--- title: "Douglas Appelt — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Douglas Appelt: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1987–1988), h-index 25 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douglas-appelt/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douglas-appelt/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Douglas Appelt # Douglas Appelt Douglas Appelt has 2 papers in our library, in 1987–1988, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/). 2 papers in our library · 1987–1988 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5072029343) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5072029343) · [69 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5072029343) · [4,105 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5072029343&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douglas-appelt/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 14 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douglas-appelt/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6886](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/69/#star-6886) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Douglas+Appelt) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Douglas+Appelt) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Douglas+Appelt) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Douglas+Appelt) ## Affiliations [🔬**SRI International** Menlo Park · United States 1980–2004 · 33 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/sri-international/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 1980–1985 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Works by year ### 1980s [**1988** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douglas-appelt/year/1988/) · [**1987** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douglas-appelt/year/1987/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Bidirectional Grammars and the Design of Natural Language Generation Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/appelt-1987-bidirectional-grammars-design-natural-language/)** *(1987 · 59 citations)* This is a position paper on the architecture of systems that both understand and generate natural language. 2. **[A Practical Nonmonotonic Theory for Reasoning about Speech Acts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/appelt-1988-practical-nonmonotonic-theory-reasoning-about/)** *(1988 · 37 citations)* The paper asks how to formally describe what changes in the beliefs of a speaker and a hearer after an utterance, since the outcome depends heavily on context. ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 1988](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1988/) - [Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing (TINLAP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/): [TINLAP 1987](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 14 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douglas-appelt/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026