--- title: "TINLAP 1987 — all accepted papers — the most cited first" description: "All 46 papers of TINLAP 1987, the most cited first; those with our summary link to it. Among them: A Framework for a Theory of Meaning ↗." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/papers/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/papers/) [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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/) / papers # TINLAP 1987: all accepted papers 46 papers · the most cited first · [← TINLAP 1987](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/) 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 26. **[Possible Implications of Connectionism ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1017/)**Wendy G. Lehnert 27. **[Program for Tinlap3 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1002/)** 28. **[Reference and Pragmatic Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1031/)**Douglas E. Appelt 29. **[Reference and Reference Failures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1035/)**Bradley A. Goodman 30. **[The Boundary Between Word Knowledge and World Knowledge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1007/)**Judy Kegl 31. **[The Definitional Power of Words ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1004/)**Branimir K. Boguraev 32. **[The Linguistic Connection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1012/)**Martin Kay 33. **[The Panels ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1003/)** 34. **[The Rate of Progress in Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1024/)**Norman K. Sondheimer 35. **[The Role of Metaphors in Descriptions of Emotions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1037/)**Andrew Ortony, Lynn Fainsilber 36. **[They say it's a new sort of engine: but the SUMP's still there ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1029/)**Karen Sparck Jones 37. **[Tinlap3 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1001/)** 38. **[Toward Connectionist Semantics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1014/)**Garrison W. Cottrell 39. **[Towards a Semantic Theory of Discourse ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1020/)**C. Raymond Perrault 40. **[Unification and Some New Grammatical Formalisms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1011/)**Aravind K. Joshi 41. **[Unification and the new grammatism ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1010/)**Steve Pulman 42. **[What is Special About Natural Language Generation Research? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1045/)**William C. Mann 43. **[Whither Discourse and Speech Acts?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/grosz-1987-whither-discourse-speech-acts/)**Barbara J. Grosz*our summary* 44. **[Words and Worlds ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1005/)**Robert A. Amsler 45. **[World Knowledge and Word Meaning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1006/)**Jerry R. Hobbs 46. **[“No Better, but no Worse, than People” ↗](https://aclanthology.org/T87-1044/)**David D. McDonald - [← back to](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tinlap/1987/) — TINLAP 1987