Publications

By Date

In Preparation and In Press

• Enlightened update: A computational architecture for presupposition and other pragmatic phenomena. Richmond H. Thomason, Matthew Stone and David DeVault. To appear in Donna Byron, Craige Roberts, and Scott Schwenter, eds., Presupposition Accommodation. Draft paper for Ohio State Pragmatics Initiative, comments welcome.
• Mapping meaning in computation. Matthew Stone. To appear in Paul R. Cohen, editor, Artificial Intelligence: The first hundred years.
• Reproducing natural behaviors in conversational animation. Matthew Stone and Insuk Oh. To appear in Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans, edited by Ipke Wachsmuth and Günter Knoblich, Springer.
• Agents in the real world: Computational models in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Matthew Stone. A revised version of this manuscript will appear in Lepore and Pylyshyn, eds., Cognitive Science, Volume 2, to be published by Blackwell. Comments welcome and appreciated.

2007

• Sentence generation as a planning problem. Alexander Koller and Matthew Stone. To appear in ACL-07: 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference Proceedings, edited by Annie Zaenen and Antal van den Bosch.
• Managing ambiguities across utterances in dialogue. David DeVault and Matthew Stone. To appear in DECALOG: The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, edited by Ron Artstein and Laure Vieu.
• Logic and semantic analysis. Ernest Lepore and Matthew Stone. In Handbook of the Philosophy of Logic, edited by Dale Jacquette, Elsevier, pages 173-204.
• Understanding RUTH: Creating believable behaviors for a virtual human under uncertainty. Insuk Oh and Matthew Stone. In HCI International 2007: 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.

2006

• Societal grounding is essential to meaningful language use. David DeVault, Iris Oved and Matthew Stone. Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2006.
• Is semantics computational? Mark Steedman and Matthew Stone. Theoretical Linguistics 32(1):73-89, 2006. Preprint version.
• Understanding student input for tuturial dialogue in procedural domains. Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Charles B. Callaway, Matthew Stone and Johanna D. Moore. BRANDIAL 06: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, edited by David Schlangen and Raquel Fernandez, pages 10-17.
• Formal semantics of iconic gesture. Alex Lascarides and Matthew Stone. BRANDIAL 06: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, edited by David Schlangen and Raquel Fernandez, pages 64-71.
• Scorekeeping in an uncertain language game. David DeVault and Matthew Stone. BRANDIAL 06: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, edited by David Schlangen and Raquel Fernandez, pages 139-146.

2005

• AI—The next 25 years. Matthew Stone and Haym Hirsh. AI Magazine, 26(4):85-97, Winter 2005.
• Disjunction and modular goal-directed proof search. Matthew Stone. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, 6(3):539-577. Preprint version of paper body and electronic appendix. An earlier version was distributed on arxiv.org, 2002.
• An information-state approach to collaborative reference. David DeVault, Natalia Kariaeva, Anubha Kothari, Iris Oved, and Matthew Stone. ACL 2005 Proceedings Companion Volume. Interactive Poster and Demo Track, pages 1--4. Preprint version.

2004

• Intention, interpretation and the computational structure of language. Matthew Stone. Cognitive Science 28(5):781-809, 2004. Preprint version.
• Speaking with hands: Creating Animated Conversational Characters from Recordings of Human Performance, Matthew Stone, Doug DeCarlo, Insuk Oh, Christian Rodriguez, Adrian Stere, Alyssa Lees, and Chris Bregler. ACM Transactions on Graphics 23(3):506-513, (SIGGRAPH), 2004. Preprint version.
• Interpreting vague utterances in context, David DeVault and Matthew Stone. Proceedings of COLING, pages 1247-1253, 2004. Preprint version.
• Specifying and animating facial signals for discourse in embodied conversational agents. Doug DeCarlo, Matthew Stone, Corey Revilla and Jennifer J. Venditti. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 15:1, pages 27-38, 2004. Preprint version.
• Communicative intentions and conversational processes in human-human and human-computer dialogue. Matthew Stone. In Trueswell and Tanenhaus, eds., Approaches to Studying World-Situated Language Use, MIT Press, pages 39-70, 2004.

2003

• Anaphora and discourse structure. Bonnie Webber, Matthew Stone, Aravind Joshi and Alistair Knott. Computational Linguistics, 29:4, pages 545-588, 2003. Preprint version. An earlier version was distributed on arxiv.org, 2001.
• Microplanning with communicative intentions: the SPUD system. Matthew Stone, Christine Doran, Bonnie Webber, Tonia Bleam and Martha Palmer. Computational Intelligence 19:4, pages 311-381, 2003. Preprint version.
• Crafting the illusion of meaning: Template-based generation of embodied conversational behavior. Matthew Stone and Doug DeCarlo. In Computer Animation and Social Agents. Pages 11-16. Rutgers, May 2003.
• On-line accented pronoun interpretation in discourse context Jennifer J. Venditti, John Trueswell, Matthew Stone and Katherine Nautiyal. Talk presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. MIT, March 2003.
• Knowledge representation for language engineering. Matthew Stone. In Farghaly, ed., Handbook for Language Engineers, CSLI Publications, 2003, pages 299-366.
• Domain Inference in Incremental Interpretation. David DeVault and Matthew Stone. ICOS 4: Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics. INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France, September, 2003.
• Coordinating Understanding and Generation in an Abductive Approach to Interpretation. Matthew Stone and Richmond H. Thomason. DIABRUCK 2003: 7th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. The University of the Saarland, September, 2003.
• Ontology and Description in Computational Semantics: Models and Processes. Matthew Stone. Representation and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems: Proceedings of the IJCAI 2003 Workshop. Acapulco, August 2003.
• Specifying Generation of Referring Expressions by Example. Matthew Stone. AAAI Spring Symposium: Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue. Pages 133-140. Stanford, March 2003.
• Linguistic Representation and Gricean Inference. Matthew Stone. IWCS-5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Semantics. University of Tilburg, January, 2003, pages 5-21.

