Semantic Research Remko Scha

Design of Natural-Language Database-Interfaces: PHLIQA (Philips' Research Laboratories).

Piet Medema, Wim Bronnenberg, Harry Bunt, Jan Landsbergen, Remko Scha, Wijnand Schoenmakers and Eric van Utteren: "PHLIQA1: Multilevel Semantics in Question Answering." AJCL Microfiche 32, 1975.

Remko Scha: "Semantic Types in PHLIQA1." Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Ottawa, 1976.

Remko Scha: "A Formal Language for Semantic Representation." In L. Steels (ed.): Proceedings of the Workshop Advances in Natural Language Processing. University of Antwerp, October, 1976.

Remko Scha: "Philips Question-Answering System PHLIQA1." ACM Sigart Newletter, 61, 1977.

Jan Landsbergen and Remko Scha: "An Outline of the Question Answering System PHLIQA1." Proceedings of the Workshop Logic and Data Bases. ONERA-CERT, Toulouse. November, 1977.

Wim Bronnenberg, Jan Landsbergen, Remko Scha, Wijnand Schoenmakers and Eric van Utteren: "PHLIQA1, a Question-Answering System for Data-Base Consultation in Natural English." Philips Technical Review 38 (1978/79); German translation in Philips Technische Rundschau 38 (1979).

Jan Landsbergen and Remko Scha: "Formal Languages for Semantic Representation." In: S. Allèn and J.S. Petöfi (eds.): Aspects of Automatized Text Processing. Papers in Text Linguistics, 17. Hamburg: Buske, 1979.

Wim Bronnenberg, Harry Bunt, Jan Landsbergen, Remko Scha, Wijnand Schoenmakers and Eric van Utteren: "The Question-Answering System PHLIQA1." In: L. Bolc (ed.): Natural Language Question Answering Systems. Munich and Vienna: Hanser. London: Macmillan, 1980. Pp. 217-305.

Remko Scha: "English Words and Data Bases: How to Bridge the Gap." Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, 1982. Pp. 57-59.

Remko Scha: Logical Foundations for Question Answering. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Groningen, 1983. (Advisors: Joyce Friedman, Frank Heny.) M.S. 12.331, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Anon.: "Met een dosis nuchterheid solide vraag-antwoordsystemen ontwerpen." Philips Koerier, 39, 17 (February 24), 1983, p. 2.

Anon.: "Phliqa project." Philips News, April 18, 1983.
Niels Wiedenhof: "Alfa-informatica voor toevalskunst, maar ook voor zakelijke software-ontwikkeling. Prof. dr. ir. Remko Scha's nieuwe weg voor kunst en taal." Cursor 34, 32 (April 16, 1992), pp. 12/13.

Design of Natural-Language Database-Interfaces: JANUS (BBN Laboratories).

Lance Ramshaw, Remko Scha and Ralph Weischedel: "Research and Development in Natural Language Processing in the Strategic Computing Program." Computational Linguistics 12, 2 (April-June 1986), pp. 132-136.

Damaris Ayuso, Erhard Hinrichs and Remko Scha: "The Syntax and Semantics of the JANUS Semantic Interpretation Language." In R. Weischedel et al.: Research and Development in Natural Language Understanding as Part of the Strategic Computing Program: Annual Technical Report. December 1985 - December 1986. Report No. 6522. Cambridge, Massachusetts: BBN Laboratories, June 1987.

D. Ayuso, Y. Chow, A. Haas, R. Ingria, S. Roucos, R. Scha and D. Stallard: Integration of Speech and Natural Language. BBN Report No. 6813. April 1988.

Remko Scha: "Natural Language Interfaces." In: M. Helander (ed.): Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction. Amsterdam: North-Holland. 1988. Pp. 941-956.

S. Boisen, Y. Chow, A. Haas, R. Ingria, S. Roucos, R. Scha, D. Stallard, and M. Vilain: Integration of Speech and Natural Language: Final Report. Report No. 6991. Cambridge, Mass.: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation. 1989.

