Richard Power
Biographic Data
| ID | 3851501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Power |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Power |
| SIGNATURE | POWER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hedging and rounding in numerical expressions
Previous accounts of hedges assume that they cause language to become vague or fuzzy (Lakoff 1973); however, hedges can actually sharpen numerical concepts by giving explicit information about approximation, especially where bare numbers appear misleadingly round or precise. They can also tell hearers about the direction of approximation (greater or less than). This article provides a first empirical account of interactions between hedging and ro…
Generating Numerical Approximations
We describe a computational model for planning phrases like “more than a quarter” and “25.9 per cent” which describe proportions at different levels of precision. The model lays out the key choices in planning a numerical description, using formal definitions of mathematical form (e.g., the distinction between fractions and percentages) and roundness adapted from earlier studies. The task is modeled as a constraint satisfaction problem, with solu…
Composing Questions through Conceptual Authoring
This article describes a method for composing fluent and complex natural language questions, while avoiding the standard pitfalls of free text queries. The method, based on Conceptual Authoring, is targeted at question-answering systems where reliability and transparency are critical, and where users cannot be expected to undergo extensive training in question composition. This scenario is found in most corporate domains, especially in applicatio…
Optimizing Referential Coherence in Text Generation
This article describes an implemented system which uses centering theory for planning of coherent texts and choice of referring expressions. We argue that text and sentence planning need to be driven in part by the goal of maintaining referential continuity and thereby facilitating pronoun resolution: Obtaining a favorable ordering of clauses, and of arguments within clauses, is likely to increase opportunities for nonambiguous pronoun use. Cente…
Document Structure
We argue the case for abstract document structure as a separate descriptive level in the analysis and generation of written texts. The purpose of this representation is to mediate between the message of a text (i.e., its discourse structure) and its physical presentation (i.e., its organization into graphical constituents like sections, paragraphs, sentences, bulleted lists, figures, and footnotes). Abstract document structure can be seen as an e…
Effects of CSCW on organizations
The use of the definite and indefinite articles by Italian preschool children
In deciding whether to use a definite or indefinite referring expression a speaker must apply a pragmatic rule: the definite article is usually appropriate if the listener is already familiar with the referent, and the indefinite article if not. Several studies have investigated at what age this rule is mastered by children. The most satisfactory procedure so far adopted is a task in which the subject must narrate a pictorially-presented story to…
Some criticisms of Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson on turn taking
By 'turn taking' we mean the coordination of the activities of speaking and listening in a conversation so that at any given moment there is only one speaker. Over the last fifteen hears this topic has attracted much interest. It has been investigated in two ways: first, by analyzing transcriptions of naturally occurring conversations; and second, by analyzing video-recordings, with an emphasis on the role played by nonverbal signals. The first o…
Mutual Intention
This paper takes as its starting point the problem of characterizing, in a precise way, situations in which two people collaborate to achieve a common goal. It is suggested that collaboration is normally based on an apparently paradoxical state of mind which I call “mutual intention”. Mutual intention is a concept belonging to the same family as Lewis's and Schiffer's “mutual knowledge”. These concepts have the paradoxical feature that they requi…
The organisation of purposeful dialogues
Planting Corn Belt Culture: The Impress of the Upland Southerner and Yankee in the Old Northwest
Journal Article Planting Corn Belt Culture: The Impress of the Upland Southerner and Yankee in the Old Northwest. By Richard Lyle Power. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1953. xvi + 196 pp. Illustrations, maps, and index. $2.00, paper cover.) Get access Everett Dick Everett Dick Union College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 41, Issue 1, June 1954, Pages 118–119…
Planting Corn Belt Culture: The Impress of the Upland Southerner and Yankee in the Old Northwest
Essays in American Economic History
Essays in American Economic History. By Fritz Redlich. (New York: G. E. Stechert & Company, 1944. v + 199 pp. Appendixes and bibliography. $2.00.) Get access Richard L. Power Richard L. Power Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 31, Issue 2, September 1944, Page 312, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893470 Published: 01 September 1944
