Yorick Wilks

Affiliations:
  • University of Sheffield, England, UK


According to our database1, Yorick Wilks authored at least 186 papers between 1968 and 2023.

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  • Erdős number3 of four.

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2023
SPLAIN: Augmenting Cybersecurity Warnings with Reasons and Data.
CoRR, 2023

2019
Anniversary article: Then and now: 25 years of progress in natural language engineering.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2019

Moral Orthoses: A New Approach to Human and Machine Ethics.
AI Mag., 2019

2018
Cyberattack Prediction Through Public Text Analysis and Mini-Theories.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2018), 2018

2017
Will There Be Superintelligence and Would It Hate Us?
AI Mag., 2017

2016
Target-focused Sentiment and Belief Extraction and Classification using CUBISM.
Proceedings of the 2016 Text Analysis Conference, 2016

2015
A New Dataset and Evaluation for Belief/Factuality.
Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2015

Ambient Personal Environment Experiment (APEX): A Cyber-Human Prosthesis for Mental, Physical and Age-Related Disabilities.
Proceedings of the 2015 AAAI Spring Symposia, 2015

Speech Adaptation in Extended Ambient Intelligence Environments.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

Companion-Based Ambient Robust Intelligence (CARING).
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments, 2015

2014
Faceted search, social networking and interactive semantics.
World Wide Web, 2014

CALONIS: An Artificial Companion Within a Smart Home for the Care of Cognitively Impaired Patients.
Proceedings of the Smart Homes and Health Telematics - 12th International Conference, 2014

VA SmartHome for Veterans with TBI: Implementation in Community Settings.
Proceedings of the Smart Homes and Health Telematics - 12th International Conference, 2014

2012
LIE: Leadership, Influence and Expertise.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

2011
Some background on dialogue management and conversational speech for dialogue systems.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2011

A prototype for a conversational companion for reminiscing about images.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2011

Computational Semantics Requires Computation.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2011

Protocols for Reference Sharing in a Belief Ascription Model of Communication.
Proceedings of the Advances in Cognitive Systems, 2011

2010
Very Large Lexical Entries and the Boundary Between Linguistic and Knowledge Structures.
Proceedings of the A Way with Words, 2010

Demonstration of a Prototype for a Conversational Companion for Reminiscing about Images.
Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010

Key Digital Technologies to Deal with Data.
Proceedings of the World Wide Research - Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities., 2010

2009
Natural Language Processing as a Foundation of the Semantic Web.
Found. Trends Web Sci., 2009

Artificial Companions as Dialogue Agents.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, 2009

CLAROS - Bringing Classical Art to a Global Public.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on e-Science, 2009

The senior companion: a semantic web dialogue system.
Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), 2009

2008
Wordnet as a resource for NLP: Yorick Wilks' reflections on the ontological debate - and how to cope with ambiguity and vagueness of natural language.
Int. J. Speech Technol., 2008

The Semantic Web: Apotheosis of Annotation, but What Are Its Semantics?
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2008

On Whose Shoulders?
Comput. Linguistics, 2008

Dialogue, Speech and Images: the Companions Project Data Set.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

Cross-Domain Dialogue Act Tagging.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

An Unsupervised Probabilistic Approach for the Detection of Outliers in Corpora.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

Information Extraction Tools and Methods for Understanding Dialogue in a Companion.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

The senior companion multiagent dialogue system.
Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), 2008

What would a Wittgensteinian computational linguistics be like.
Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Convention: Communication, 2008

2007
Karen Spärck Jones (1935-2007).
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2007

Clustered Sub-Matrix Singular Value Decomposition.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007

2006
Getting Meaning into the Machine.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2006

An Incremental Tri-Partite Approach To Ontology Learning.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2006

A Closer Look at Skip-gram Modelling.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2006

Evaluating Automatically Generated Timelines from the Web.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2006

2005
Tailoring Automatically Generated Hypertext.
User Model. User Adapt. Interact., 2005

Error Analysis of Dialogue Act Classification.
Proceedings of the Text, Speech and Dialogue, 8th International Conference, 2005

FASiL Adaptive Email Categorization System.
Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2005

2004
On the Ownership of Text.
Comput. Humanit., 2004

Knowledge Representation with Ontologies: The Present and Future.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2004

