Publications of Leonardo Lesmo on NLP

ON SPEECH

L.Lesmo, M.Mezzalama, P.Torasso: "A Text-to-Speech Translation System for Italian", Int. J. of Man-Machine Studies 10, 1978, 569-591.
R.De Mori, L.Lesmo, S.Poncini: "The Structure of a Lexicon for a Speech Understanding System", Proc. 1979 IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, Washington, 1979, 252-255.

ON ARCHITECTURES FOR NLP

L.Lesmo, P.Torasso: "An Interpreter of Natural Language Queries", in E.Caianiello and G.Musso (eds.), Recognition, Learning and Self Organization, Research Studies Press - John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1984, 233-234.
L.Lesmo, L.Siklossy, P.Torasso: "Semantic and Pragmatic Processing in FIDO, a Flexible Interface for Database Operations", Information Systems 10, 1985, 219-238.
L.Lesmo, P.Torasso: "Weighted Interaction of Syntax and Semantics in Natural Language Analysis", Proc. 9th IJCAI, Los Angeles ,1985, 772-778.
N.Bersia, B.Di Eugenio, L.Lesmo, P.Torasso: "The Overanswering Mechanism in the FIDO system", 823-830, in R.Trappl (ed.), Cybernetics and Systems 86, Reidel Publ. Co., 1986, 823-830.
L.Lesmo, P.Torasso: Description of the FIDO System, S.Grueniger, J.P.Hoepelman, N.Ostler (eds.), Survey and Description of Ongoing Work in NL, Fraunhofer-Institut, 1988, 216-222.
L.Lesmo, P.Terenziani, E.Gerbino: "Management of Uncertainty in the Attachment Problem in Natural Language Processing", in LNCS 521, Springer Verlag, 1991, 469-478.

ON SYNTAX

L.Lesmo, D.Magnani, P.Torasso: "A Deterministic Analyser for the Interpretation of Natural Language Commands", Proc. 7th IJCAI, Vancouver B.C., 1981, 440-442.
L.Lesmo, P.Torasso: "A Flexible Natural Language Parser Based on Two-level Representation of Syntax", Proc. 1st Conf. of European Chapter ACL, Pisa, 1983, 114-121.
L.Lesmo, P.Torasso: "Interpreting Syntactically Ill-formed Sentences", Proc. 10th Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 84), Stanford, 1984, 534-539.
L.Lesmo, P.Torasso: "Analysis of Conjunctions in a Rule Based Parser", Proc. 23rd Annual Meeting of ACL, Chicago, 1985, 180-187.
L.Lesmo, V.Lombardo, P.Terenziani: "Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Comparative Constructions", Proc. 2° Int. Simposium de Inteligencia Artificial, Monterey, Mexico, 1989, 1-25.
L.Lesmo, V.Lombardo: "A Dependency Syntax for the Surface Structure of Sentences", Proc. First World Conf. on the Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence, Paris, 1991, 303-312.
V.Lombardo, L.Lesmo: "The Assignment of Grammatical Relations in Natural Language Processing", Proc. 14h Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 92),1090-1094, Nantes, 1992, 1090-1094.
V.Lombardo, L.Lesmo: "A compact syntactic representation", in C.Martin-Vide (ed.), Current Issues in Mathematical Linguistics, Elsevier Science B.V., 1994, 191-200.
V.Lombardo, L.Lesmo: "An Earley-type Recognizer for Dependency Grammar", COLING 96, Copenhagen, August 1996.
G.Boella, L.Lesmo: "Automatic Refinement of Linguistic Rules for Tagging" (rtf), Proc. 1st Int.l Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation, Granada, 1998, 923-929.
V.Lombardo, L.Lesmo: "Formal Aspects and Parsing Issues in Dependency Theory", Proc. COLING-ACL 98, Montreal, 1998, 787-793.
V.Lombardo, L.Lesmo: "Unit Coordination and Gapping in Dependency Theory", Proc. Workshop on Procesing of Dependency-Based Grammar, Montreal, 1998, 11-20.
C.Barbero, V.Lombardo, L.Lesmo, P.Merlo: "Integration of Syntactic and Lexical Information in a Hierarchical Dependency Grammar", Proc. Workshop on Procesing of Dependency-Based Grammar, Montreal, 1998, 58-67.
V. Lombardo, L. Lesmo: A formal theory of dependency syntax with empty units, Traitment Automatique de la Langue 41, 179-211, Klincksiek, Paris, 2000.

ON LINGUISTIC RESOURCES

C.Bosco, V.Lombardo, D.Vassallo, L.Lesmo: "Building a Treebank for Italian: a Data-driven Annotation Schema", Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000), Athens, 2000, 99-105.
L. Lesmo and V. Lombardo: "Transformed Subcategorization Frames in Chunk Parsing", Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas, 2002, 512-519..
L. Lesmo, V. Lombardo & C. Bosco: "Treebank Development: the TUT Approach", in R.Sangal and S.M.Bendre (eds.): Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Vikas Publ. House, New Delhi, 2002, 61-70.

