Peter Clark - List of Publications

If you unable to download or print a paper, and would like a hard-copy, email me (peter.e.clark@boeing.com) with your postal address and I'll be happy to send a copy to you. There is also a collection of informal, unpublished working notes available, and some additional presentations on general ideas.

Natural Language Understanding

Using and Extending WordNet to Support Question-Answering

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P. Clark, J. Chaw, K. Barker, V. Chaudhri, P. Harrison, J. Fan, B. John, B. Porter, A. Spaulding, J. Thompson, P. Yeh. Capturing and Answering Questions Posed to a Knowledge-Based System. In: Proc 4th Int Conf on Knowledge Capture (KCap'07), 2007. (Abstract, PDF, slide presentation (PowerPoint)).
C. Fellbaum, A. Osherson, P. Clark. Putting Semantics into WordNet's "Morphosemantic" Links In: Proc 3rd Language & Technology Conference (LTC'07), Poznan, Poland, 2007. (Abstract, PDF)
P. Clark, W. R. Murray, J. Thompson, P. Harrison, J. Hobbs, C. Fellbaum On the Role of Lexical and World Knowledge in RTE3 In: Proc. 2007 ACL-PASCAL Workshop of Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, 2007. (Abstract, PDF)
P. Clark, P. Harrison, J. Thompson, R. Wojcik, T. Jenkins, D. Israel. Reading to Learn: An Investigation into Language Understanding. In: Proc AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium on Machine Reading, 2007. (Abstract, PDF, and slide presentation (PowerPoint)).
P. Clark, P. Harrison, T. Jenkins, J. Thompson, R. Wojcik. From WordNet to a Knowledge Base. In: Proc AAAI 2006 Spring Symposium on Formalizing and Compiling Background Knowledge, 2006. (Abstract, PDF, and slide presentation (PowerPoint)).
P. Clark, P. Harrison, T. Jenkins, J. Thompson, R. Wojcik. Acquiring and Using World Knowledge using a Restricted Subset of English. In: The 18th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS'05), 2005. (Abstract, PDF, and slide presentation (PowerPoint)).
P. Clark, P. Harrison, J. Thompson. A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Text Meaning Processing, In: Proceedings of the HLT Workshop on Text Meaning Processing, 2003, pp. 1-6, ACL Press. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript, and slide presentation (PowerPoint)).
P. Clark, P. Harrison, T. Jenkins, J. Thompson, R. Wojcik. Knowledge-Driven Text Interpretation and Question-Answering: Some Current Activities at Boeing Mathematics and Computing Technology. In: Proc. AAAI Spring Symposium on New Directions in Question Answering, 2003, p72, AAAI Tech Report SS-03-07. (PDF).
P. Clark, L. Duncan, H. Holmback, T. Jenkins, J. Thompson. A Knowledge-Rich Approach to Understanding Text about Aircraft Systems. In: Proceedings of Human Language Technologies Conference (HLT'02), pages 87-93, Ed: M. Marcus, CA:Kaufmann, 2002. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript, and slide presentation (PowerPoint)).

