RESUME John O. Gurney, Jr. May 3, 1999 Computer Scientist Adelphi Laboratory Center, Adelphi, MD 20783 USA gurney@arl.mil EDUCATION Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974. Thesis: Rules of Acceptance and the Body of Scientific Knowledge Advisor: Fred Dretske M.A. Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972. M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1964. B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 1963. EXPERIENCE 1995 to present Computational Linguistics at ALC. PI for Natural Language and Virtual Reality Project. 1993 to 1995 Computational Linguistics at ALC. Research on discourse and pragmatics with U. of Maryland. 1992 to 1993 Computational Linguistics. Visiting Scientist at the Naval Research Lab AI Center. PUBLICATIONS Refereed Papers, Articles, and Abstracts ______________________________________ J. Gurney and E. Klipple, Composing Conceptual Structure for Spoken Natural Language in a Virtual Reality Environment, Proc. of Mind III, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland: Spatial Cognition, Dublin, August, 1998. J. Gurney, E. Klipple, and T. Gregory, The Spoken Language Navigation Task, Proc. of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Representations for Multi-Modal Human-Computer Interaction, Madison, July, 1998. E. Klipple and J. Gurney, Verb Modification and the Lexicon in the Natural Language and Virtual Reality System, Proc. of the Workshop on Lexical Semantic Systems, WLSS98, Pisa, April, 1998. J. Walrath, C. Voss and, J. Gurney, Towards a Hands-Free Interface: Tracking Natural Eye Movements During Discourse, Proc. of the 2nd Annual Fed Lab Symposium, College Park, February, 1998. D. Perzanowski and J. Gurney, The Functionality of It-clefts in Selected Discourses: The Message in The Medium, WORD, Volume 48, Number 2, 1997. J. Gurney, D. Perlis, and K. Purang, Interpreting Presuppositions Using Active Logic: From Contexts to Utterances, Computational Intelligence, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1997. C. Voss, J. Gurney, and J. Walrath, Exploration in a Large Corpus: Research on the Integration of Eye Gaze and Speech with Visual Information in a Virtual Reality System, Proc. of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium, Stanford, 1997. E. Klipple and J. Gurney, A Theory of Spatial Structure for Motion-Verb Phrases: From Lexical Structure to Meaning Representation (abstract), Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, 1997. J. Gurney, E. Klipple, and C. Voss, Talking about What We Think We See (Natural Language Processing for a Real-Time Virtual Environment), Proc. of the IEEE International Joint Symposium on Intelligence and Systems, Rockville, 1996. K. Purang, D. Perlis, and J. Gurney, Active Logic for Cancellation of Gricean Implicatures, Proc. of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium, Stanford, 1996. J. Gurney, D. Perlis, and K. Purang, Active Logic and Heim's Rules for Updating Discourse Context, Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Context in Natural Language Processing, Montreal, 1995. J. Gurney and M. Morreau, Presupposition and the Concept of a Nonmonotonic Discourse, Proc. of the Second Dutch-German Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Utrecht, 1995. D. Perzanowski and J. Gurney, The Message in the Medium (abstract), 40th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, Washington, DC, 1995. E. Marsh, K. Wauchope, and J. Gurney, Human-Machine Dialogue for Multi-Modal Decision Support Systems, Proc. of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium, Stanford, 1994. J. Gurney, Photofluidic Interface, Journal of Dynamic Systems, ASME, 1984. Laboratory and Internal Reports _______________________________________________ J. Gurney, Research in Natural Language Processing, ARL internal report, 1996. J. Gurney, A Natural Language Interface Generator for a Graphic Information System, (draft), 1996. Gurney, J., Marsh, E., and Wauchope K. (1992) Focus of Attention in Decision Support Systems, Proc. of the JDL 10th Annual Decision Aids Conference. J. Gurney, Implementing a Definite Clause Grammar for Parsing Surface Syntax, Harry Diamond Laboratories TM-88-13, February, 1989. J. Gurney, Fluidic North Seeker: A Preliminary Study Using the Laminar Jet Angular Rate Sensor with Air, report to sponsor, 1984. J. Gurney, Applications of TMATAC, a Set of Subroutines for Calculating with Acoustic Transmission Matrices, Harry Diamond Laboratories TM-86-3, February, 1986. J. Gurney, TMATAC: A Set of Acoustic Transmission Matrix Subroutines, Harry Diamond Laboratories TM-83-17, October, 1983. J. Gurney, A Preliminary Study of the Mechanism of Water-Entry Whip of 20 Degree Cone Nosed Models, Naval Ordnance Laboratory TR-66-148. J. Gurney, Model of Reserve Battery, HDL internal report, 1989. Patents Awarded _______________________________________________________________ J. Gurney, Photofluidic Audio Receiver; Patent was awarded in August, 1987. T. Driewiewski, K. Toda, and J. Gurney, Photofluidic Interface; Patent was awarded in April, 1985. Software ______________________________________________________________________ NLVR - the natural language network used for the NL and VR Project; the Logical Form Generator; the Navigation Expert; and other modules. DRT - a discourse representation builder. NL Generator - natural language interface for the Combat Information Processor. Object Oriented Map System - a prototype integrating quad trees with objects. DCG - a syntactic phrase structure parser. Unification Grammar - a syntactic parser the delivers quasi logical forms. TMATAC - a set of subroutines for (non-ideal) acoustic transmission modeling. Reserve Battery Model - transient fluid flows. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Recent Presentations to Professional Groups ___________________________________ NLVR FedLab Demonstration, 1999. Invited talk, "Interpretation of Spatial Navigation Imperatives", at NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, 1998. Professional Society Membership _______________________________________________ Association for Computational Linguistics, present member. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, present member. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, past member. American Philosophical Association, past member. Philosophy of Science Association, past member.