This thesis describes new approaches to the formal modeling of narrative discourse.
Although narratives of all kinds are ubiquitous in daily life, contemporary text processing …

Prolog was designed in the 1970s by Alain Colmerauer and a team of researchers with the
idea–new at that time–that it was possible to use logic to represent knowledge and to write …

When the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was held in 1956,
the creation of an intelligent computer seemed to be just around the corner. Since then, the …

Graphics and text have to be well integrated in order to achieve their full potential. A picture
shows but a text describes. In a statistical report, graphics show the data that is analyzed in …

Space and time representation in language is important in linguistics and cognitive science
research, as well as artificial intelligence applications like conversational robots and …

This paper addresses the question of whether Reiter'sConsensus NL Generation
Architecture'Rei94] really exists, and if so whether it is a suitable candidate for areference …

To use graphics efficiently in an automatic report generation system, one has to model
messages and how they go from the writer (intention) to the reader (interpretation). This …

In the past 20 years, natural language processing and computational linguistics have
considerably matured. The move has mainly been driven by the massive increase of textual …

Mes premiers pas universitaires ont eu comme décor l'étude des langages artificiels,
pendant les quatre ans qui m'ont menée à l'obtention d'une maîtrise d'informatique à …

We describe a method for assigning English tense and aspect in a system that realizes
surface text for symbolically encoded narratives. Our testbed is an encoding interface in …