Longbow research papers, technical reports and manuals.

The first paper listed below, A Developer's Guide to the Longbow Discourse Planning System , is the main source of documentation for using the Longbow system. Users should consult this document to determine how to obtain, install and utilize the Longbow implementation.

The last paper listed below, Decomposition and Causality in Partial-Order Planning, is the principle description of the DPOCL algorithm. A longer version of this paper is currently being completed and will be listed here when available.

For more information on the DPOCL algorithm, see the description of DPOCL available on the web.

• A Developer's Guide to the Longbow Discourse Planning System by R. Michael Young. An Intelligent Systems Program Technical Report.

• Towards a Principled Representation of Discourse Plans. by R. Michael Young, Johanna D. Moore and Martha E. Pollack. In the proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference of the Cognitive Science Society , Atlanta, GA, 1994. Also appears as An Intelligent Systems Program Technical Report.

• DPOCL: A Principled Approach to Discourse Planning, by R. Michael Young and Johanna D. Moore. In the Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Text Generation, Kennebunkport, ME, 1994.

• Does Discourse Planning Require a Special Purpose Planner? by R. Michael Young and Johanna D. Moore. In the proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Planning for Inter-Agent Communication, Seattle, WA, 1994.

• The Role of Plans in Task-Related Discourse by R. Michael Young, Submitted to the AAAI Spring Symposium on Extending Theories of Action.

• Characterizing Formal Properties of Discourse Planning Systems by R. Michael Young, Unpublished.

• Decomposition and Causality in Partial-Order Planning. by R. Michael Young, Martha E. Pollack and Johanna D. Moore. In The Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Planning Systems, Chicago, IL, 1994. Also appears as An Intelligent Systems Program Technical Report.

The initial development of Longbow was supported by the Office of Naval Research Cognitive and Neural Sciences Division (Grant Number N00 014-91-J-1694) and funding from the DoD FY92 Augmentation of Awards for Science and Engineering Research (ASSERT).

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