David Dale Owen: Pioneer Geologist of the Middle West. Indiana Historical Collections. Vol. XXVII
David Dale Owen: Pioneer Geologist of the Middle West. By Walter Brookfield Hendrickson. Indiana Historical Collections. Vol. XXVII (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1943. xii +137 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index.) Get access Richard Lyle Power Richard Lyle Power St. Lawrence University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 31, Issue 1, June 1944, …
A Crusade to Extend Yankee Culture 1820-1865
Home Missions on the American Frontier
Some Missions on the American Frontier. Colin B. Goodykoontz. (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1939. 460 pp. Bibliography. $3.50.) Get access Richard L. Power Richard L. Power St. Lawrence University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 27, Issue 1, June 1940, Pages 103–104, https://doi.org/10.2307/1896590 Published: 01 June 1940
Wet Lands and the Hoosier Stereotype
Journal Article Wet Lands and the Hoosier Stereotype Get access Richard Lyle Power Richard Lyle Power Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 22, Issue 1, June 1935, Pages 33–48, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897053 Published: 01 June 1935
Optimizing Referential Coherence in Text Generation
This article describes an implemented system which uses centering theory for planning of coherent texts and choice of referring expressions. We argue that text and sentence planning need to be driven in part by the goal of maintaining referential continuity and thereby facilitating pronoun resolution: Obtaining a favorable ordering of clauses, and of arguments within clauses, is likely to increase opportunities for nonambiguous pronoun use. Cente…
Some criticisms of Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson on turn taking
By 'turn taking' we mean the coordination of the activities of speaking and listening in a conversation so that at any given moment there is only one speaker. Over the last fifteen hears this topic has attracted much interest. It has been investigated in two ways: first, by analyzing transcriptions of naturally occurring conversations; and second, by analyzing video-recordings, with an emphasis on the role played by nonverbal signals. The first o…
The organisation of purposeful dialogues
Generating Numerical Approximations
We describe a computational model for planning phrases like “more than a quarter” and “25.9 per cent” which describe proportions at different levels of precision. The model lays out the key choices in planning a numerical description, using formal definitions of mathematical form (e.g., the distinction between fractions and percentages) and roundness adapted from earlier studies. The task is modeled as a constraint satisfaction problem, with solu…
Composing Questions through Conceptual Authoring
This article describes a method for composing fluent and complex natural language questions, while avoiding the standard pitfalls of free text queries. The method, based on Conceptual Authoring, is targeted at question-answering systems where reliability and transparency are critical, and where users cannot be expected to undergo extensive training in question composition. This scenario is found in most corporate domains, especially in applicatio…
Document Structure
We argue the case for abstract document structure as a separate descriptive level in the analysis and generation of written texts. The purpose of this representation is to mediate between the message of a text (i.e., its discourse structure) and its physical presentation (i.e., its organization into graphical constituents like sections, paragraphs, sentences, bulleted lists, figures, and footnotes). Abstract document structure can be seen as an e…
Mutual Intention
This paper takes as its starting point the problem of characterizing, in a precise way, situations in which two people collaborate to achieve a common goal. It is suggested that collaboration is normally based on an apparently paradoxical state of mind which I call “mutual intention”. Mutual intention is a concept belonging to the same family as Lewis's and Schiffer's “mutual knowledge”. These concepts have the paradoxical feature that they requi…
Wet Lands and the Hoosier Stereotype
Journal Article Wet Lands and the Hoosier Stereotype Get access Richard Lyle Power Richard Lyle Power Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 22, Issue 1, June 1935, Pages 33–48, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897053 Published: 01 June 1935
A Crusade to Extend Yankee Culture 1820-1865
Home Missions on the American Frontier
Some Missions on the American Frontier. Colin B. Goodykoontz. (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1939. 460 pp. Bibliography. $3.50.) Get access Richard L. Power Richard L. Power St. Lawrence University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 27, Issue 1, June 1940, Pages 103–104, https://doi.org/10.2307/1896590 Published: 01 June 1940
Essays in American Economic History
Essays in American Economic History. By Fritz Redlich. (New York: G. E. Stechert & Company, 1944. v + 199 pp. Appendixes and bibliography. $2.00.) Get access Richard L. Power Richard L. Power Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 31, Issue 2, September 1944, Page 312, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893470 Published: 01 September 1944
