--- title: "TINLAP 1987 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "TINLAP 1987 — accepted papers: 2 papers in the Elamur Research library, with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [TINLAP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/) / 1987 # TINLAP 1987 — accepted papers TINLAP 1987 is the 1987 edition of the Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing (TINLAP). The ACL Anthology lists 46 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. [**46** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/#works) · [**59** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/#works) ## All accepted papers (46) The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Framework for a Theory of Meaning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1021/)**Robert Wilensky 2. **[A Situated Perspective on Natural-Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1030/)**Susan U. Stucky 3. **[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/)**Douglas E. Appelt*our summary* 4. **[COMIT ==\ensuremath> PATR II ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1009/)**Gerald Gazdar 5. **[Connectionism and Explanation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1015/)**Eugene Charniak 6. **[Connectionist Models: Not Just a Notational Variant Not a Panacea ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1013/)**David L. Waltz 7. **[Determiners, Entities, and Contexts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1032/)**Deborah A. Dahl 8. **[Discourse Representation Theory and the Semantics of Natural Languages: Contribution to a Panel on “Discourse Theory and Speech Acts” TINLAP3 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1022/)**F. Guenthner 9. **[Generation - A New Frontier of Natural Language Processing? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1041/)**Aravind K. Joshi 10. **[Generation Systems Should Choose Their Words ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1046/)**Mitchell Marcus 11. **[Goals of Referring Acts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1034/)**Amichai Kronfeld 12. **[Information, Unification and Locality ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1008/)**Fernando C. N. Pereira 13. **[Let's Put the AI Back in NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1025/)**Lawrence Birnbaum 14. **[Limits on the human sentence generator ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1043/)**Anthony S. Kroch 15. **[Mental Models and Metaphor ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1038/)**Edwin Plantin 16. **[Metaphor: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1036/)**Dedre Gentner, Brian Falkenhainer, Janice Skorstad 17. **[NO TITLE ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1019/)**Julia Hirschberg 18. **[Natural Language Processing: What's Really Involved? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1023/)**Roger Schank, Alex Kass 19. **[On Formal Versus Commonsense Semantics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1028/)**David Israel 20. **[On keeping logic in its place ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1026/)**Yorick Wilks 21. **[Parallel Distributed Processing and Role Assignment Constraints ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1016/)**James L. McClelland 22. **[Poetic and Prosaic Metaphors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1040/)**Geoffrey Nunberg 23. **[Position Paper on Common-sense and Formal Semantics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1027/)**Geoffrey Nunberg 24. **[Position Paper on Metaphor ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1039/)**George Lakoff 25. **[Position Paper: Event Reference ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1033/)**Bonnie Lynn Webber [See all 46 papers in TINLAP 1987 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (2) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 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/) [Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing (TINLAP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/)**Douglas E. Appelt*1987 · 59 citations* 2. **[Whither Discourse and Speech Acts?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/grosz-1987-whither-discourse-speech-acts/) [Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing (TINLAP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/)**Barbara J. Grosz*1987* ## 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/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (1)](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. [🧑‍🔬**Douglas Appelt**1 work here · 59 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douglas-appelt/) · [🧑‍🔬**Barbara J. Grosz**1 work here](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/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous TINLAP 1978](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1978/) - [↑ back to TINLAP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/)