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Jonathan Slocum

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Bennett, W.S. and J. Slocum, "The LRC Machine Translation System," Computational Linguistics 11 (2-3), 1985, pp. 111-121.
  • Hendrix, G.G., E.D. Sacerdoti, D. Sagalowicz, and J. Slocum, "Developing a Natural Language Interface to Complex Data," ACM Transactions on Database Systems 3 (2), June 1978, pp. 105-147. Reprinted in Current Issues in Computational Linguistics 9, 1995, pp. 59-107.
  • Simmons, R.F. and J. Slocum, "Generating English Discourse from Semantic Networks," Comm. ACM 15 (10), October 1972, pp. 891-905.
  • Slocum, J., "Speech Generation from Semantic Nets," American Journal of Computational Linguistics, 1975, 4, Microfiche 33.
  • Slocum, J. and L. Whiffin, "Machine Translation: Viewpoints from Both Sides," AILA Bulletin, 1984, pp. 27-58.
  • Slocum, J. and C.F. Justus, "Transportability to Other Languages," ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems 3 (2), April 1985, pp. 204-230.
  • Slocum, J., "Machine Translation," Computers and the Humanities 19 (2), April-June 1985, pp. 109-116.
  • Slocum, J., "A Survey of Machine Translation: Its History, Current Status, and Future Prospects," Computational Linguistics 11 (1), 1985, pp. 1-17.
  • Slocum, J., "A Machine(-Aided) Translation Bibliography," Computational Linguistics 11 (2-3), 1985.
  • Slocum, J., "Machine Translation: an American Perspective," Proceedings of the IEEE 74, 7, (July) 1986, pp. 969-978.
  • Slocum, J., "Concept-Lexeme-Syntax Triangles: a Gateway to Interlingual Translation," Computers and Translation 2, 4, 1987, pp. 243-261.
  • Slocum, J., and D. Simms, "Going Online: Problems and Solutions for Indo-Europeanists and Other Linguists," General Linguistics 42, 2004 (2002), pp. 44-60.
  • Slocum, J., "Early Indo-European Online (EIEOL): Ancient language lessons in web page form," Journal of Indo-European Studies 33, 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2005, pp. 315-323.

Conference Papers

  • Hendrix, G.G., C.W. Thompson, and J. Slocum, "Language Processing via Canonical Verbs and Semantic Models," Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Stanford University, California, 20-23 August 1973, pp. 262-269.
  • Slocum, J., "An Experiment in Machine Translation," Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia, 19-22 June 1980, pp. 163-167.
  • Slocum, J., J. Bichteler, and R.A. Amsler, "Inference Nets for Modeling Geoscience Reference Knowledge," in Communicating Information: Proceedings of the 43rd ASIS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, Calif., 5-10 October 1980, pp. 183-185.
  • Slocum, J., "A Practical Comparison of Parsing Strategies," Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Stanford University, 29 June - 1 July 1981, pp. 1-6.
  • Slocum, J., "The LRC Machine Translation System: An Application of State-of-the-Art Text and Natural Language Processing Techniques," presented at the Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 82), Prague, Czechoslovakia, 5-10 July 1982.
  • Slocum, J., "A Status Report on the LRC Machine Translation System," Proceedings of the ACL-NRL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Santa Monica, California, 1-3 February 1983, pp. 166-173.
  • Slocum, J., "Machine Translation: Its History, Current Status, and Future Prospects," Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 84), Stanford University, California, 2-6 July 1984, pp. 546-561.
  • Slocum, J., W.S. Bennett, L. Whiffin, and E. Norcross, "An Evaluation of METAL: the LRC Machine Translation System," Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 27-29 March 1985, pp. 62-69.
  • Slocum, J., "Machine Translation: an American Perspective," presented at the Artificial Intelligence '86 Conference and Exhibition, Singapore, 23-27 March 1986.
  • Slocum, J., "Machine Translation: Practical Issues," presented at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Second World Basque Congress, San Sebastian, The Basque Country, Spain, 7-11 September 1987.
  • Slocum, J., "Morphological Processing in the Nabu System," Proceedings of the Second ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Austin, Texas, 9-12 February 1988, pp. 228-234.
  • Slocum, J., "The Lexicographer's Workbench," [accepted for] the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 88), Budapest, Hungary, 22-27 August 1988.
  • Walker, D.E. and W.H. Paxton, with J. Slocum et al., "Procedures for Integrating Knowledge in a Speech Understanding System," Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 22-25 August 1977, pp. 36-42.

