Yorick Wilks
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yorick Wilks plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1875-1792
Title
Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues
Edited by Yorick Wilks
[Natural Language Processing, 8] 2010. xxii, 315 pp.
Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Consciousness research | Philosophy
2014 CUBISM: Belief, anomaly and social constructs Mental Model Ascription by Intelligent Agents, McShane, Marjorie (ed.), pp. 388–403 | Article
We introduce the CUBISM system for the analysis and deep understanding of multi-participant dialogues. CUBISM brings together two typically separate forms of discourse analysis: semantic analysis and sociolinguistic analysis. In the paper proper, we describe and illustrate major components of the… read more
2012 Pragmatics and dialogue phenomena: Are they essentially connected? Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren, Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 113–120 | Article
I argue that the definition of ‘pragmatics’ has drifted a great deal since Morris, but that there is much to be said for retaining and emphasizing his original sense of relatedness to an utterer. I discuss the role of a computational modelling of dialogue within that core conception of pragmatics,… read more
2010 A world-hybrid approach to a conversational Companion for reminiscing about images Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 157–168 | Article
2010 Summary and discussion of the issues Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 259–286 | Article
The COMPANIONS project, which inspired this book, is studying conversational software-based artificial agents that will get to know their owners over a substantial period. These could be developed to advise, comfort and carry out a wide range of functions to support diverse personal and social… read more
2010 Corpus linguistics and computational linguistics The Bootcamp Discourse and Beyond, Worlock Pope, Caty (ed.), pp. 408–411 | Article
2010 Introducing artificial Companions Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 11–20 | Article
This introductory chapter, like the whole book itself, concerns a range of closely related topics: the possibility of machines having identifiable personalities, the possible future legal responsibilities of such companionable machines, and the design characteristics of such machines, including… read more
2010 On being a Victorian Companion Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 121–128 | Article
I have argued or suggested: – English Common Law already, in dogs, has a legal category of entities that are not human but are in some degree responsible for their actions and have “characters” that can be assessed. – Users may not want Companions prone to immediately expressed emotions and a… read more
2009 Ontotherapy, or how to stop worrying about what there is Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V: Selected papers from RANLP 2007, Nicolov, Nicolas, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
2004 Human dialogue modelling using machine learning Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III: Selected papers from RANLP 2003, Nicolov, Nicolas, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), pp. 17–28 | Article
2000 Margaret Masterman Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and biographies of pioneers, Hutchins, John W. (ed.), pp. 279–298 | Article
2000 Combining independent knowledge sources for word sense disambiguation Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Volume II: Selected papers from RANLP ’97, Nicolov, Nicolas and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), pp. 117–130 | Article
1996 Senses and texts Terminology, LSP and Translation: Studies in language engineering in honour of Juan C. Sager, Somers, Harold (ed.), pp. 205–220 | Article
1996 Your metaphor or mine: Belief ascription and metaphor interpretation Discourse and Meaning: Papers in honor of Eva Hajičová, Partee, Barbara H. and Petr Sgall (eds.), pp. 141–162 | Article
1986 A purported theory of relevance Language and Discourse: Test and Protest, Mey, Jacob L. (ed.), pp. 383–418 | Article
1985 Realistic and Unrealistic Linguistic Programmes ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 67/68, pp. 247–255 | Article
1978 Review of Schank (1975): Conceptual Information Processing Studies in Language 2:3, pp. 397–412 | Review