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# Computational Linguistics 1978: all accepted papers

59 papers · the most cited first · [← Computational Linguistics 1978](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1978/)

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
26. **[On the Ontological Status of Visual Mental Images ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3030/)**Stephen Michael Kosslyn
27. **[One More Step Toward Computer Lexicometry ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-2003/)**Nicholas V. Findler, Shu-Hwa Lee
28. **[Path-Based and Node-Based Inference in Semantic Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3039/)**Stuart C. Shapiro
29. **[Properties of Lexical Relations Appendix II of “A Lexicon for a Computer Question-Answering System,” AJCL Microfiche 83 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-4002/)**Martha W. Evens, Raoul N. Smith
30. **[Reference Diaries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3014/)**Herbert H. Clark, Catherine Marshall
31. **[Remarks on Processing, Constraints, and the Lexicon ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3043/)**Thomas Wasow
32. **[Review: \textit Abhangigkeitsgrammatik, by Jurgen Kunze ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3003/)**Kenneth F. Ballin
33. **[Review: \textit On Human Communication: A Review, a Survey, and a Criticism 3rd ed., by Colin Cherry ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3002/)**William L. Benzon
34. **[Semantic Primitives in Language and Vision ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3032/)**Yorick Wilks
35. **[Some Psycholinguistic Constraints on the Construction and Interpretation of Definite Descriptions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3016/)**Andrew Ortony
36. **[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/)**C. Raymond Perrault, James F. Allen, Philip R. Cohen*our summary*
37. **[Subsequent Reference: Syntactic and Rhetorical Considerations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3015/)**David D. McDonald
38. **[Taxonomic Lattice Structures for Situation Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3011/)**William A. Woods
39. **[Testing the Psychological Reality of a Representation Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3007/)**Dedre Gentner
40. **[The Derivation of Answers from Logical Forms in a Question Answering System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-2002/)**Fred J. Damerau
41. **[The FINITE STRING, Volume 15, Number 1 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-1001/)**
42. **[The FINITE STRING, Volume 15, Number 2 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-2001/)**
43. **[The FINITE STRING, Volume 15, Number 2 (continued) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-2005/)**
44. **[The FINITE STRING, Volume 15, Number 3 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-2006/)**
45. **[The FINITE STRING, Volume 15, Number 4 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3001/)**
46. **[The FINITE STRING, Volume 15, Number 5 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-4001/)**
47. **[The FINITE STRING, Volume 15, Number 5 (continued) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-4004/)**
48. **[The Problem of Naming Shapes: Vision-Language Interface ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3028/)**R. Bajcsy, A. K. Joshi
49. **[The Processing of Referring Expressions within a Semantic Network ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3013/)**John R. Anderson
50. **[The Relation of Grammar to Cognition–a Synopsis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3009/)**Leonard Talmy
51. **[The Representation of Derivable Information in Memory: When What Might Have Been Left Unsaid Is Said ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3040/)**Rand J. Spiro, Joseph Esposito, Richard J. Vondruska
52. **[The TARGET Project's Interactive Computerized Multilingual Dictionary ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-2007/)**John Burge
53. **[The Use of Focus as a Tool for Disambiguation of Definite Noun Phrases ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3018/)**Candace L. Sidner
54. **[Topic Levels ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3021/)**Joseph E. Grimes
55. **[Toward a Rational Model of Discourse Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3022/)**Jerry L. Morgan
56. **[Two Papers on Semantic Interpretation in Montague Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-1002/)**Joyce Friedman, Douglas B. Moran, David S. Warren
57. **[What Makes Something “Ad Hoc” ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3008/)**Roger C. Schank
58. **[What has language to do with perception? Some speculations on the \textitLingua Mentis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3031/)**Zenon W. Pylyshyn
59. **[With a Spoon in Hand This Must Be the Eating Frame ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J78-3035/)**Eugene Charniak
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