Multimedia indexing through multi-source and multi-language information extraction: the MUMIS project.
Data Knowl. Eng., 2004

Automatic Report Generation from Ontologies: The MIAKT Approach.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 2004

Artificial Companions.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, 2004

Human Dialogue Modelling Using Annotated Corpora.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

Image-Language Multimodal Corpora: Needs, Lacunae and an AI Synergy for Annotation.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

Web Services Architecture for Language Resources.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

Data Driven Ontology Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

Learning to Harvest Information for the Semantic Web.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 2004

IR and AI: Traditions of Representation and Anti-representation in Information Processing.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2004

Vision-Language Integration in AI: A Reality Check.
Proceedings of the 16th Eureopean Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004

FASIL Email Summarisation System.
Proceedings of the COLING 2004, 2004

2003
Book Review: Jerry Fodor, The Mind Doesn't Work That Way, Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press, 2000, 126 pp., ISBN: 0-262-06212-7.
Minds Mach., 2003

Extracting relational facts for indexing and retrieval of crime-scene photographs.
Knowl. Based Syst., 2003

Intelligent Indexing of Crime Scene Photographs.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2003

Human dialogue modelling using machine learning.
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III, 2003

Intelligent Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval through Multi-source Information Extraction and Merging.
Proceedings of the IJCAI-03, 2003

Integrating Information to Bootstrap Information Extraction from Web Sites.
Proceedings of IJCAI-03 Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb-03), 2003

NLP for Indexing and Retrieval of Captioned Photographs.
Proceedings of the EACL 2003, 2003

Mining Web Sites Using Unsupervised Adaptive Information Extraction.
Proceedings of the EACL 2003, 2003

Using Natural Language Processing for Semantic Indexing of Scene-of-Crime Photographs.
Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2003

Using Adaptive Information Extraction for Effective Human-Centred Document Annotation.
Proceedings of the Text Mining, Theoretical Aspects and Applications, 2003

2002
Architectural elements of language engineering robustness.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2002

What is Lexical Tuning?
J. Semant., 2002

Adaptive information extraction for document annotation in amilcare.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002

Amilcare: adaptive information extraction for document annotation.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002

Access to Multimedia Information through Multisource and Multilanguage Information Extraction.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 2002

User-Centred Ontology Learning for Knowledge Management.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 2002

Extracting Information for Automatic Indexing of Multimedia Material.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2002

How feasible is the reuse of grammars for Named Entity Recognition?.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2002

User-System Cooperation in Document Annotation Based on Information Extraction.
Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web, 2002

Timely and Non-Intrusive Active Document Annotation via Adaptive Information Extraction.
Proceedings of the ECAI 2002 Workshop on Semantic Authoring, Annotation & Knowledge Markup, 2002

Lexical Tuning.
Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2002

METER: MEasuring TExt Reuse.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2002

2001
What's in a symbol: ontology, representation and language.
J. Exp. Theor. Artif. Intell., 2001

The Interaction of Knowledge Sources in Word Sense Disambiguation.
Comput. Linguistics, 2001

Modelling Agent Attitudes in Legal Reasoning.
Comput. Artif. Intell., 2001

Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Management.
Proceedings of the IJCAI'2001 Workshop on Ontology Learning, 2001

Dealing with Dependencies between Content Planning and Surface Realisation in a Pipeline Generation Architecture.
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001

Using HLT for Acquiring, Retrieving and Publishing Knowledge in AKT.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management@ACL 2001, 2001

Multilingual Authoring: the NAMIC Approach.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management@ACL 2001, 2001

2000
Is Word Sense Disambiguation Just One More NLP Task?
Comput. Humanit., 2000

Machine translation.
Adv. Comput., 2000

Software Infrastructure for Language Resources: a Taxonomy of Previous Work and a Requirements Analysis.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2000

1999
Evaluating two methods for Treebank grammar compaction.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 1999

Routing email automatically by purpose not topic.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 1999

Why machines should analyse intention in natural language dialogue.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 1999

Human-Computer Conversation
CoRR, 1999

The "Fodor"-FODOR fallacy bites back
CoRR, 1999

Using a Language Independent Domain Model for Multilingual Information Extraction.
Appl. Artif. Intell., 1999

