Douglas E. Appelt
Senior Computer Scientist

Douglas E. Appelt, EK284
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Internet: appelt@ai.sri.com
Phone: 650/859-6150
Fax: 650/859-3735

Research Areas

• Information Extraction from Text
• Language Generation
• Dialog Systems

Projects

• TIPSTER Text Processing (DARPA - HLS program)
• Message Handler (DARPA - DMIF program)

Software Systems

• FASTUS
• Warbreaker Message Handler
• SRI ATIS Speech Understanding System

Professional Activities

• Association for Computational Linguistics (Vice President 1994, President 1995)
• Editorial Board, Computational Intelligence

Academic Background

• B.S. with High Honors in Computer Science, Michigan State University (1975)
• M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University, (1979)
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University, (1981)

Research-Related Information

• Tutorial on information extraction (Given at ANLP-97, Washington, D.C.)
• TextPro is an information extraction system for PowerPC Macintosh that I'm developing in my spare time. You can get a free copy.

Representative Publications

• Hobbs, Appelt, Bear, Israel, Kameyama, Stickel and Tyson, FASTUS: A Cascaded Finite-State Transducer for Extracting Information from Natural-Language Text, in Roche and Schabes, eds., Finite State Devices for Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1996.
• Dowding, Gawron, Appelt, Bear, Cherny, Moore, and Moran, GEMINI: A Natural Language System for Spoken-Language Understanding, Proc. of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1993)
• Hobbs, Appelt, Bear, and Tyson, Robust Processing of Real-World Natural-Language Texts, Proc. of the 3rd ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, (1992)
• Appelt and Pollack, Weighted Abduction for Plan Ascription, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, Vol 1, No. 2 (1992)
• Appelt and Konolige, A Practical Nonmonotonic Theory for Reasoning about Speech Acts, Proc. of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1988)
• Grosz, Appelt, Martin, and Pereira, TEAM: An Experiment in the Design of Transportable Natural Language Interfaces,Artificial Intelligence, vol. 32 (1987)
• Appelt, Planning English Sentences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England (1985)
• Appelt, Planning English Referring Expressions, Artificial Intelligence, vol. 26 (1985)

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