Knowledge Representation and Knowledge-based Systems

P. Clark, D. Morley, V. Chaudhri, K. Myers. A Portable Process Language. In Proc ICAPS Workshop on the Role of Ontologies in AI Planning and Scheduling, 2005. (Abstract, PDF).
N. Friedland, G. Matthews, M. Witbrock, D. Baxter, J. Curtis, B. Shepard, P. Miraglia, J. Angele, S. Staab, E. Moench, H. Oppermann, D. Wenke, D. Israel, V. Chaudhri, B. Porter, K. Barker, J. Fan, J. Chaw, P. Yeh, D. Tecuci, P. Clark. Project Halo: Towards a Digital Aristotle. In: AI Magazine 25 (4), 2004, pp. 29-47. AAAI Press. (Abstract, PDF).
K. Barker, V. Chaudhri, S. Chaw, P. Clark, J. Fan, D. Israel, S. Mishra, B. Porter, P. Romero, D. Tecuci, P. Yeh. A Question-Answering System for AP Chemistry: Assessing KR&R Technologies. In Proc 9th International Conf on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'04), 2004, AAAI Press. (Abstract, PDF).
N. Friedland, P. Allen, M. Witbrock, G. Matthews, N. Salay, P. Miraglia, J. Angele, S. Staab, D. Israel, V. Chaudhri, B. Porter, K. Barker, P. Clark. Towards a Quantitative, Platform-Independent Analysis of Knowledge Systems. In Proc 9th International Conf on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'04), 2004, AAAI Press. (Abstract, PDF).
V. Chaudhri, K. Murray, J. Pacheco,, P. Clark, B. Porter, P. Hayes. Graph-Based Acquisition of Expressive Knowledge, in Proc. European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW'04), 2004. (Abstract, PDF).
P. Clark, V. Chaudhri, S. Mishra, J. Thomere, K. Barker, B. Porter. Enabling Domain Experts to Convey Questions to a Machine: A Modified, Template-Based Approach. In 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCap'03), 2003, pp 13-19, ACM Press. (Abstract, PDF, slide presentation (PowerPoint)).
M. Uschold, P. Clark, F. Dickey, C. Fung, S. Smith, S. Uczekaj, M. Wilke, S. Bechhofer, I. Horrocks. A Semantic Infosphere, In: 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'03), 2003, pp. 20-23. (Abstract, PDF, slide presentation (by Mike Uschold) (PDF)).
K. Barker, J. Blythe, G. Borchardt, V. Chaudhri, P. Clark, P. Cohen, J. Fitzgerald, K. Forbus, Y. Gil, B. Katz, J. Kim, G. King, S. Mishra, C. Morrison, K. Murray, C. Otstott, B. Porter, R. Schrag, Tomas Uribe, J. Usher, P. Yeh. A Knowledge Acquisition Tool for Course of Action Analysis. In Proc 5th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI'03), 2003, pp 43-50, AAAI Press. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark, J. Thompson, and B. Porter. Knowledge Patterns. In Handbook of Ontologies, pages 191-207, Eds: S. Staab, R. Studer, Berlin:Springer, 2003. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript). This is an updated version of the earlier paper: Knowledge Patterns In KR'2000 (Proc 7th Int Conf), pages 591-600, Eds: A. Cohn, F. Giunchiglia, B. Selman, CA:Kaufmann, 2000. (Abstract, PDF, postscript, and slide presentation).
J. Thomere, K. Barker, V. Chaudhri, P. Clark, M. Eriksen, S. Mishra, B. Porter, A. Rodriguez. A Web-based Ontology Browsing and Editing System. In Proceedings of IAAI'02, pages 927-934, 2002. (Abstract, PDF).
P. Clark, M. Uschold. The Many Faces of the Semantic Web, a contributing position statement to the discussion: Ontologies' KISSES in Standarization, Ed: S. Staab. In: IEEE Intelligent Systems vol 17, no 2, pages 70-79, 2002. (PDF).
P. Clark, J. Thompson, K. Barker, B. Porter, V. Chaudhri, A. Rodriguez, J. Thomere, S. Mishra, Y. Gil, P. Hayes, T. Reichherzer. Knowledge Entry as the Graphical Assembly of Components. In Proc 1st Int Conf on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap'01), 2001. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript, and slide presentation).
K. Barker, B. Porter, P. Clark. A Library of Generic Concepts for Composing Knowledge Bases. In Proc 1st Int Conf on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap'01), 2001. (Abstract, PDF).
J. Fan, K. Barker, B. Porter, P. Clark. Representing Roles and Purpose. In Proc 1st Int Conf on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap'01), 2001. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark, J. Thompson, H. Holmback, L. Duncan. Exploiting a Thesaurus-Based Semantic Net for Knowledge-Based Search. In Proc 12th Conf on Innovative Applications of AI (AAAI/IAAI'2000), pages 988-995, 2000. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript, and slide presentation).
