🧑‍🔬 Yorick Wilks

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of SheffieldSheffield · United Kingdom1979–2019 · 165 papers🎓New Mexico State UniversityLas Cruces · United States1985–1994 · 51 papers🎓University of EssexColchester · United Kingdom1977–1986 · 22 papers🔬Florida Institute for Human and Machine CognitionPensacola · United States2010–2020 · 21 papers🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States1971–1975 · 10 papers🎓University of OxfordOxford · United Kingdom2007–2010 · 9 papers🎓University of EdinburghEdinburgh · United Kingdom1976–1978 · 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📅 Works by year

2000s

1990s

1970s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. An ascription-based approach to Speech Acts (1996 · 16 citations)
   The paper argues that speech act processing in dialogue has relied on weak belief models. Earlier systems assumed fixed, precomputed stacks of nested beliefs, including "mutual belief", which in principle regresses forever. The authors build on ViewGen, a Quintus Prolog program by Ballim and Wilks that represents an…
2. Eliminating deceptions and mistaken belief to infer conversational implicature (1998 · 11 citations)
   Caveat: the supplied extraction contains only a page marker ("с. 1") and no body text. This summary relies on the paper's title and publicly known abstract, so treat it as provisional until the full text is checked. Lee and Wilks address a gap in Gricean accounts of conversational implicature. Standard treatments say…
3. Cross-Domain Dialogue Act Tagging (2008 · 9 citations)
   The paper asks whether dialogue act (DA) cues learned automatically from one corpus still work on conversations from a different domain.
4. Semantics and world knowledge in MT (1976)
   A position statement for a seminar. The author shows that even simple newspaper paragraphs need more than syntax to translate: knowledge about the world, inference, and what he calls preference rules, which choose between readings that are all grammatical. The problems he names are word sense ambiguity, case…

All works

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

1. Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar ↗36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 1 · no summary yetAlexander Krotov et al.1998 · 53 citations
2. Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar ↗COLING 1998 Volume 1: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yetAlexander Krotov et al.1998 · 41 citations
3. CLAROS - Bringing Classical Art to a Global Public ↗IEEE International Conference on eScience · no summary yetDonna C. Kurtz et al.2009 · 25 citations
4. ULTRA: A Multi-lingual Machine Translator ↗Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit III: Papers · no summary yetDavid Farwell, Yorick Wilks1991 · 25 citations
5. The Automatic Creation of Lexical Entries for a Multilingual MT System ↗COLING 1992 Volume 2: The 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yetDavid Farwell, Louise Guthrie, Yorick Wilks1992 · 21 citations
6. An ascription-based approach to Speech ActsInternational Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)Mark Lee, Yorick Wilks1996 · 16 citations
7. Eliminating deceptions and mistaken belief to infer conversational implicaturearXiv:cmp-lg/9806005Mark Lee, Yorick Wilks1998 · 11 citations
8. Cross-Domain Dialogue Act TaggingLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)Nick Webb, Ting Liu, Mark Hepple, et al.2008 · 9 citations
9. Corpora and Machine Translation ↗Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IV · no summary yetWilks, Yorick1993 · 2 citations
10. Evaluation of MT Systems ↗Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit III: Panels · no summary yetMargaret King et al.1991 · 1 citation
11. Machine Translation Again? ↗Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania, June 24-27, 1990 · no summary yetYorick Wilks et al.1990 · 1 citation
12. Interactive Semantic Analysis of English Paragraphs ↗International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING 1969: Preprint No. 8 · no summary yetWilks, Yorick1969 · 1 citation
13. Panel: The limits of automation: optimists vs skeptics. ↗Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas · no summary yetEduard Hovy et al.1996
14. Noun Phrasal Entries in the EDR English Word Dictionary ↗COLING 1994 Volume 1: The 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yetA. Koizumi et al.1994
15. Semantics and world knowledge in MTYorick WilksMachine translation

🤝 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Mark Lee ×2
• Nick Webb
• Ting Liu

Venues

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

• COLING 1992 Volume 2: The 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics ×3
• 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 1
• International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING): COLING 1996
• Foreign Broadcast Information Service Seminar on Machine Translation: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Seminar on Machine Translation 1976
• Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC): LREC 2008
• Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
• IEEE International Conference on eScience
• International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING 1969: Preprint No. 8
• Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit III: Panels
• Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit III: Papers
• Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IV
• Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania, June 24-27, 1990

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 34 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 6 citing papers with a page here →.

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