Book Chapters

  • Aristar, A. and J. Slocum, "The Treatment of Grammatical Categories and Word Order in Machine Translation," in A. Wahab and M. Sieny (eds.), Studies in Machine Translation. Riyadh, 1986, pp. 155-183.
  • Bennett, W.S. and J. Slocum, "The LRC Machine Translation System," in J. Slocum (ed.), Machine Translation Systems. Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 111-138.
  • Hendrix, G.G., E.D. Sacerdoti, D. Sagalowicz, and J. Slocum, "Developing a Natural Language Interface to Complex Data," ACM Transactions on Database Systems article reprinted in J. A. Larson and H. A. Freeman (eds.), Tutorial: Data Base Management in the 1980's. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, 1981, pp. 89-131. Also reprinted in B.J. Grosz, K.S. Jones, and B.L. Webber (eds.), Readings in Natural Language Processing. Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, California, 1986, pp. 563-584.
  • Slocum, J., "Generating a Verbal Response," in D.E. Walker (ed.), Understanding Spoken Language. North-Holland, New York, 1978, pp. 375-380.
  • Slocum, J., "How one might Automatically Identify and Adapt to a Sublanguage: An Initial Exploration," in R. Grishman and R. Kittredge, eds., Analyzing Language in Restricted Domains: Sublanguage Description and Processing. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, N.J., 1986, pp. 195-210.
  • Slocum, J., "METAL: The LRC Machine Translation System," in M. King (ed.), Machine Translation Today. Edinburgh University Press, 1987, pp. 319-350.
  • Slocum, J., "Machine Translation: Its History, Current Status, and Future Prospects," in J. Slocum (ed.), Machine Translation Systems. Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 1-46.
  • Slocum, J., "A Machine(-Aided) Translation Bibliography," in J. Slocum (ed.), Machine Translation Systems. Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 257-329.
  • Slocum, J., "Machine Translation: a Survey of Active Systems," in I. Batori, W. Lenders, and W. Putschke, eds., Computational Linguistics: An International Handbook on Computer Oriented Language Research and Applications. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1989.
  • Slocum, J., "Machine Translation: practical issues," in J.A. Campbell and J. Cuena, eds., Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence, Volume II: Machine Translation, NLP, Databases and Computer-aided Instruction. Ellis Horwood, Ltd., Chichester, U.K., 1989, pp. 13-38.
  • Slocum, J. and M.G. Morgan, "The Role of Dictionaries and Machine-Readable Lexicons in Translation," in D.E. Walker, A. Zampolli, and N. Calzolari, eds., Automating the Lexicon: Research and Practice in a Multilingual Environment. Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 221-247.

Theses & Books

  • Slocum, J. The Graph Processing Language GROPE. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, 1975.
  • Slocum, J. A Practical Comparison of Parsing Strategies for Machine Translation and Other Natural Language Processing Purposes. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, 1981.
  • Slocum, J. (ed). Machine Translation Systems. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
  • Slocum, J., and E.R. Bloom. The Lineage and Descendants of Giles Frederick Slocum. Austin: Slocum, 2000.

