John Dowding

Senior Scientist
Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
Universities Space Research Association
NASA Ames Research Center

Mail Stop T27A-2                                      Phone: (650) 604-0493
NASA Ames Research Center                    Fax:     (650) 604-3957
Moffett Field, CA   94035-1000                 Email: jdowding@mail.arc.nasa.gov

I am a member of the RIALIST group at NASA's Ames Research Center, conducting research in language and speech technologies.  Starting in Fall 2001, I will also be a Visiting Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at Stanford University.

Practical Issues in Compiling Typed Unification Grammars for Speech Recognition, J. Dowding, B.A. Hockey, J.M. Gawron, and C. Culy, in the Proceedings of the 39^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse, France, 2001. (postscript, pdf)

A Baseline Method for Compiling Typed Unification Grammars into Context Free Language Models, M. Rayner, J. Dowding, B.A. Hockey, in the Proceedings of EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark.(postscript, pdf)

Do CFG Language Models Need Agreement Constraints?, M. Rayner, G. Gorell, B.A. Hockey, J. Dowding, and J. Boye, in the Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001.(postscript, pdf)

Building a Robust Dialogue System with Limited Data, S. Goldwater, E. Bratt, J. Gawron, and J. Dowding, Workshop on Conversational Systems at the 1^st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Seattle, WA, 2000.(postscript, pdf)

The CommandTalk Spoken Dialogue System, A. Stent, J. Dowding, M. Gawron, E. Bratt, and R. Moore, in the Proceedings of the 37^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, College Park, MA, 1999(postscript, pdf)

Interpreting Language in Context in CommandTalk, J. Dowding, E. Bratt, and S. Goldwater, Communicative Agents Workshop, Seattle, WA, May 1, 1999.postscript, pdf)

How Natural Inputs Aid Interaction in Graphical Simulations?, by L. Julia, A. Cheyer, J. Dowding, H. Bratt, J. Gawron, E. Bratt, and R. Moore, VSMM `98, Gifu, Japan, 1998.

CommandTalk: A Spoken-Language Interface for Battlefield Simulations, R. Moore, J. Dowding, H. Bratt, J. Gawron, Y. Gorfu, and A. Cheyer, in the Proceedings of the 5^th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Washington, DC, 1997.(postscript, pdf)

HTTP://WWW.SPEECH.SRI.COM/DEMOS/ATS.HTML, L. Julia, A. Cheyer, J. Dowding, and M. Charafeddine, at AAAI `97, Stanford, CA, 1997.

Combining Linguistic and Statistical Knowledge Sources in Natural Language Processing for ATIS, by R. Moore, D. Appelt, J. Dowding, J. Gawron, and D. Moran, in the Proceedings of the ARPA Spoken Language Systems Technology Workshop, Austin, TX, 1995.(postscript, pdf)

The SRI Telephone ATIS System, H. Bratt, J. Dowding, and K. Hunicke-Smith, in the Proceedings of the ARPA Spoken Language Systems Technology Workshop, Austin, TX, 1995.

Interleaving Syntax and Semantics in an Efficient Bottom-Up Parser, J. Dowding, R. Moore, F. Andry, and D. Moran, in the Proceedings of the 32^nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Las Cruces, NM, 1994.(postscript, pdf)

Gemini: A Natural Language System for Spoken Language Understanding, J. Dowding, J. Gawron, D. Appelt, L. Cherny, R. Moore, and D. Moran, in the Proceedings of the 31^st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, OH, 1993.(postscript, pdf)

SRI’s Recent Progress on the ATIS Task, R. Moore, M. Cohen, V. Abrash, D. Appelt, H. Bratt, L. Cherny, J. Dowding, H. Franco, J. Gawron, and D. Moran, in the Proceedings of the ARPA Spoken Language Systems Technology Workshop, Princeton, NJ, 1994.

Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources for the Detection and Correction of Repairs in Human-Computer Dialog, J. Bear, J. Dowding, and E. Shriberg, in the Proceedings of the 30^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Newark, DE, 1992.(postscript, pdf)

Automatic Detection and Correction of Repairs in Human-Computer Dialog, E. Shriberg, J. Bear, and J. Dowding, in the Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, 1992.

Efficient Bottom-Up Parsing, R. Moore and J. Dowding, in Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Language Workshop, 1991.(postscript, pdf)

SRI Speech and Natural Language Evaluation, H. Murveit, D. Appelt, C. Barker, J. Bear, J. Butzberger, J. Dowding, E. Jackson, D. Magerman, R. Moore, D. Moran, A. Podlozny, P. Price, and M. Weintraub, in the Proceedings of the Speech and Language Workshop, Asilomar, CA, 1991.

Restriction Grammar: a Logic Grammar, L. Hirschman and J. Dowding, in Logic and Logic Grammars for Language Processing, ed. S. Szpakowiz and P. Saint-Dizier, Ellis Horword Publishers, 1990.

Reducing Search by Partitioning the Word Network, J. Dowding, in Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language Workshop, 1989.

The PUNDIT Natural Language Processing System, L. Hirschman, M. Palmer, J. Dowding, D. Dahl, M. Linebarger, R. Passonneau, in AI Systems in Government Conference, Computer Society of the IEEE, March, 1989.

A Dynamic Translator for Rule Pruning in Restriction Grammar, J. Dowding and L. Hirschman, in Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming II, Ed. by V. Dahl and P. Saint-Dizier, North-Holland Publishers, 1988.

Recovering Implicit Information, M. Palmer, L. Hirschman, D. Dahl, M. Linebarger, and J. Dowding, in Proceedings of the 24^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, New York, NY, 1986.