Most of this material consists of unpublished papers by R.H. Thomason, some co-authored. All archived materials are also available by anonymous ftp from pogo.isp.pitt.edu, Internet address 136.142.135.159. They all reside in the directory /users/ftp/pub/thomason on that machine, or in its subdirectories.
As of Feb. 7, 1996.
A paper on the role of context in discourse. 1995. (Co-author, Johanna Moore.)
This is a position paper describing (and, to some extent, analyzing) difficulties in using empirical methods to test theories about discourse, and proposing a simulation-based methodology. 1994. (Co-author, Pamela Jordan.)
Develops an action formalism in which certain counterfactual conditionals can be defined. This enables a qualitative account of certain utility arguments. 1996. (Co-author, Jeff Horty.)
Argues that cognitive constraints on semantic representation lead to the semantic paradoxes. 1979.
Investigates the question of whether there are intentional paradoxes, analogous to the semantic paradoxes, but dealing with propositions rather than with sentences. 1982.
A survey chapter dealing with the topic of nonmonotonicity in linguistic theory.
This paper is written for specialists in formalizing common sense, as a guide to relevant work in semantics.
Discusses an architecture for implementing two-level rules (with Gerald Penn).
This is Jerry Hobbs' source Common Lisp code for Tacitus Lite, an abductive tool for reasoning with natural language. See the notice at the beginning of the file. Contact for this is hobbs@ai.sri.com.