Yorick Wilks

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yorick Wilks is involved.

Title

Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues

Edited by Yorick Wilks

What will it be like to admit Artificial Companions into our society? How will they change our relations with each other? How important will they be in the emotional and practical lives of their owners – since we know that people became emotionally dependent even on simple devices like the… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 8] 2010. xxii, 315 pp.

Articles (18) | Order by:

Wilks, Yorick, Micah Clark, Tomas By, Adam Dalton and Ian Perera 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

Wilks, Yorick 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

Catizone, Roberta, Simon F. Worgan, Yorick Wilks, Alexiei Dingli and Weiwei Cheng 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

Peltu, Malcom and Yorick Wilks 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

Wilks, Yorick 2010 Corpus linguistics and computational linguistics The Bootcamp Discourse and Beyond, Worlock Pope, Caty (ed.), pp. 408–411 | Article

Wilks, Yorick 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

Wilks, Yorick 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

Wilks, Yorick 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

Wilks, Yorick, Nick Webb, Andrea Setzer, Mark Hepple and Roberta Catizone 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

Wilks, Yorick 2000 Margaret Masterman Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and biographies of pioneers, Hutchins, John W. (ed.), pp. 279–298 | Article

Wilks, Yorick and Mark Stevenson 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

Wilks, Yorick 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

Wilks, Yorick, John Barnden and Jin Wang 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

Wilks, Yorick 1992 Where am I coming from: The reversibility of analysis and generation in natural language processing Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 613–624 | Article

Wilks, Yorick and Chris Cunningham 1986 A purported theory of relevance Language and Discourse: Test and Protest, Mey, Jacob L. (ed.), pp. 383–418 | Article

Wilks, Yorick 1985 Realistic and Unrealistic Linguistic Programmes ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 67/68, pp. 247–255 | Article

Wilks, Yorick 1979 “Knowledge” in Language Understanding - How much do we need? ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 43, pp. 75–82 | Article

Wilks, Yorick 1978 Review of Schank (1975): Conceptual Information Processing Studies in Language 2:3, pp. 397–412 | Review