ON SEMANTICS

B.Di Eugenio, L.Lesmo, P.Pogliano, P.Torasso, F.Urbano: "A Logical Formalism for the Representation of Determiners", Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 86), Bonn, 1986, 344-346.
L.Lesmo, P.Torasso: "Prototypical Knowledge for Interpreting Fuzzy Concepts and Quantifiers", Fuzzy Sets and Systems 23, 1987, 361-370.
B.Di Eugenio, L.Lesmo: "Representation and Interpretation of Determiners in Natural Language", Proc. 10th IJCAI, Milano, 1987, 648-654.
L.Lesmo, P.Terenziani, M.Berti: "A Network Formalism for Representing Natural Language Quantifiers", Proc. ECAI 88, Munich, 1988, 473-478.
L.Lesmo, P.Terenziani: "Interpretation of Noun Phrases in Intensional Contexts", Proc. 12h Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 88), Budapest, 1988, 378-383.
E.Grasso, L.Lesmo, V.Lombardo, P.M.Maccario, R.Salato, P.Terenziani: "Semantic Interpretation of Tense, Actionality and Aspect", Proc. 9th ECAI Stockholm, 1990, 320-325.
L.Ardissono, L.Lesmo, P.Pogliano, P.Terenziani: "Interpretation of Definite Noun Phrases", Proc. 12th IJCAI, Sydney, 1991, 997-1002.
A.Goy, L.Lesmo: "Integrating Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics: The case of Italian Communication Verbs", Proc. of the Second Int.l Workshop on Lexical Semantics", Tilburg, 1997, 81-93.
V.Di Tomaso, V.Lombardo, L.Lesmo: A Computational Model for the Interpretation of Static Locative Expressions". In P.Olivier, K.P.Gapp (eds.): Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998, 73-90.
G.Boella, R.Damiano, L.Lesmo: "Beating a Donkey: a Mental Model Approach to Complex Anaphorical Phenomena", Proc. of European Congress of Cognitive Science (ECCS'99), Pontignano, Italy, 1999.
G.Boella, L.Lesmo: "An Approach to Anaphora based on Mental Models", in P.Bouquet (ed.), CONTEXT'01: Third Int. Conf. on Modeling and Using Context. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
G. Boella, L. Lesmo: "Mental models theory and anaphora". Proc. of Cognitive Science Conference, Fairfax (VA), 2002, 125-130..

ON DIALOGUE

L.Ardissono, L.Lesmo, A.Lombardo, D.Sestero: "Production of Cooperative Answers on the basis of Partial Knowledge in Information-seeking Dialogues", in P.Torasso (ed.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 728, Springer-Verlag, 1993, 254-265.
L.Ardissono, L.Lesmo, D.Sestero: "Updating the User Model on the Basis of the Recognition of the User's Plans", 4th Int.l Conf. on User Modeling, Cape Cod (MA), 1994, 5-10.
L.Ardissono, G.Boella, L.Lesmo: "A Computational Approach to Speech-Acts Recognition", 17th Cognitive Science Conference, Pittsburgh, 1995, 316-321.
L.Ardissono, G.Boella, L.Lesmo: "Recognition of Problem-Solving Plans in Dialogue Interpretation", Proc 5th Int.l Conf. on User Modeling, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, 1996, 195-197.
L.Ardissono, G.Boella, L.Lesmo: "A Plan-based Formalism to Express Knowledge about Actions", Proc. 4th Workshop Modelage, Pontignano (It), 1997, 255-268.
L.Ardissono, G.Boella, L.Lesmo: "The Role of Social Goals in Planning Polite Speech Acts", Workshop on Attitude, Personality and Emotions in User-Adapted Interaction (UM'99 Conference), Banff, 1999, 41-55.
L.Ardissono, G.Boella, L. Lesmo: "Plan Based Agent Architecture for Interpreting Natural Language Dialogue", Int. J. of Human-Computer Studies 52, 2000, 583-636.
G.Boella, R.Damiano, L.Lesmo: "Social Goals in Conversational Cooperation", Proc. of Sigdial Workshop, Honk Kong, 2000.
G.Boella, R.Damiano, M.Danieli, L.Lesmo: "Using XML for Representing Domain Dependent Knowledge in Dialogos", Proc. Int. Conf. on Text, Speech and Dialog (TSD), Zelezna Ruda (CZ), 2001, 381-387.

ON AI, INTENTIONALITY, AND NORMS

G.Boella, R.Damiano, L.Lesmo: "Cooperation and Group Utility", in N.R.Jennings and Y.Lespérance (eds.): Intelligent Agents VI, Proc. of the Sixth Int. Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-99, Orlando FL), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000, 319-333.
G.Boella, L.Lesmo: "Deliberate Normative Agents", Proc. Autonomous Agents 2000 Workshop on Norms and Institutions, Barcelona, 2000.
G.Boella, L.Lesmo: "Socially Rational Agents and Collective Intentionality", Proc. of Seventh International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-01), Donostia (ES), 2001.
G.Boella and L.Lesmo: "Deliberate Normative Agents", In R.Conte and C.Dellarocas (eds.): Social Order in MAS, Kluwer, 2001.
G.Boella, L.Favali, L.Lesmo: "An Action-based Ontology of Legal Relations", Proc. Eighth Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL), St. Louis (MO), 2001, 227-228.
G.Boella, L.Lesmo, L.Favali: "The Definition of Legal Relations in a BDI Multiagent Framework", Proc. of AI*IA 01, Bari, 225-236, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2001, 225-236.
G. Boella, L. Lesmo: "A game theoretic approach to norms". Cognitive Science Quarterly, 2(3-4), 2002, 492-512.