David Dale Owen: Pioneer Geologist of the Middle West. Indiana Historical Collections. Vol. XXVII
David Dale Owen: Pioneer Geologist of the Middle West. By Walter Brookfield Hendrickson. Indiana Historical Collections. Vol. XXVII (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1943. xii +137 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index.) Get access Richard Lyle Power Richard Lyle Power St. Lawrence University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 31, Issue 1, June 1944, …
Planting Corn Belt Culture: The Impress of the Upland Southerner and Yankee in the Old Northwest
Journal Article Planting Corn Belt Culture: The Impress of the Upland Southerner and Yankee in the Old Northwest. By Richard Lyle Power. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1953. xvi + 196 pp. Illustrations, maps, and index. $2.00, paper cover.) Get access Everett Dick Everett Dick Union College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 41, Issue 1, June 1954, Pages 118–119…
Planting Corn Belt Culture: The Impress of the Upland Southerner and Yankee in the Old Northwest
The organisation of purposeful dialogues
Mutual Intention
This paper takes as its starting point the problem of characterizing, in a precise way, situations in which two people collaborate to achieve a common goal. It is suggested that collaboration is normally based on an apparently paradoxical state of mind which I call “mutual intention”. Mutual intention is a concept belonging to the same family as Lewis's and Schiffer's “mutual knowledge”. These concepts have the paradoxical feature that they requi…
The use of the definite and indefinite articles by Italian preschool children
In deciding whether to use a definite or indefinite referring expression a speaker must apply a pragmatic rule: the definite article is usually appropriate if the listener is already familiar with the referent, and the indefinite article if not. Several studies have investigated at what age this rule is mastered by children. The most satisfactory procedure so far adopted is a task in which the subject must narrate a pictorially-presented story to…
Some criticisms of Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson on turn taking
By 'turn taking' we mean the coordination of the activities of speaking and listening in a conversation so that at any given moment there is only one speaker. Over the last fifteen hears this topic has attracted much interest. It has been investigated in two ways: first, by analyzing transcriptions of naturally occurring conversations; and second, by analyzing video-recordings, with an emphasis on the role played by nonverbal signals. The first o…
Effects of CSCW on organizations
Document Structure
We argue the case for abstract document structure as a separate descriptive level in the analysis and generation of written texts. The purpose of this representation is to mediate between the message of a text (i.e., its discourse structure) and its physical presentation (i.e., its organization into graphical constituents like sections, paragraphs, sentences, bulleted lists, figures, and footnotes). Abstract document structure can be seen as an e…
Optimizing Referential Coherence in Text Generation
This article describes an implemented system which uses centering theory for planning of coherent texts and choice of referring expressions. We argue that text and sentence planning need to be driven in part by the goal of maintaining referential continuity and thereby facilitating pronoun resolution: Obtaining a favorable ordering of clauses, and of arguments within clauses, is likely to increase opportunities for nonambiguous pronoun use. Cente…
Composing Questions through Conceptual Authoring
This article describes a method for composing fluent and complex natural language questions, while avoiding the standard pitfalls of free text queries. The method, based on Conceptual Authoring, is targeted at question-answering systems where reliability and transparency are critical, and where users cannot be expected to undergo extensive training in question composition. This scenario is found in most corporate domains, especially in applicatio…
Generating Numerical Approximations
We describe a computational model for planning phrases like “more than a quarter” and “25.9 per cent” which describe proportions at different levels of precision. The model lays out the key choices in planning a numerical description, using formal definitions of mathematical form (e.g., the distinction between fractions and percentages) and roundness adapted from earlier studies. The task is modeled as a constraint satisfaction problem, with solu…
Hedging and rounding in numerical expressions
Previous accounts of hedges assume that they cause language to become vague or fuzzy (Lakoff 1973); however, hedges can actually sharpen numerical concepts by giving explicit information about approximation, especially where bare numbers appear misleadingly round or precise. They can also tell hearers about the direction of approximation (greater or less than). This article provides a first empirical account of interactions between hedging and ro…
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