My regular place of work is at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center but I have spent the last few years at the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France.
I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1969 on a semantics dissertation about discourse referents, definiteness, and pronoun/antecedent relations.
As a Linguistics professor at the University of Texas in Austin, 1969-1983, I worked mostly on semantics. My papers from that period are about topics such as implicative verbs, presuppositions, conventional implicatures, and questions.
During my last years at UT I became more and more interested in computational issues. The 1983 KIMMO system was an early implementation of two-level morphology.
At the SRI AI Laboratory in 1984-1987 in Menlo Park my main interest was a unification-based grammar formalism, SRI's PATR-II, and categorial grammar.
At Xerox since 1987, I have contributed towards finite-state technology and its application to morphology and syntax. If you are interested in that topic, please visit the Finite-State Home Page at the Xerox Research Centre Europe.
| The Proper Treatment of Optimality in Computational Phonology. To appear in the Proceedings of FSMNLP'98. The International Workshop on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing. Bilkent University. Ankara, Turkey. June 29-July 1, 1998. (HTML, Postscript). (ROA-258-0498) |
| (with J-P. Chanod, G.Grefenstette, A.Schiller) Regular Expressions for Language Engineering. Natural Language Engineering 2(4) 305-328. (HTML) |
| Directed Replacement. In The Proceedings of the 34rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL-96, Santa Cruz, California. (HTML) |
| The Replace Operator. In The Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL-95, pages 16-23, Boston, Massachusetts. (HTML) |
| Constructing Lexical Transducers. In The Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Coling 94, I, pages 406-411, Kyoto, Japan. (HTML) |
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