We are working toward animated agents that can collaborate with human students in virtual
worlds. The agent's objective is to help students learn to perform physical, procedural tasks …

This tutorial provides a comprehensive and in-depth view of the research on procedures,
primarily in Natural Language Processing. A procedure is a sequence of steps intended to …

Current computer graphics hardware and software make it possible to synthesize near photo-
realistic images, but the simulation of natural-looking motion of articulated figures remains a …

What role should evaluation play in the development of natural language generation (nlg)
techniques and systems? In this paper we describe what is involved in natural language …

This paper puts forward the suggestion that many PROLOG programs are not radically
different in kind from programs written in conventional languages. For these programs, it …

1 Cette introduction pose les balises de cet ouvrage. Elle propose une première définition
du traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TAL)(1.2), expose ses raisons (1.3) et …

Intelligent systems are often called upon to form plans that direct their own or other agents'
activities. For these systems, the ability to describe plans to people in natural ways is an …

Natural language provides an extensive set of lexical and grammatical forms for expressing
concepts, a set from which writers choose the particular form that they feel will produce the …

This paper identifies a major problem in planning discourse, and then points to a solution.
The problem is that of the relationship between models for monologue and dialogue …

Page 1 A Functional Perspective on Language, Action, and Interpretation Page 2 Natural
Language Processing 1 Editorial Board Hans-Jürgen Eikmeyer Maurice Gross Walter von Hahn …