Online Books

Major Web Publications

Technical & Project Reports

  • Baron, R.J., D.P. Friedman, L.G. Shapiro, and J. Slocum, Graph Processing using GROPE/360. Technical Report 73-13, Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa, December 1973.
  • Bennett, W.S. and J. Slocum, The LRC Machine Translation System. Tech. Report AI-013-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, March 1985.
  • Cohen, R., R. Kleiman, A. Mendall, M. O'Leary, and J. Slocum, The NABU User's Manual. Tech. Report AI-183-87-P, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, June 1987.
  • Duda, R.O., P.E. Hart, N.J. Nilsson, R. Reboh, J. Slocum, and G.L. Sutherland, Development of a Computer-based Consultant for Mineral Exploration. Annual Report, USGS Contract No. 14-08-0001-15985 and NSF Grant No. AER77-04499, Projects 5821 and 6415, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, October 1977.
  • Duda, R.O., P.E. Hart, P. Barrett, J.C. Gaschnig, K. Konolige, R. Reboh, and J. Slocum, Development of the PROSPECTOR Consultation System for Mineral Exploration. Final Report, USGS Contract No. 14-08-0001-15985 and NSF Grant No. AER77-04499, Projects 5821 and 6415, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, October 1978.
  • Friedman, D.P. and J. Slocum, The Implementer's Guide to GROPE. Technical Report, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, 1972.
  • Greenawalt, E.M., R.A. Amsler, J. Slocum, and M. Tyson, LISP Reference Manual: CDC-6000. CCUM-2, Computation Center, University of Texas, December 1975.
  • Lehmann, W.P., W.S. Bennett, J. Slocum, et al., The METAL System. Final Technical Report RADC-TR-80-374, Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB, New York, January 1981. Available as Report AO-97896, National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Va.
  • Matuszek, D. and J. Slocum, An Implementation of the Augmented Transition Network System of Woods. Technical Report NL-9, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, October 1972.
  • Simmons, R.F. and J. Slocum, Generating English Discourse from Semantic Networks. Technical Report NL-3, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, November 1970.
  • Slocum, J., Question Answering via Canonical Verbs and Semantic Models: Generating English from the Model. Technical Report NL-13, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, January 1973.
  • Slocum, J., The U.T. LOGO Primer: the Novice's Guide to LOGO. Technical Report NL-23, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, October 1974.
  • Slocum, J., An English Affix Analyzer with Intermediate Dictionary Look-up. Working Paper LRC-81-1, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, February 1981.
  • Slocum, J., The METAL Parsing System. Working Paper LRC-81-2, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, February 1981.
  • Slocum, J., and W.S. Bennett, The LRC Machine Translation System: An Application of State-of-the-Art Text and Natural Language Processing Techniques to the Translation of Technical Manuals. Working Paper LRC-82-1, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, July 1982.
  • Slocum, J., A Status Report on the LRC Machine Translation System. Working Paper LRC-82-3, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, December 1982.
  • Slocum, J., How one might Automatically Identify and Adapt to a Sublanguage: an initial exploration. Working Paper LRC-84-1, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, January 1984.
  • Slocum, J., METAL: The LRC Machine Translation System. Working Paper LRC-84-2, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, April 1984.
  • Slocum, J., Machine Translation: Its History, Current Status, and Future Prospects. Working Paper LRC-84-3, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, May 1984.
  • Slocum, J., Machine Translation. Tech. Report AI-009-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, February 1985.
  • Slocum, J., and L. Whiffin, Machine Translation: Viewpoints from Both Sides. Tech. Report AI-010-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, February 1985.
  • Slocum, J., A Machine(-Aided) Translation Bibliography. Tech. Report AI-012-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, March 1985.
  • Slocum, J., and A. Aristar, The Treatment of Grammatical Categories and Word Order in MT. Tech. Report AI-015-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, March 1985.
  • Slocum, J., W.S. Bennett, L. Whiffin, and E. Norcross, An Evaluation of METAL: the LRC Machine Translation System. Tech. Report AI-014-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, March 1985.
  • Slocum, J., and C.F. Justus, Transportability to Other Languages. Tech. Report AI-006-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, March 1985.
  • Slocum, J., Parser Construction Techniques: a Tutorial. Tech. Report AI-007-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, May 1985.
  • Slocum, J., A Practical Comparison of Parsing Strategies. Tech. Report AI-008-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, May 1985.
  • Slocum, J., A Survey of Machine Translation: Its History, Current Status, and Future Prospects. Tech. Report AI-011-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, May 1985.
  • Slocum, J., A Suite of Bottom-up Parsers. Tech. Report AI-016-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, June 1985.
  • Slocum, J., Machine Translation: an American Perspective. Tech. Report AI-083-85, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, August 1985.
  • Slocum, J., and R.M. Cohen, NABU Software Release 2.0, Version 36 - Documentation. Tech. Report AI-228-86-Q, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, July 1986.
  • Slocum, J. and M.G. Morgan, The Role of Dictionaries and Machine-Readable Lexicons in Translation. Tech. Report AI-386-86, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, Nov. 1986.
  • Slocum, J., Machine Translation: a Survey of Active Systems. Tech. Report AI-058-87, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, Feb. 1987.
  • Slocum, J., The NABU Word Lattice. Tech. Report AI-155-87-Q, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, May 1987.
  • Slocum, J., The NABU Dictionary Window. Tech. Report AI-156-87-P, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, May 1987.
  • Slocum, J., Concept-Lexeme-Syntax Triangles: a Gateway to Interlingual Translation. Tech. Report ACA-HI-321-87, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, October 1987.
  • Slocum, J., Morphological Processing in the Nabu System. Tech. Report ACA-HI-367-87, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas, December 1987.
  • Slocum, J. Object-Oriented Grammars for Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Natural Language. National Science Foundation Final Project Report, SBIR Phase I, Goodbyte Corp., Austin, Texas, July 1995.
  • Slocum, J. Object-Oriented Grammars: System Documentation. Technical Report, Goodbyte Corp., Austin, Texas, March 1996.

