Robert C. Moore
Principal Scientist
Natural Language Research Program
Artificial Intelligence Center
SRI International
Internet: bmoore@ai.sri.com
Research Areas
- Spoken-language understanding
- Statistical language modeling
- Natural-language parsing
- Natural-language semantics
- Foundations of nonmonotonic reasoning
- Reasoning about knowledge and action
- Automatic deduction
Current Projects
Software Systems
Other Positions Held
- Director, SRI Natural Language Research Program (1989-92)
- Director, SRI Cambridge Computer Science Research Centre (1986-7)
- Fellow Commoner, Churchill College, Cambridge (1985-87)
- Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University (1984-85, 1987-89)
- Visiting Industrial Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Stanford
University (1983)
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1979-80)
Professional Activities
- Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- Member of editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence and
Computational Linguistics
- Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Sigma Xi
Education
- 1979 PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
- 1976 SM, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
- 1971 SB, Electrical Engineering, and SB, Political Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Selected Publications
- Logic and Representation, Center for the Study of Language and
Information, 1995
- "Integration of Speech with Natural Language Understanding," in
Voice Communication between Humans and Machines, Roe and Wilpon,
National Academy Press, 1994
- (co-author) "Interleaving Syntax and Semantics in an Efficient
Bottom-up Parser," 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association of
Computational Linguistics, June 1994
- (co-author) "Gemini: A Natural Language System for Spoken-Language
Understanding," 31st Annual Meeting of the Association of
Computational Linguistics, June 1993
- "A Formal Theory of Knowledge and Action," in Formal Theories
of the Commonsense World, Hobbs and Moore, Ablex Publishing Corp.,
1985
- "Semantical Considerations on Nonmonotonic Logic," Artificial
Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 1985
For a review of Logic and Representation, see Computing Reviews, Vol. 37, No. 5, pages
246-247, May 1996.
14 September 1996