Presentations:
- Computational Semantic Applications. West Coast Conference on Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2003.
- Computational Semantics. Southern California Linguistic Society Meeting, UCLA, 1999.
- Computational Word Sense Disambiguation. UCLA Colloquium, 1999.
- Lexical Marking and the Recovery of Discourse Structure. International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Session on Discourse Markers, Montreal, 1998.
- Relevance Reasoning for Text Retrieval. Society for Text and Discourse, Washington, D.C., 1994.
- Finding Relevant Texts. AAAI Symposium, New Orleans, 1984.
- Computational Linguistics or Statistics? Los Angeles ACM, TAC on Artificial Intelligence. 1992.
- Topic Extraction. Society for Text and Discourse, 1990.
- A Naïve Semantic Lexicon for Computational Linguistics. Arizona State University Cognitive Science Colloquium, 1990.
- Philosophical Bases of Coherence Relations. Winter Text Conference, 1990.
- Large-Scale Natural Language Processing. Computer Science Colloquium, U.C. Irvine, 1989.
- Natural Language Processing. IBM Technology Seminar Series on CENET.
- Discourse Coherence and Discourse Representation Theory. LILOG Project Colloquium, IBM Germany, Stuttgart, 1989.
- Discourse, Coherence and Naïve Semantics. Symposium on Cognitive Linguistics, Duisberg, Germany, 1989.
- Coherence Relations and Discourse Segmentation. Conference on Modelling Discourse Segments and Discourse Relations at the University of Texas, Austin, February, 1988.
- A Computational Approach to Coherence. IBM Natural Language Conference, 1988.
- Coherence Relation Assignment. West Coast Conference on Linguistics, Fresno, California, 1988.
- Ontological Similarity. Linguistics Seminar, IBM Germany, 1987.
- Naïve Semantics and Lexical Semantics. Conference on Conceptual Graphs, Paris, 1987.
- Discourse Relations. Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, 1987.
- Using Commonsense Knowledge to Disambiguate. Southern California Artificial Intelligence Society, San Diego, April, 1986.
- Kinds as Metaconcepts in Knowledge Representation. Southern California Artificial Intelligence Society, 1985.