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Douglas Appelt

Douglas Appelt has 2 papers in our library, in 1987–1988, most of them on Speech act theory, Text generation, Reasoning.

2 papers in our library · 1987–1988

OpenAlex · h-index 25 · 69 works · 4,105 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 14 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6886

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 Affiliations

🔬SRI InternationalMenlo Park · United States1980–2004 · 33 papers🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States1980–1985 · 3 papers

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 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 1 workLanguage and Linguistics · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Text generation · 1 workReasoning · 1 workSpeech act theory · 1 work

 Works by year

1980s

19881 paper19871 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Bidirectional Grammars and the Design of Natural Language Generation Systems (1987 · 59 citations)
    This is a position paper on the architecture of systems that both understand and generate natural language.
  2. A Practical Nonmonotonic Theory for Reasoning about Speech Acts (1988 · 37 citations)
    The paper asks how to formally describe what changes in the beliefs of a speaker and a hearer after an utterance, since the outcome depends heavily on context.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 14 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 2 citing papers with a page here →.

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