David D. McDonald

MIT, BBN, SIFT

Also published as: David McDonald

Other people with similar names: David W. McDonald (Univ. of Washington)


2014

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Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)
Margaret Mitchell | Kathleen McCoy | David McDonald | Aoife Cahill
Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)

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Proceedings of the INLG and SIGDIAL 2014 Joint Session
Margaret Mitchell | Kathleen McCoy | David McDonald | Aoife Cahill
Proceedings of the INLG and SIGDIAL 2014 Joint Session

2011

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Improving the Accessibility of Line Graphs in Multimodal Documents
Charles F. Greenbacker | Peng Wu | Sandra Carberry | Kathleen F. McCoy | Stephanie Elzer | David D. McDonald | Daniel Chester | Seniz Demir
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

2010

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‘If you’ve heard it, you can say it’ - Towards an Account of Expressibility
David D. McDonald | Charlie Greenbacker
Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference

2008

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Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Michael White | Crystal Nakatsu | David McDonald
Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference

2000

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Partially Saturated Referents as a Source of Complexity in Semantic Interpretation
David D. McDonald
NAACL-ANLP 2000 Workshop: Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in Natural Language Processing Systems

1998

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Controlled Realization of Complex Objects
David D. McDonald
Natural Language Generation

1994

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The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language
David D. McDonald
The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language

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On the Creative Use of Language: The Form of Lexical Resources
David D. McDonald | Federica Busa
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation

1993

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Issues in the choice of a source for Natural Language Generation
David D. McDonald
Computational Linguistics, Volume 19, Number 1, March 1993, Special Issue on Using Large Corpora: I

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The Interplay of Syntactic and Semantic Node Labels in Partial Parsing
David D. McDonald
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parsing Technologies

Our natural language comprehension system, “Sparser” , uses a semantic grammar in conjunction with a domain model that defines the categories and already-known individuals that can be expected in the sublanguages we are studying, the most significant of which to date has been articles from the Wall Street Journal’s “Who’s News” column. In this paper we describe the systematic use of default syntactic rules in this grammar: an alternative set of labels on consitutents that are used to capture generalities in the semantic interpretation of constructions like the verbal auxiliaries or many adverbials. Syntactic rules form the basis of a set of schemas in a Tree Adjoining Grammar that are used as templates from which to create the primary, semantically labeled rules of the grammar as part of defining the categories in the domain models. This design permits the semantic grammar to be developed on a linguistically principled basis since all the rules must conform to syntactically sound patterns.

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Internal and External Evidence in the Identification and Semantic Categorization of Proper Names
David McDonald
Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from Text

1992

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An Efficient Chart-based Algorithm for Partial-Parsing of Unrestricted Texts
David D. McDonald
Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing

1991

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Reversible NLP by Deriving the Grammars From the Knowledge Base
David D. McDonald
Reversible Grammar in Natural Language Processing

1990

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Implications of Tree Adjoining Grammar for Natural Language Generation
David McDonald | Mary Meteer
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+1)

1988

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Directing the Generation of Living Space Descriptions
Penelope Sibun | Alison K. Huettner | David D. McDonald
Coling Budapest 1988 Volume 2: International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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From Water to Wine: Generating Natural Language Text From Today’s Applications Programs
David D. McDonald | Marie W. Meteer
Second Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing

1987

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“No Better, but no Worse, than People”
David D. McDonald
Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing 3

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Constraints on the Generation of Adjunct Clauses
Alison K. Huettner | Marie M. Vaughan | David D. McDonald
25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1986

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The Counselor Project at the University of Massachusetts
David D. McDonald | James D. Pustejowky
Strategic Computing - Natural Language Workshop: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Marina del Rey, California, May 1-2, 1986

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Multi-Level Description Directed Generation
David D. McDonald
Strategic Computing - Natural Language Workshop: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Marina del Rey, California, May 1-2, 1986

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TAG’s as a Grammatical Formalism for Generation
David D. McDonald | James D. Pustejovsky
Strategic Computing - Natural Language Workshop: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Marina del Rey, California, May 1-2, 1986

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A Model of Revision in Natural Language Generation
Marie M. Vaughan | David D. McDonald
24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1985

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A Computational Theory of Prose Style for Natural Language Generation
David D. McDonald | James D. Pustejovsky
Second Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Recovering the Speaker’s Decisions during Mechanical Translation
David D. McDonald
Proceedings of the first Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages

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TAG’s as a Grammatical Formalism for Generation
David D. McDonald | James D. Pustejovsky
23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1984

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Conveying Implicit Content in Narrative Summaries
Malcolm E. Cook | Wendy G. Lehnert | David D. McDonald
10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1982

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Salience: The Key to the Selection Problem in Natural Language Generation
E. Jeffrey Conklin | David D. McDonald
20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1981

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Language Production: the Source of the Dictionary
David D. McDonald
19th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1980

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A Linear-time Model of Language Production: some psychological implications (extended abstract)
David D. McDonald
18th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1978

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Subsequent Reference: Syntactic and Rhetorical Considerations
David D. McDonald
American Journal of Computational Linguistics (December 1978)

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Subsequent Reference: Syntactic and Rhetorical Constraints
David D. McDonald
Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing-2

1975

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A Framework for Writing Generation Grammars for Interactive Computer Programs
David McDonald
American Journal of Computational Linguistics (November 1975)