Resolving Pronoun References (1978 · 737 citations)
The paper presents what became known as the Hobbs algorithm, a purely syntactic procedure for finding the antecedent of a pronoun.
An Algorithm for Generating Quantifier Scopings (1987 · 162 citations)
Syntax usually makes predicate-argument structure clear, but it does not show how quantifiers and modals scope over one another.
An Improper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English (1983 · 58 citations)
Hobbs tackles quantifier scope ambiguity. A sentence with several quantified noun phrases, such as one about democratic countries, politicians, people, issues and times, gets 120 distinct scopings in standard logical form. Yet humans understand it without ever choosing one. He rejects three alternatives: a…
Annotating and Learning Event Durations in Text (2011 · 39 citations)
The paper tackles a largely ignored aspect of temporal understanding: estimating how long events last when a text gives no explicit duration.

All works

8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

Resolving Pronoun ReferencesJerry R. HobbsMova's core list · 737 citations
An Algorithm for Generating Quantifier ScopingsComputational LinguisticsJerry R. Hobbs, Stuart M. Shieber1987 · 162 citations
An Improper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary EnglishAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Jerry R. Hobbs1983 · 58 citations
Annotating and Learning Event Durations in TextComputational LinguisticsFeng Pan, Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Jerry R. Hobbs2011 · 39 citations
Translation by Abduction ↗COLING 1990 Volume 3: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yetJerry R. Hobbs, Megumi Kameyama1990 · 11 citations
A General System for Semantic Analysis of English and its Use in Drawing Maps from Directions ↗Computational Linguistics · no summary yetHobbs, Jerry R.1975 · 3 citations
Machine Translation Using Abductive Inference ↗Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Pacific Grove, California, February 19-22, 1991 · no summary yetJerry R. Hobbs, Megumi Kameyama1991 · 1 citation
Session 8A: Machine Translation ↗Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, New York, February 23-26, 1992 · no summary yetHobbs, Jerry R.1992

Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

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

Computational Linguistics ×3: Computational Linguistics 2011, Computational Linguistics 1987
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): ACL 1983
COLING 1990 Volume 3: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Lingua 44(4), 311-338
Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, New York, February 23-26, 1992
Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Pacific Grove, California, February 19-22, 1991

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