Can We Make Information Extraction More Adaptive?
Proceedings of the Information Extraction: Towards Scalable, Adaptable Systems, 1999

Combining Weak Knowledge Sources for Sense Disambiguation.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1999

Unsupervised Learning of Word Boundary with Description Length Gain.
Proceedings of the 1999 Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning, 1999

1998
The grammar of sense: Using part-of-speech tags as a first step in semantic disambiguation.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 1998

D. Arnold, L. Balkan, R. Lee Humphries, S. Meijer and L. Sadler. <i>Machine Translation: an Introductory Guide</i>. NCC Blackwell, Oxford, 1994. (Hardback ISBN 1-85554-246-3 $49.95/£40.00; Paperback ISBN 1-85554-217-X $19.95/£18.99) viii+240 pages.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 1998

Information Extraction: Beyond Document Retrieval.
Int. J. Comput. Linguistics Chin. Lang. Process., 1998

Eliminating deceptions and mistaken belief to infer conversational implicature
CoRR, 1998

University of Sheffield: Description of the LaSIE-II System as Used for MUC-7.
Proceedings of the Seventh Message Understanding Conference: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Fairfax, 1998

Uniform language resource access and distribution.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 1998

Sense Tagging and Language Engineering.
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1998

Implementing a Sense Tagger in a General Architecture for Text Engineering.
Proceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 1998

Word Sense Disambiguation using Optimised Combinations of Knowledge Sources.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1998

Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1998

1997
Senses and Texts.
Comput. Humanit., 1997

Sense Tagging: Semantic Tagging with a Lexicon
CoRR, 1997

Information Extraction as a Core Language Technology.
Proceedings of the Information Extraction: A Multidisciplinary Approach to an Emerging Information Technology, 1997

GATE - a General Architecture for Text Engineering.
Proceedings of the 5th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, 1997

Software Infrastructure for Natural Language Processing.
Proceedings of the 5th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, 1997

1996
The Grammar of Sense: Is word-sense tagging much more than part-of-speech tagging?
CoRR, 1996

New Methods, Current Trends and Software Infrastructure for NLP
CoRR, 1996

A General Architecture for Language Engineering (GATE) - a new approach to Language Engineering R&D
CoRR, 1996

Natural Language Processing - Introduction to the Special Section.
Commun. ACM, 1996

The Role of Lexicons in Natural Language Processing.
Commun. ACM, 1996

NEC Corporation and University of Sheffield: "Description of NEC/Sheffleld System Used For MET Japanese".
Proceedings of the TIPSTER TEXT PROGRAM PHASE II: Proceedings of a Workshop held at Vienna, 1996

TIPSTER-Compatible Projects at Sheffield.
Proceedings of the TIPSTER TEXT PROGRAM PHASE II: Proceedings of a Workshop held at Vienna, 1996

GATE: An Environment to Support Research and Development in Natural Language Engineering.
Proceedings of the Eigth International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1996

Evaluation of an Algorithm for the Recognition and Classification of Proper Names.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1996

An ascription-based approach to Speech Acts.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1996

GATE-a General Architecture for Text Engineering.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1996

Panel: The limits of automation: optimists vs skeptics.
Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 1996

1995
Language, Vision and Metaphor.
Artif. Intell. Rev., 1995

University of Sheffield: description of the LaSIE system as used for MUC-6.
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Message Understanding, 1995

1994
Two Types of Adaptive MT Environments.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1994

Noun Phrasal Entries in the EDR English Word Dictionary.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1994

1993
Automatically creating lexical entries for ULTRA, a multilingual MT system.
Mach. Transl., 1993

Book reviews.
Minds Mach., 1993

CRL/BRANDEIS: The Diderot System.
Proceedings of the TIPSTER TEXT PROGRAM: PHASE I: Proceedings of a Workshop held at Fredricksburg, 1993

Diderot: TIPSTER Program, Automatic Data Extraction from Text Utilizing Semantic Analysis.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Plainsboro, 1993

1992
Commentary on Somers' article.
Mach. Transl., 1992

Approaches to natural language discourse processing.
Artif. Intell. Rev., 1992

The Consortium For Lexical Research.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, 1992

Pangloss: A Knowledge-based Machine Assisted Translation Research Project - Site.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, 1992