2002

• Making discourse visible: coding and animating conversational facial displays. Douglas DeCarlo, Corey Revilla, Matthew Stone and Jennifer J. Venditti. Computer Animation 2002, pages 11-16.
• Discourse constraints on the interpretation of nuclear-accented pronouns. Jennifer J. Venditti, Matthew Stone, Preetham Nanda and Paul Tepper. Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Speech Prosody.
• Context in Abductive Interpretation. Matthew Stone and Richmond H. Thomason. EDILOG 2002: 6th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. The University of Edinburgh, September, 2002.
• Lexicalized Grammar 101. Matthew Stone. ACL Workshop on Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing. Philadelphia, July, 2002.

2001

• Representing Communicative Intentions in Collaborative Conversational Agents. Matthew Stone. AAAI Fall Symposium on Intent Inference for Collaborative Tasks. Cape Cod, November, 2001.

2000

• Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and Inference in Instructions. Matthew Stone. Journal of Language and Computation 1(2), 2000, pages 231-246.
• On identifying sets. Matthew Stone. INLG 2000, 116-123.
• Coordination and context-dependence in the generation of embodied conversation. Justine Cassell, Matthew Stone and Hao Yan. INLG 2000, pages 171-178.
• Lexicalized Grammar and the Description of Motion Events. Matthew Stone, Tonia Bleam, Christine Doran and Martha Palmer. Fifth International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms. Paris, France, May 2000.

1999

• Representing Scope in Intuitionistic Deductions. Matthew Stone. Theoretical Computer Science 211(1-2), 1999, pages 129-188. Preprint version.
• Dynamic Discourse Referents for Tense and Modals. Matthew Stone and Daniel Hardt. IWCS 2, 1997, pages 287--299. In Bunt and Muskens, eds, Computing Meaning, Kluwer, 1999, pages 302--321.
• Discourse Relations: A Structural and Presuppositional Account Using Lexicalised TAG. Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone and Aravind Joshi. ACL 1999, pages 41-48.
• Living Hand to Mouth: Psychological Theories about Speech and Gesture in Interactive Dialogue Systems. Justine Cassell and Matthew Stone. AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication in Collaborative Systems. Susan Brennan, Alain Giboin and David Traum, eds. North Falmouth, Mass, November 1999.
• Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and Inference in Instructions (Extended Notes). Matthew Stone. Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics. (Invited Contribution.) ILLC, Amsterdam, August 1999. Christof Monz and Maarten de Rijke, eds.
• Describing Sets with Covers and Sets of Ordinary Assignments. Matthew Stone. ESSLLI 1999 Workshop on the Generation of Nominal Expressions. Rodger Kibble and Kees van Deemter, eds.

1998

• Modality in Dialogue: Planning, Pragmatics and Computation. Matthew Stone. PhD Thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1998.
• Abductive Planning with Sensing. Matthew Stone. AAAI 1998, pages 631--636.
• Textual Economy through Close Coupling of Syntax and Semantics. Matthew Stone and Bonnie Webber. Proceedings of INLG 1998, pages 178--187.

1997

• Sentence Planning as Description Using Tree-Adjoining Grammar. Matthew Stone and Christine Doran. ACL 1997, pages 198--205.
• Can you predict answers to Y/N questions? Yes, No and Stuff. D. Rossen-Knill, B. Hockey, B. Spejewski, M. Stone, and S. Isard. Eurospeech 1997.
• Partial-order Reasoning for a Nonmonotonic Logic of Action. Matthew Stone. AAAI 1997 Workshop on Robots, Softbots and Immobots.
• Applying Theories of Communicative Action in Generation Using Logic Programming. Matthew Stone. AAAI 1997 Fall Symposium On Communicative Action in Humans and Machines.

1996 and before

• Paying Heed to Collocations. Matthew Stone and Christine Doran. Proceedings of INLG 1996, pages 91--100.
• Animated Conversation: Rule-based generation of facial expression, gesture and spoken intonation for multiple conversational agents. Justine Cassell, Catherine Pelachaud, Norm Badler, Mark Steedman, Brett Achorn, Tripp Becket, Brett Douville, Scott Prevost, and Matthew Stone. SIGGRAPH 1994, pages 413--420.
• Modeling the interaction between speech and gesture. Justine Cassell, Matthew Stone, Brett Douville, Scott Prevost, Brett Achorn, Mark Steedman, Norm Badler and Catherine Pelachaud. Cognitive Science Society 1994. (Link to submitted version.)
• The Reference Argument of Epistemic Must. Matthew Stone. Proceedings of IWCS 1, 1994, pages 181--190.
• Or and Anaphora. Matthew Stone. SALT 2, 1992, pages 367--385.

In Progress - Technical Reports

• Toward an account of accented pronouns in discourse: Evidence from eye-tracking. Jennifer J. Venditti, Matthew Stone, Preetham Nanda and Paul Tepper. Distributed as RuCCS TR 68, 2001. Comments welcome and appreciated.
• Reference to possible worlds. Matthew Stone. Distributed as RuCCS TR 49, 1999.
  • Substantially replaces The anaphoric parallel between modality and tense. Matthew Stone. Distributed as IRCS TR 97-06, University of Pennsylvania, 1997.
• First-order multi-modal deduction. Matthew Stone. RuCCS TR 55, 1999.
• Efficient tree construction for reasoning about necessity. Matthew Stone. Distributed as IRCS TR 97-07, University of Pennsylvania, 1997.