Prof

Adjunct Professor
Kathleen Dahlgren

Linguistics, UCLA

Contact Info:

kathleen.dahlgren
@cognition.com

(310) 963-3090

Cognition Technologies, Inc.
1823 Colorado Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Publications:

Book

  1. Dahlgren, Kathleen. Native Semantics for Natural Language Understanding. Kluwer Academic Press. Norwell, Massachusetts, 1988

Journal Articles & Contributions to Books:

  1. and C. Lord. Participant and Event Anaphora in Newspaper articles. In J. Bybee, J. Haiman and S. Thompson (eds.), Essays on Language Function and Language Type Dedicated to T. Givon, John Benjamins, 1997.
  2. Discourse, Coherence and Segmentation. In E. Hovy and D. Scott, eds., Burning Issues in Coherence, Kluwer, 1996.
  3. Convergent Evidence for a Set of Coherence Relations. In D. Stein, ed., Cooperating with Written Texts, Mouton, 1992.
  4. Interpretation of Textual Queries Using a Cognitive Model. In T.W. Lauer, E. Peacock, and A.C. Graesser, eds., Questions and Information Systems, Ehrlbaum, 1992.
  5. J. McDowell and E.P. Stabler. Knowledge Representation for Commonsense Reasoning with Text. Computational Linguistics, 15: 149 170, 1989.
  6. Using Commonsense Knowledge to Disambiguate Word Senses. In F. St. Dizier and V. Dahl eds., Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1987.
  7. The Cognitive Structure of Social Categories. Cognitive Science 9: 379 398, 1985.
  8. Social Terms and Social Reality. Folia Linguistica Historica 6: 107 126, 1985.
  9. The Nature of Linguistic Stereotypes. Papers from Parasession on the Lexicon, Chicago Linguistic Society, April, 1978.
  10. Referential Semantics. In J. Emonds ed., Proposals for Syntactic and Semantic Theory, UCLA, 1976.
  11. The Pragmatics of Presupposition. In G. Bedell ed., UCLA Papers in Syntax #5, UCLA, 1974.
  12. Two Object Verbs in a Montague Grammar. Papers in Montague Grammar, edited by R. Rodman, UCLA, 1972.

Technical Reports:

  1. A survey of Pattern-Matching Approaches to Document Retrieval Compared with a Natural Language Understanding Technique, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, 1994.
  2. Naïve Semantics for Natural Language Understanding, Report No. 1987 2817, IBM Los Angeles Scientific Center, 1987.

Proceedings:

  1. A Linguistic Ontology. Proceedings of International Workshop on Formal Ontology, 1994.
  2. Finding Relevant Texts. Proceedings of AAAI Symposium, 1994.
  3. A Linguistic Ontology. International Workshop on Formal Ontology, Padova, Italy,1993.
  4. The Autonomy of Shallow Lexical Knowledge. In J. Pustejovsky ed., Knowledge Representation and Lexical Semantics, Springer Verlag, 1991.
  5. C. Lord, H. Wada, J. McDowell, and E.P. Stabler Jr. Description of the Interpretext System as Used for MUC-3. Proceedings of the Third Message Understanding Conference (MUC-3), 1991.
  6. Naïve Semantics and Robust Natural Language Processing. Proceedings AAAI Spring Symposium, 1990.
  7. Bases of Coherence. Proceedings Cognitive Science Society: 1055,1990.
  8. Coherence Relation Assignment. Proceedings Cognitive Science Society: 588 596, 1989.
  9. Coherence Relation Assignment. Proceedings Wesr Coast Conference on Linguistics, 1988.
  10. and J. McDowell. Commonsense Reasoning with Verbs. Proceedings IJCAI, 1987.
  11. and J. McDowell. Kind Types in Knowledge Representation. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) 1986.
  12. and J. McDowell. Using Commonsense Knowledge to Disambiguate Prepositional Phrase Modifiers. Proceedings of the 1986 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 86, 1986.

In Preparation:

  1. Goldsmith, E.J., Taylor, R.C., Akella, R. and Kathleen Dahlgren. Natural Language Query in the Molecular Biology Domain on medQuester.