CRL/NMSU and Brandeis: description of the <i>MucBruce</i> system as used for MUC-4.
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Message Understanding, 1992

CRL/NMSU and Brandeis <i>MucBruce</i>: MUC-4 test results and analysis.
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Message Understanding, 1992

The Automatic Creation of Lexical Entries for a Multilingual MT System.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1992

1991
Beliefs, Stereotypes and Dynamic Agent Modeling.
User Model. User Adapt. Interact., 1991

Belief Ascription, Metaphor, and Intensional Identification.
Cogn. Sci., 1991

Active Knowledge Structures in Natural Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language, 1991

Your Metaphor or Mine: Belief Ascription and Metaphor Interpretation.
Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Sydney, 1991

Subject-Dependent Co-Occurence and Word Sense Disambiguation.
Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1991

1990
Providing machine tractable dictionary tools.
Mach. Transl., 1990

AI and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: a response to Martin Lam.
Knowl. Eng. Rev., 1990

Machine Translation Again?
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Hidden Valley, 1990

PROGRESS REPORT: Active Knowledge Structures in Natural Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Hidden Valley, 1990

Relevant Beliefs.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1990

Is there content in empty heads?
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1990

1989
Belief Ascription and Model Generative Reasoning: joining two paradigms to a robust parser of messages.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Cape Cod, 1989

New Mexico State University Computing Research Laboratory.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Philadelphia, 1989

PREMO: Parsing by Conspicuous Lexical Consumption.
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, 1989

1988
New Mexico State University's Computing Research Laboratory.
AI Mag., 1988

Machine tractable dictionaries as tools and resources for NL prosessing.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1988

Shifting the Belief Engine into Higher Gear.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence III: Methodology, Systems, Applications, 1988

1987
Does AI have a methodology which is different from software engineering?
Artif. Intell. Rev., 1987

On keeping logic in its place.
Proceedings of the Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing 3, 1987

Belief Systems: Ascribing Belief.
Proceedings of the Künstliche Intelligenz, 5. Frühjahrsschule, 1987

Multiple Agents and the Heuristic Ascription of Belief.
Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Milan, 1987

Transfer Semantics in an Operating System Consultant: The Formalization of Actions Involving Object Transfer.
Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Milan, 1987

1986
Default reasoning and self-knowledge.
Proc. IEEE, 1986

1985
Syntax, Preference, and Right Attachment.
Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Los Angeles, 1985

Responsible Computers?
Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Los Angeles, 1985

Right Attachment and Preference Semantics.
Proceedings of the EACL 1985, 1985

1983
Preference Semantics, III-Formedness, and Metaphor.
Am. J. Comput. Linguistics, 1983

Beliefs, Points of View, and Multiple Environments.
Cogn. Sci., 1983

1980
Cognitive science vs. artificial intelligence?: an early Greek fragment of dialogue found on an abandoned disk area.
SIGART Newsl., 1980

1979
A Critical Perspective on KRL.
Cogn. Sci., 1979

Speech Acts and Multiple Environments.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1979

1978
Making Preferences More Active.
Artif. Intell., 1978

Semantic Primitives in Language and Vision.
Proceedings of the Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing-2, 1978

1977
"Semantics: Theories of Meaning in Generative Grammar, " by Janet Dean Fodor (Book Review).
Int. J. Man Mach. Stud., 1977

What Sort of Taxonomy of Causation Do We Need for Language Understanding?
Cogn. Sci., 1977

Knowledge Structures and Language Boundaries.
Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge, 1977

Natural Language Processing.
Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge, 1977

1976
De Minimis, or the Archaeology of Frames.
Proceedings of the Summer Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, Edinburgh, UK, 12th, 1976

1975
An Intelligent Analyzer and Understander of English.
Commun. ACM, 1975

A Preferential, Pattern-Seeking, Semantics for Natural Language Inference.
Artif. Intell., 1975

Methodology in AI and Natural Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing, 1975

Primitives and Words.
Proceedings of the Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing, 1975

1973
Understanding Without Proofs.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Standford, 1973

An Intelligent Analyser and Generator for Natural Language.
Proceedings of the Computational And Mathematical Linguistics: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1973

1969
Interactive Semantic Analysis of English Paragraphs.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1969

1968
On-line semantic analysis of English texts.
Mech. Transl. Comput. Linguistics, 1968


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