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William A. Woods
Researcher at Sun Microsystems
Publications - 64
Citations - 10030
William A. Woods is an academic researcher from Sun Microsystems. The author has contributed to research in topics: Parsing & Computational linguistics. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 64 publications receiving 9927 citations. Previous affiliations of William A. Woods include BBN Technologies & Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Founda- tion for Design
Stephen E. Boi,William G. Lycan,Harry C. Bunt,Christopher S. Butler,Basil Blackwell,Frank Fallside,William A. Woods,Joseph Y. Halpern,Klans Schubert,Sylvia Scribner,Michael Cole,Henk C. van Riemsdijk,Edwin William,Terry Winograd,Fernando Flores +14 more
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Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
TL;DR: The use of augmented transition network grammars for the analysis of natural language sentences is described, and structure-building actions associated with the arcs of the grammar network allow for a powerful selectivity which can rule out meaningless analyses and take advantage of semantic information to guide the parsing.
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What's in a link
TL;DR: The chapter presents the logical inadequacies of almost all current network notations for representing quantified information and also discusses some of the disadvantages of a few logically adequate techniques.
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What's in a Link: Foundations for Semantic Networks
TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical underpinnings for semantic network representations are discussed and the logical inadequacies of almost all current network notations for representing quantified information are discussed.
Patent
Method and apparatus for generating query responses in a computer-based document retrieval system
TL;DR: In this article, a method and apparatus for generating responses to queries to a document retrieval system is presented, which responds to a specific request for information by locating and ranking portions of text that may contain the information sought.