Crist-Jan Doedens: Text Databases. One Database Model and Several Retrieval Languages. Utrecht University, OTS. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. (Promotors: Jan Landsbergen and Remko Scha.)

Quantification, Plurals, Collectives.

Remko Scha: "Distributive, Collective and Cumulative Quantification." In J.A.G. Groenendijk, T.M.V. Janssen, and M.B.J. Stokhof (eds.): Formal Methods in the Study of Language, Part 2. Amsterdam: Mathematisch Centrum, 1981, pp. 483-512.

[Reprinted in: J.A.G. Groenendijk, T.M.V. Janssen and M.B.J. Stokhof (eds.): Truth, Interpretation and Information. GRASS 3. Dordrecht: Foris, 1984, pp. 131-158. Second reprint in: Javier GutiŽrrez-Rexach (ed.): Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. (Vol. III. Noun Phrase Classes.) Chapter 40. Routledge, 2003.]

David Stallard and Remko Scha: "Multi-level Plurals and Distributivity." In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the ACL. Buffalo, New York. June 1988.

Remko Scha: "Afterthoughts on Collections." In: J. van der Does (ed.): Quantification and Anaphora II, University of Edinburgh, 1991, pp. 53-58.

Martin H. van den Berg: Some Aspects of the Internal Structure of Discourse; The Dynamics of Nominal Anaphora. March 7, 1996. (Promotors: Johan van Benthem and Remko Scha. Co-promotor: Jaap van der Does.) ILLC Dissertation Series 1996-3.

Other issues in linguistic semantics.

Jos de Bruin and Remko Scha: "The Interpretation of Relational Nouns." In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the ACL. Buffalo, New York. June 1988.

Kirsten Romijn: Hoe doen we het? Verwijzen naar linguistische en cognitieve representaties met het voornaamwoord het. November 29, 1996. Amsterdam: P.J. Meertens-Instituut. (Publicaties van het P.J. Meertens-Instituut, Vol. 27.) (Promotor: Remko Scha.)

Update Semantics and Dynamic Logic.

Henk Zeevat and Remko Scha: "Integrating Pragmatics into Update Semantics." In: A. Ortony, J. Slack and O. Stock (eds.): Communication from an Artificial Intelligence Perspective: Theoretical and Applied Issues. Heidelberg: Springer, 1992, pp. 17-34.

M. Pinkal, R. Scha and L. Schubert (eds.): Semantic Formalisms in Natural Language Processing. Dagstuhl Seminar Report 57, IFBI, Schloß Dagstuhl, Wadern, 1993.

Martin H. van den Berg: Some Aspects of the Internal Structure of Discourse; The Dynamics of Nominal Anaphora. March 7, 1996. (Promotors: Johan van Benthem and Remko Scha. Co-promotor: Jaap van der Does.) ILLC Dissertation Series 1996-3.

Integration with statistical natural-language processing, in particular with Data-Oriented Parsing (DOP).

Martin van den Berg, Rens Bod and Remko Scha: "A Corpus-Based Approach to Semantic Interpretation." In: P. Dekker and M. Stokhof (eds.): Proceedings of the Ninth Amsterdam Colloquium. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 141-160.

[Reprinted with minor additions as Chapter 8 ("Further Extensions of DOP: Semantics, Discourse, Recency") in: Rens Bod: Enriching Linguistics with Statistics: Performance Models of Natural Language (ILLC Dissertation Series 1995-14, University of Amsterdam, 1995), and as Chapter 8 ("An experience-based model for compositional semantic representations") in: Rens Bod: Beyond Grammar: an Experience-Based Theory of Language (CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 1998).]

Remko Bonnema, Remko Scha and Rens Bod: "A Data-oriented Approach to Semantic Interpretation." Proceedings Workshop on Corpus-Oriented Semantic Analysis, ECAI-96, Budapest, Hungary, 1996. cmp-lg/9606024.

Remko Bonnema: Data-Oriented Semantics. M.A. Thesis, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, 1996. [Supervisor: Remko Scha.]

R. Bod, R. Bonnema and R. Scha: "Data-Oriented Semantic Interpretation", Proceedings Second International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-II, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 1997), pp. 15-25.