--- title: "ACL 1988 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "ACL 1988 — accepted papers: 3 papers in the Elamur Research library (Buffalo, New York, USA), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1988/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1988/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [ACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) / 1988 # ACL 1988 — accepted papers ACL 1988 is the 1988 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Buffalo, New York, USA, June 1988 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 35 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Buffalo, New York, [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) · 🗓 June 1988 [**35** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1988/#works) · [**160** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1988/#works) ## All accepted papers (35) The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Computational Theory of Perspective and Reference in Narrative ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1016/)**Janyce M. Wiebe, William J. Rapaport 2. **[A Definite Clause Version of Categorial Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1033/)**Remo Pareschi 3. **[A General Computational Treatment of Comparatives for Natural Language Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1006/)**Bruce W. Ballard 4. **[A Logic for Semantic Interpretation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1011/)**Eugene Charniak, Robert Goldman 5. **[A Practical Nonmonotonic Theory for Reasoning about Speech Acts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1021/)**Douglas Appelt, Kurt Konolige 6. **[Adapting an English Morphological Analyzer for French ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1001/)**Roy J. Byrd, Evelyne Tzoukermann 7. **[An Earley-Type Parsing Algorithm for Tree Adjoining Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1032/)**Yves Schabes, Aravind K. Joshi 8. **[An Integrated Framework for Semantic and Pragmatic Interpretation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pollack-1988-integrated-framework-semantic-pragmatic-interpretation/)**Martha E. Pollack, Fernando C.N. Pereira*our summary* 9. **[Aspects of Clause Politeness in Japanese: An Extended Inquiry Semantics Treatment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1018/)**John A. Bateman 10. **[Assigning Intonational Features in Synthesized Spoken Directions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1023/)**James Raymond Davis, Julia Hirschberg 11. **[Atomization in Grammar Sharing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1024/)**Megumi Kameyama 12. **[Combinatory Categorial Grammars: Generative Power and Relationship to Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1034/)**David J. Weir, Aravind K. Joshi 13. **[Conditional Descriptions in Functional Unification Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1029/)**Robert T. Kasper 14. **[Cues and control in Expert-Client Dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1015/)**Steve Whittaker, Phil Stenton 15. **[Deductive Parsing With Multiple Levels of Representation. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1030/)**Mark Johnson 16. **[Defining the Semantics of Verbal Modifiers in the Domain of Cooking Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1008/)**Robin F. Karlin 17. **[Discourse Deixis: Reference to Discourse Segments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/webber-1988-discourse-deixis-reference-discourse-segments/)**Bonnie Lynn Webber*our summary* 18. **[Experiences With an On-Line Translating Dialogue System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1019/)**Seiji Miike, Koichi Hasebe, Harold Somers et al. 19. **[Graph-structured Stack and Natural Language Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1031/)**Masaru Tomita 20. **[Interpretation as Abduction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1012/)**Jerry R. Hobbs, Mark Stickel, Paul Martin et al. 21. **[Lexicon and grammar in probabilistic tagging of written English.](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/beale-1988-lexicon-grammar-probabilistic-tagging-written/)**Andrew David Beale*our summary* 22. **[Multi-Level Plurals and Distributivity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1003/)**Remko Scha, David Stallard 23. **[Parsing Japanese Honorifics in Unification-Based Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1017/)**Hiroyuki Maeda, Susumu Kato, Kiyoshi Kogure et al. 24. **[Parsing and Interpreting Comparatives ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1007/)**Manny Rayner, Amelie Banks 25. **[Parsing vs. Text Processing in the Analysis of Dictionary Definitions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P88-1027/)**Thomas Ahlswede, Martha Evens [See all 35 papers in ACL 1988 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1988/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (3) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Discourse Deixis: Reference to Discourse Segments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/webber-1988-discourse-deixis-reference-discourse-segments/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Bonnie Lynn Webber*1988 · 113 citations* 2. **[An Integrated Framework for Semantic and Pragmatic Interpretation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pollack-1988-integrated-framework-semantic-pragmatic-interpretation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Martha E. Pollack, Fernando C.N. Pereira*1988 · 37 citations* 3. [**Lexicon and grammar in probabilistic tagging of written English**Andrew David Beale*1988 · 10 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/beale-1988-lexicon-grammar-probabilistic-tagging-written/) ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Bonnie Webber**1 work here · 113 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-webber/) · [🧑‍🔬**Fernando C.N. Pereira**1 work here · 37 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fernando-c-n-pereira/) · [🧑‍🔬**Martha E. Pollack**1 work here · 37 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-e-pollack/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🔬**SRI International** Menlo Park · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/sri-international/) · [🎓**Lancaster University** Lancaster · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/lancaster-university/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous ACL 1987](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1987/) - [next → ACL 1989](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1989/) - [↑ back to ACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)