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# Computational Linguistics 1978 — papers

The works of Computational Linguistics published in 1978 that our library holds (publisher: The MIT Press): 3 works, listed below with the most cited first; each has a page with our summary, its key points and its references.

[**59** works that year](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1978/#works) · [**131** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1978/#works)

## All works of the year (59)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Computational Account of Some Constraints on Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3042/)**Mitchell Marcus
2. **[A Critical Look at a Formal Model for Stratificational Linguistics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3005/)**Alexander T. Borgida
3. **[A Framework for Comparing Language Experiences (with particular emphasis on: The Effect of Audience on Discourse Models) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3025/)**Andee Rubin
4. **[A Heuristic for Paradigms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3041/)**Joseph E. Grimes
5. **[A Lexicon for a Computer Question-Answering System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-4006/)**Martha W Evens, Raoul N Smith
6. **[A Model for Knowledge and its Application to Discourse Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-4005/)**Brian Phillips
7. **[A Note on Partial Match of Descriptions. Can One Simultaneously Question (Retrieve) and Inform (Update)? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3034/)**Aravind K. Joshi
8. **[An Argument about the Composition of Conceptual Structure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3029/)**Ray Jackendoff
9. **[Assent and Compliance in Children's Language Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3023/)**David R. Olson
10. **[Bound Variables and Other Anaphors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3017/)**Barbara H. Partee
11. **[Computation in Departments of Linguistics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-2004/)**Richard Fritzson
12. **[Description Formation and Discourse Model Synthesis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3012/)**Bonnie Lynn Webber
13. **[Focusing in Dialog](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/grosz-1978-focusing-dialog/)**Barbara J. Grosz*our summary*
14. **[Fragments of a Theory of Human Plausible Reasoning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3036/)**Allan Collins
15. **[Glancing, Referring and Explaining in the Dialogue System HAM-RPM ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3004/)**W. Wahlster, A. Jameson, W. Hoeppner
16. **[Indirect Responses to Loaded Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kaplan-1978-indirect-responses-loaded-questions/)**S. Jerrold Kaplan*our summary*
17. **[Inference and Theory: Papers presented in two sessions of TINLAP-2 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3033/)**
18. **[Intentlonallty and Human Conversations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3026/)**Jaime G. Carbonell Jr
19. **[Language Representation: Papers presented in two sessions of TINLAP-2 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3006/)**
20. **[Language Representation: Papers presented in two sessions of TINLAP-2 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3019/)**
21. **[List of questions suggested for consideration in each session ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3044/)**
22. **[Models of the Semantic Structure of Dictionaries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-4003/)**Kenneth C. Litkowski
23. **[On Reasoning by Default ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3038/)**Raymond Reiter
24. **[On primitives, prototypes, and other semantic anomalies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3010/)**Terry Winograd
25. **[On the Interdependence of Language and Perception ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3027/)**David L. Waltz

[See all 59 papers in Computational Linguistics 1978 — papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1978/papers/)

## Works with our summary in our library (3)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Speech Acts as a Basis for Understanding Dialogue Coherence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/perrault-1978-speech-acts-as-basis-understanding-j78-3024/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**C. Raymond Perrault, James F. Allen, Philip R. Cohen*1978 · 63 citations*
2. **[Focusing in Dialog](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/grosz-1978-focusing-dialog/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Barbara J. Grosz*1978 · 40 citations*
3. **[Indirect Responses to Loaded Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kaplan-1978-indirect-responses-loaded-questions/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**S. Jerrold Kaplan*1978 · 28 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Dialogue systems (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/)

## 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.

[🧑‍🔬**C. Raymond Perrault**1 work here · 63 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/c-raymond-perrault/) · [🧑‍🔬**James F. Allen**1 work here · 63 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-f-allen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Philip R. Cohen**1 work here · 63 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philip-r-cohen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Barbara J. Grosz**1 work here · 40 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-j-grosz/)

## 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/) · [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/)

works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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