Workshop Presentations

  • Slocum, J., "How one might Automatically Identify and Adapt to a Sublanguage: an initial exploration," presented at the Sublanguage Workshop, New York University, 19-20 January 1984.
  • Slocum, J., "METAL: The LRC Machine Translation System," presented at the ISSCO Tutorial on Machine Translation, Lugano, Switzerland, 2-6 April 1984.
  • Slocum, J. and C.F. Justus, "Transportability to Other Languages," presented at the ACL/NRL Workshop on Transportable Language Processing, Duke University, North Carolina, 22-23 October 1984.
  • Slocum, J. and A. Aristar, "The Treatment of Grammatical Categories and Word Order in MT," presented at the International Workshop on CAT, Saudi Arabian National Center for Science and Technology, Riyadh, 16-19 March 1985.
  • Slocum, J. and M.G. Morgan, "The Role of Dictionaries and Machine-Readable Lexicons in Translation," presented at the Workshop on Automating the Lexicon, Grosseto, Italy, 19-23 May 1986.
  • Slocum, J., "Evaluating MT Systems: a business viewpoint," presented at the Workshop on the Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 8-9 December 1988.
  • Slocum, J., "History of Machine Translation," presented at the IBM Europe Institute 1989, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 7-11 August 1989.

Other

  • Slocum, J. Machine Translation: Its History, Current Status, and Future Prospects. White Paper commissioned by the Director of the Division of International Programs, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., October 1983.
  • Slocum, J., review of Word Expert Semantics: an Interlingual Knowledge-Based Approach by B.C. Papegaaij, V. Sadler, and A.P.M. Witkam (eds). Computational Linguistics 15 (3), 1989, pp. 207-210.
  • Slocum, J., online review of InQuizit, a product of Intelligent Text Processing Corp. Feb. 23, 1996.
  • Slocum, J., review of Open-Domain Question Answering from Large Text Collections. To appear in General Linguistics 44, 2006 (2004), pp. 143-47.
  • Slocum, J., Early Indo-European Languages: Publishing Multi-lingual Texts Online. University of Texas, Austin, 2006, 2009.
  • Slocum, J., Building an Indo-European Lexicon Using Print and Online Dictionaries. University of Texas, Austin, 2009.

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