T. Adams, J. Dullea, P. Clark, S. Sripada, and T. Barrett. Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Information Sources Using a Knowledge-Based System. In Proc 5th Int Conf on CS and Informatics (CS&I'2000), 2000. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
M. Uschold, R. Jasper, and P. Clark. Three Approaches for Knowledge Sharing: A Comparative Analysis. Proc 12th Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling, and Management (KAW'99), 1999. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark, J. Thompson, and B. Porter. A Knowledge-Based Approach to Question-Answering. In the AAAI'99 Fall Symposium on Question-Answering Systems, pages 43-51, CA:AAAI Press. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript, and slide presentation).
P. Clark, J. Thompson, and M. L. Dittmar. KB-PHaSE: A Knowledge-Based Training Tool for a Space Experiment. Technical Report SSGTECH-98-035, Maths and Computing Technology, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (1998). (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript (expands to 32MB!)).
P. Clark, F. Lochovsky, R. Speigle, A. Sun. Mediated Information Access: Components, Technologies and Architectures. Technical Report SSGTECH-98-020, Maths and Computing Technology, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (1998). (Abstract).
P. Clark and B. Porter. Building Concept Representations from Reusable Components. In AAAI'97, pages 369-376, CA:AAAI Press, 1997. (Best Paper Award). (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark and B. Porter. Using Access Paths to Guide Inference with Conceptual Graphs. In Proc Int Conf on Conceptual Structures - ICCS'97 (Lecture Notes in AI vol 1257), pages 521-535, Eds: D. lukose, H. Delugach, M. Keeler, L. Searle, J. Sowa, Berlin:Springer, 1997. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript, and slide presentation).
Mike Barley, Peter Clark, Keith Williamson, Steve Woods. The Neutral Representation Project. In Proc AAAI Spring Symposium on Ontological Engineering, Stanford, CA, 1997. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
Mike Uschold, Mike Healy, Keith Williamson, Peter Clark, Steven Woods. Ontology Reuse and Application. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal Ontology and Information Systems - FOIS'98 (Frontiers in AI and Applications v46), pages 179-192, Ed: N. Guarino, Amsterdam:IOS Press, 1998. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript). Also see the slightly earlier workshop version: Mike Uschold, Peter Clark, Mike Healy, Keith Williamson, Steve Woods. An Experiment in Knowledge Reuse. In Proc. 11th Worshop on Knowledge Acquistion, Modeling, and Management (KAW'98), 1998. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript, and HTML).
P. Clark and B. Porter. Building Domain Representations from Components. AI Technical Report 06-332, Dept CS, Univ Texas at Austin (1996). (Abstract, PDF, Compressed postscript).
P. Clark and B. Porter. The KM Knowledge Representation Language. Dept CS, Univ Texas at Austin. (User Manual and Reference Manual).
P. Clark, B. Porter, and D. Batory. A Compositional Approach to Representing Planning Operators. AI Technical Report 06-331, Dept CS, Univ Texas at Austin (1996). (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark. Representing knowledge as arguments: Applying expert systems technology to judgemental problem-solving. In T. R. Addis and R. M. Muir, editors, Research and Development in Expert Systems VII, pages 147-159. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark. A Model of Argumentation and its Application in a Cooperative Expert System. PhD thesis, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK, 1991. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript [750k, 190pp]).
C. Wood and P. Clark. FADES: An Expert System for Fault Analysis and Diagnosis. TIRM 87-024, Turing Institute, 1987. (Abstract).
P. Clark. The Syntax vs. Semantics Debate Revisited?. In N. Cercone and G. McCalla, editors, Computational Intelligence, 9(4):366-367, 1993. (PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark. Towards an improved domain representation for planning. Master's thesis, Edinburgh Univ., Edinburgh, UK, 1985. (Abstract).
P. Clark and R. Holte. Generalised Backjumping. Tech. Report TR-92-20, Dept CS, Univ. Ottawa, May 1992. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).

Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning

P. Clark and S. Matwin. Using qualitative models to guide inductive learning. In P. Utgoff, editor, Proc. Tenth Int. Machine Learning Conference (ML-93), pages 49-56, CA, 1993. Kaufmann. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark and S. Matwin. Learning domain theories using abstract background knowledge. In P. Brazdil, editor, Proc. Sixth European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-93), pages 360-365, 1993. Springer-Verlag. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark and S. Matwin. Learning domain theories using abstract background knowledge. (an extended version of the previous paper), Tech Report TR-92-35, Dept CS, Ottawa Univ., Canada, 1992. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark and R. Holte. Lazy partial evaluation: An integration of explanation-based generalisation and partial evaluation. In D. Sleeman and P. Edwards, editors, Proc. Ninth Int. Machine Learning Conference (ML-92), pages 82-91, CA, 1992. Kaufmann. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark. Knowledge representation in machine learning. In Y. Kodratoff and A. Hutchinson, editors, Machine and Human Learning. pages 35-49, London, 1989. Kogan Page. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark. Nonmonotonic reasoning, argumentation and machine learning. Technical Report TIMLG-38, Turing Institute, Glasgow, UK, June 1990. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).

Inductive Learning

P. Clark and R. Boswell. Rule induction with CN2: Some recent improvements. In Y. Kodratoff, editor, Machine Learning - EWSL-91, pages 151-163, Berlin, 1991. Springer-Verlag. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark and T. Niblett. The CN2 Induction Algorithm. Machine Learning, 3(4):261-283, 1989. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark and T. Niblett. Induction in Noisy Domains. In I. Bratko and N. Lavrac, editors, Progress in Machine Learning: Proc. 2nd European ML Conference (EWSL-87). pages 11-30, Sigma, Wilmslow, UK, 1987. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark and T. Niblett. Learning if-then rules in noisy domains. In B. Phelps, editor, Interactions in Artificial Intelligence and Statistical Methods, pages 154-166. Gower, Hants, UK, 1987. (Abstract).
P. Clark, C. Feng, S. Matwin, K. Fung. Improving Image Classification by Combining Statistical, Case-Based and Model-Based Prediction Methods. Fundamenta Informaticae, 30 (3/4), pages 227-240 (1997). Also available as Technical Report TR-93-00, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. Ottawa, 1993. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark, B. Cestnik, C. Sammut, and J. Stender. Applications of Machine Learning. In Y. Kodratoff, editor, Machine Learning - EWSL-91, pages 457-462, Berlin, 1991. Springer-Verlag. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark. Machine learning: Techniques and recent developments. In A. R. Mirzai, editor, Artificial Intelligence: Concepts and Applications in Engineering. pages 65-93, Chapman and Hall, London, 1990. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Brazdil and P. Clark. Learning from Imperfect Data. In P. B. Brazdil and K. Konolige, editors, Machine Learning, Meta-reasoning and Logics, pages 207-232, Boston, 1990. Kluwer. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).

Case-Based Reasoning

P. Clark. A Comparison of Rule and Exemplar-based Learning Systems. In P. B. Brazdil and K. Konolige, editors, Machine Learning, Meta-reasoning and Logics, pages 159-186, Boston, 1990. Kluwer. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark. Exemplar-based reasoning in geological prospect appraisal. TIRM-89-034, Turing Institute, Glasgow, UK, 1989. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark. Representing arguments as background knowledge for constraining generalisation. In D. Sleeman, editor, Proc. Third European Working Session on Learning (EWSL-88), pages 37-44, London, October 1988. Pitman. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark. Representing arguments as background knowledge for the justification of case-based inferences. In E. L. Rissland and J. A. King, editors, Proc. AAAI-88 Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, pages 24-29. August 1988. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).
P. Clark. PROTOS: A Rational Reconstruction, Turing Institute Tech Report, 1987. (Abstract, PDF, compressed postscript).

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