Douglas E. Appelt
Senior Computer Scientist

Douglas E. Appelt, EK284
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Internet: appelt@ai.sri.com
Phone: 650/859-6150
Fax: 650/859-3735

If you're on a Mac or PC, you should hear music if you have a midi interface plug-in for Netscape. Yamaha MIDPLUG rules! If you ain't got it, get it now.

Research Areas

Information Extraction from Text
Language Generation
Dialog Systems

Projects

TIPSTER Text Processing (DARPA - HLS program)
Message Handler (DARPA - DMIF program)

Software Systems

FASTUS
Warbreaker Message Handler
SRI ATIS Speech Understanding System

Professional Activities

Association for Computational Linguistics (Vice President 1994, President 1995)
Editorial Board, Computational Intelligence

Academic Background

B.S. with High Honors in Computer Science, Michigan State University (1975)
M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University, (1979)
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University, (1981)

Research-Related Information

Tutorial on information extraction (Given at ANLP-97, Washington, D.C.)
TextPro is an information extraction system for PowerPC Macintosh that I'm developing in my spare time. You can get a free copy.

Representative Publications

Hobbs, Appelt, Bear, Israel, Kameyama, Stickel and Tyson, FASTUS: A Cascaded Finite-State Transducer for Extracting Information from Natural-Language Text, in Roche and Schabes, eds., Finite State Devices for Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1996.
Dowding, Gawron, Appelt, Bear, Cherny, Moore, and Moran, GEMINI: A Natural Language System for Spoken-Language Understanding, Proc. of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1993)
Hobbs, Appelt, Bear, and Tyson, Robust Processing of Real-World Natural-Language Texts, Proc. of the 3rd ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, (1992)
Appelt and Pollack, Weighted Abduction for Plan Ascription, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, Vol 1, No. 2 (1992)
Appelt and Konolige, A Practical Nonmonotonic Theory for Reasoning about Speech Acts, Proc. of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1988)
Grosz, Appelt, Martin, and Pereira, TEAM: An Experiment in the Design of Transportable Natural Language Interfaces,Artificial Intelligence, vol. 32 (1987)
Appelt, Planning English Sentences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England (1985)
Appelt, Planning English Referring Expressions, Artificial Intelligence, vol. 26 (1985)