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For more information on precision content retrieval, knowledge representation, semantic networks, and structured conceptual taxonomies, see:

Woods, W. A., Stephen Green, Paul Martin, and Ann Houston, "Halfway to Question Answering," by Proceedings of the TREC-9 Conference, November, 13-16, 2000.

Woods, William A.,"Conceptual Indexing: Practical Large-Scale AI for Efficient Information Access," Invited talk at AAAI 2000, Proceedings AAAI 2000, Austin, TX, August 2, 2000.

Woods, William A., Lawrence A. Bookman, Ann Houston, Robert J. Kuhns, Paul Martin, and Stephen Green, "Linguistic Knowledge can Improve Information Retrieval," Proceedings of ANLP-2000, Seattle, WA, May 1-3, 2000, reprinted in Sun Labs' anniversary volume, Sun Microsystems Laboratories: The First Ten Years, 1991-2001. (Final version with author's introduction is available at: http://research.sun.com/features/tenyears/volcd/papers/woods.htm)

Woods, William A, "Aggressive Morphology for Robust Lexical Coverage," Proceedings of ANLP-2000, Seattle, WA, May 1-3, 2000, (a preliminary version: Technical Report SMLI TR-99-82, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA, December, 1999, is available online at: http://research.sun.com/techrep/1999/abstract-82.html)

Ambroziak, Jacek and William A. Woods, "Natural Language Technology in Precision Content Retrieval," proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications (NLP+IA 98), August 18-21, 1998, Moncton, New Brunswick, CANADA. (reprint available online at: http://research.sun.com/techrep/1998/abstract-69.html).

Woods, W. A., "Conceptual Indexing: a better way to organize knowledge," Technical Report SMLI TR-97-61, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA, April, 1997. (available online at: http://research.sun.com/techrep/1997/abstract-61.html).

Kuhns, Robert J., "A Survey of Information Retrieval Vendors," Technical Report SMLI TR-96-56, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA, October, 1996. (available online at: http://research.sun.com/techrep/1996/abstract-56.html).

Woods, W. A., "Finding Information on the Web: A Knowledge Representation Approach," presented at the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference, Boston, MA (December 1995) (For a summary, see: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/conferences/www95/woods.html)

Woods, W. A. and James Schmolze, "The KL-ONE Family," Computers & Mathematics with App.lications, Vol. 23, Nos. 2-5, (January-March, 1992), special issue on Semantic Networks in Artificial Intelligence , Part 1, pp. 133-177. Also reprinted in Fritz Lehmann (ed.), Semantic Networks in Artificial Intelligence, Pergamon Press, 1992, pp. 133-177.

Woods, W. A., "Understanding Subsumption and Taxonomy: A Framework for Progress," in John Sowa (ed.), Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge, San Mateo: Morgan Kaufmann, 1991, pp. 45-94.

Woods, W. A., "Important Issues in Knowledge Representation," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 74, No. 10 (October, 1986), pp. 1322-1334. Reprinted in Peter G. Raeth (ed.), Expert Systems: A Software Methodology for Modern App.lications, Los Alamitos:IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990, pp. 180-204.


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