BIBLIOGRAPHY




<1> Ivan A Sag, Thomas Wasow "Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction", CSLI Publications,Leland Stanford Junior University, Jan 1997
      This books introduces the existing syntactic theories for natural language and gives a detailed description of HPSG (Head driven Phrase Structure Grammar). Takes a step by step approach to tell the significance of head driven rules in parsing


<2> Andrew R Haas "Testing a Simulated Robot that Follows Directions" JAIR,1999

@InProceeding{ Haas/1999,
author={Andrew R. Haas},
year={1999},
keywords={Simulated robot,natural language processing,restricted domain knowledge},
institution={University of Albany},
title={Testing a Simulated Robot that Follows Directions},
journal={JAIR},
month={january},
URL= http://www.cs.albany.edu//~haas/taskbased
annote={
This paper describes a simulated robot that travel through a office building,following direction given in natural english. He uses a grammar inspired by HPSG . As the input sentence is parsed the semantic representation of the sentence is constructed simultaneously. So there is only one phase in the main routine of the program. The high level control procedures are such that they can describe almost all sentences of this domain and still then very easy to be implemented by a real robot using with primitive sensory and moving capabilities. The author tested this program on natural examples (example from people who were not present when it was being developed) and claims that in 66% the robot  reaches the right destination.
}



<3>Mark C Torrance, "Natural Communication with Mobile Robots",AP Group,MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,Jan1995.

       Author implemented a system which mediated between an reactive mobile robot and domain restricted natural language. He introduced ROB's (Reactive odometric Plan) for
plan recognition and fault tolerant plan execution and learning to associate human terms with location in the environment..  A reactive odometric plan or ROP is a representation of a short range plan to get the robot between two places. These ROPs provide a way for the robot to understand a place in terms of a way to get there in the world. The user can name places ,ask question about the robot's plan and about the spatial relationships of known places, give the robot long term goals. Author implemented the system in a physical mobile robot system.