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title: "ACL 1981 — all accepted papers with summaries and citations"
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# ACL 1981: all accepted papers

36 papers · the most cited first · [← ACL 1981](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1981/)

1. **[A Case for Rule-Driven Semantic Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1029/)**Martha Palmer
2. **[A Construction-Specific approach to Focused Interaction in Flexible Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1033/)**Philip J. Hayes
3. **[A Grammar and a Lexicon for a Text-Production System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1013/)**Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
4. **[A Practical Comparison of Parsing Strategies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1001/)**Jonathan Slocum
5. **[A Rule-based Conversation Participant ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1018/)**Robert E. Frederking
6. **[A Situation Semantics Approach to the Analysis of Speech Acts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1027/)**David Andreoff Evans
7. **[A Taxonomy for English Nouns and Verbs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/amsler-1981-taxonomy-english-nouns-verbs/)**Robert A. Amsler*our summary*
8. **[A View of Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1023/)**Ronald M. Kaplan
9. **[Analogies in Spontaneous Discourse ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1015/)**Rachel Reichman
10. **[Artificial Intelligence Corporation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1007/)**J. Norwood Crout
11. **[Chart Parsing and Rule Schemata in PSG ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1036/)**Henry Thompson
12. **[Computational Complexity and Lexical Functional Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1002/)**Robert C. Berwick
13. **[Controlled Transformational Sentence Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1034/)**Madeleine Bates, Robert Ingria
14. **[Corepresentational Grammar and Parsing English Comparatives ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1003/)**Karen Ryan
15. **[Dynamic Strategy Selection in Flexible Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1032/)**Jaime G. Carbonell, Philip J. Hayes
16. **[Evaluation of Natural Language Interfaces to Data Base Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1011/)**Bozena Henisz Thompson
17. **[Evaluation of Natural Language Interfaces to Database Systems: A Panel Discussion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1006/)**Norman K. Sondheimer
18. **[Field Testing the Transformational Question Answering (TQA) System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1009/)**S. R. Petrick
19. **[Interpreting Natural Language Database Updates ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1031/)**S. Jerrold Kaplan, Jim Davidson
20. **[Investigation of Processing Strategies for the Structural Analysis of Arguments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1016/)**Robin Cohen
21. **[Language Production: the Source of the Dictionary ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1014/)**David D. McDonald
22. **[PHONY: A Heuristic Phonological Analyzer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1005/)**Lee A. Becker
23. **[Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1022/)**Ralph Grishman
24. **[Performance Comparison of Component Algorithms for the Phonemicization of Orthography ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1004/)**Jared Bernstein, Larry Nessly
25. **[Perspectives on Parsing Issues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1020/)**Jane J. Robinson
26. **[Perspectives on Parsing Issues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1024/)**Christopher K. Riesbeck
27. **[Presupposition and Implicature in Model-Theoretic Pragmatics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1025/)**Douglas B. Moran
28. **[Problems in Logical Form ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1028/)**Robert C. Moore
29. **[Search and Inference Strategies in Pronoun Resolution: An Experimental Study ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1019/)**Kate Ehrlich
30. **[Selective Planning of Interface Evaluations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1008/)**William C. Mann
31. **[Some Computational Aspects of Situation Semantics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1026/)**Jon Barwise
32. **[Some Issues in Parsing and Natural Language Understanding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1021/)**Robert J. Bobrow, Bonnie L. Webber
33. **[Transportable Natural-Language Interfaces to Databases ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1035/)**Gary G. Hendrix, William H. Lewis
34. **[Two Discourse Generators ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1012/)**William C. Mann
35. **[What Makes Evaluation Hard? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1010/)**Harry Tennant
36. **[What's Necessary to Hide?: Modeling Action Verbs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P81-1017/)**James F. Allen
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