Publications

The following are in reverse chronological order of publication.
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• Murray, K. and Lowrance, J. and Appelt, D., and Rodriguez, A. Fostering Collaboration with a Semantic Index over Textual Contributions, in AI Technologies for Homeland Security, Papers from the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium, AAAI Press, no. SS-05-01, pp. 99-106, March 2005.  [PDF, Details]

• Murray, K. and Lowrance, J. and Appelt, D. and Rodriguez, A. Estimating Similarity among Collaboration Contributions, in Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2005.  [PDF, Details]

• Kehler, A., Appelt, D. E., Taylor L., Simma, A. The (Non)Utility of Predicate-Argument Frequencies for Pronoun Interpretation, in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference, Boston, MA, pp. 289-296, May 2004.  [PDF, Details]

• Waldinger, R. and Appelt, D. E. and Fry, J. and Israel, D. J. and Jarvis, P. and Martin, D. and Riehemann, S. and Stickel, M. E. and Tyson, M. and Hobbs, J. and Dungan, J. L. Deductive Question Answering from Multiple Resourcesin New Directions in Question Answering, AAAI, 2004.  [PDF, Details]

• Kehler, A., Appelt, D. E., Taylor L., Simma, A. Competitive Self-Trained Pronoun Interpretation, in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference, pp. 33-36, 2004.  [PDF, Details]