I'm currently writing a book about the interface between language and
the sensorimotor system. Here's the most recent draft. (This file is likely to change quite regularly for a little while.)
I have taught a course based on this book; you can find presentations covering most topics on the course website.
Comments welcome on both book and course!
(For an uncompressed postscript version of the thesis, see here.)
(For an uncompressed PDF version of the thesis, see here.)
(To download the thesis a chapter at a time, see here.)
Edited collections
J Alexandersson and A Knott (eds): Proceedings of the 7th SigDIAL Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Sydney (2006).
A Knott and D Estival (eds): Proceedings of the Australasian
Language Technology Workshop 2003. University of Melbourne
(2003).
A Knott, T Sanders and J Oberlander (eds): special edition of
Cognitive Linguistics on Coherence Relations and Connectives:
Cognitive Linguistics 12(3) (2001).
R Schwitter, D Estival, C Paris and A Knott (eds): Proceedings of
the 2001 Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop. Macquarie
University, Sydney (2001).
Knott, A, Oberlander, J, Moore, S and Sanders, T (eds) Levels of
Representation in Discourse: International Workshop on Text
Representation. University of Edinburgh, UK (1999).
P Vlugter, A Knott, J McDonald, C Hall: Dialogue-based CALL: a case study on teaching pronouns. Computer-Assisted Language Learning 22(2):115-131 (2009).
H Walles, A Knott and A Robins: A model of cardinality blindness in inferotemporal cortex. Biological Cybernetics 98(5):427-437 (2008).
A Knott and P Vlugter: Multi-agent human-machine dialogue: issues in dialogue management and referring expression semantics. Artificial Intelligence 172:69-102 (2008).
A Knott: Review of 'Coherence in natural language: Data structures and applications', by Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson. Computational Linguistics 33:591--595 (2007).
L Earnshaw, S Fleming, V Weatherall and A Knott: Analysis of
errors made by learners of Mäori in an introductory university
course. Journal of Mäori and Pacific Development 5(2):31-47 (2004)
R Stevenson, A Knott, J Oberlander and S McDonald: Interpreting
pronouns and connectives: Interactions among focusing, thematic roles
and coherence relations. Language and Cognitive Processes 15(3):
225-262 (2000).
A Knott, I Bayard and P Vlugter: Multi-agent human-machine dialogue: issues
in dialogue management and referring expression semantics. In
Zhang, C, Guesgen, H and Yeap, W (eds) PRICAI 2004: Trends in
Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim Conference
on Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in AI
(pp872--881). A longer version of this paper is available as a technical report (OUCS-2004-05, Dept of Computer Science, University of
Otago).
P Vlugter, A Knott and V Weatherall: A human-machine dialogue system for
CALL. Proceedings of InSTIL/ICALL 2004: NLP and speech
technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems, Venice 2004,
pp215--218.
A Knott, I Bayard, S de Jager, L Smith, J Moorfield and R
O'Keefe: A
question-answering system for English and Mäori. Proceedings of the
Fifth Biannual Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert
Systems (ANNES), University of Otago, November 2001, pp223--228.
A Knott: Argument linking and spatial
cognition. Proceedings of SEMPRO 2001: Cognitively Plausible
Models of Semantic Processing. University of Edinburgh, July 2001.
C Lakeland and A Knott: POS tagging in statistical
parsing. Proceedings of the 2001 Australasian Natural Language
Processing Workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney, April 2001.
B Webber, Aravind Joshi and Alistair Knott: The Anaphoric Nature
of Certain Discourse Connectives. Proceedings of `Making Sense: From
Lexeme to Discourse', Groningen, The Netherlands, 2000 (to appear).
A Knott: An Algorithmic Framework
for Specifying the Semantics of Discourse Relations. Proceedings
of PACLING'99, the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics,
Waterloo, Canada, August 1999, pp29-39. (Note: this is a draft of the paper
published in Computational Intelligence; see above.)
B Webber, A Knott and A Joshi Multiple
Discourse Connectives in a Lexicalized Grammar for
Discourse. Third International Workshop on Computational
Semantics, Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 1999, pp309-325. (Note: this is
a draft of the paper in Bunt (ed) Computing Meaning vol II; see above.)
C Mellish, A Knott, J Oberlander and M O'Donnell, Experiments
using stochastic search for text planning. Proceedings of the
Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation,
Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada (August 1998).
C Mellish, M O'Donnell, J Oberlander and A Knott, An
architecture for opportunistic text generation. Proceedings of the
Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation,
Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada (August 1998).
J Oberlander, C Mellish, M O'Donnell and A Knott, Exploring
a Gallery with Intelligent Labels. In Proceedings
of the Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity
in Museums, pp153-161. Paris (September 1997).
A Knott, I Bayard, S de Jager, L Smith, R O'Keefe and J
Moorfield: Maori/English machine translation using HPSG. Paper
presented at the 2001 Conference of the New Zealand Linguistics
Society, University of Canterbury.
C Lakeland and A Knott: Statistical parsing. Poster presented at
the 2001 Conference of the New Zealand Linguistics Society, University
of Canterbury.
A Knott, New Strategies and Constraints in RST-Based Text
Planning. Master's thesis, Department of Artificial Intelligence,
University of Edinburgh (1991).