Curriculum Vitae

Stanley Peters
Stanford University

Linguistics Department
Building 460
Stanford, CA 94305-2150

Telephone:	(650) 724-3903
Fax:	(650) 723-5666

Center for the Study of
Language and Information (CSLI)
Ventura Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-4115

Telephone:	(650) 725-2318
Fax:	(650) 723-0758

Personal Data

Born:	7 December 1941 in Houston, Texas
Marital Staus:	Married (Kathleen Much)
Children:	Four (Craig, Rebecca, Daniel, Jonathan)
Home Address:	128 Hillside Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Telephone:	(650) 854-8968

Education

1963	S.B. in Mathematics
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Academic Positions

1983-	Stanford University, Professor of Linguistics
1996-2002	Chair of Department of Linguistics
1987-1990	Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information (Associate Director 1983-1984)
1966-1983	University of Texas at Austin
	Assistant Professor (1966-1970)
	Associate Professor (1970-1975)
	Professor (1975-1983)
	Chairman of Department of Linguistics (1977-1981)
	Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Science (1978-1983)

Visiting Positions

Fall 1985	Tel-Aviv University, Visiting Professor
Summer 1983	University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Professor
Summer 1981	Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex,
	Visiting Researcher
Summer 1971	University of California, Santa Cruz, Visiting Associate Professor

Other Professional Duties

Currently	Linguistics Editor of Journal of Logic, Language and Information
Currently	Editorial Board of International Journal of Foundations of Com puter Science
1970-1994	Executive Editorial Committee of Linguistics and Philosophy
1976-1977	Associate Editorial Board of Linguistic Inquiry
1972-1976	Member of Mathematical Social Science Board
Spring 1972	Research Group for Quantitative Linguistics, Stockholm
1965, 1967	Summer Research Workshops in Mathematical Linguistics
1968, 1969	conducted by Mathematical Social Science Board
1972, 1974, 1975

Grants & Contracts

1998-1999	NTT-CS ``Evaluation of Concept Bases''
1996-1998	NTT-AT ``Information Mapping for Associative Information Retrieval''
1996-2000	NSF Grant No. IST 95-13647 ``The Dynamics of Information: Polyadic Quantification and Reciprocals''
1994-1996	NSF Grant No. SBR 93-17371 ``A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Syntax and Semantics of Reciprocal Constructions''
1991-1998	Japan MITI ``Inference Mechanisms for Situated Agents''
1992	KDD ``Prosit as an Environment for Specification, Design, Synthesis, and Validation of Communications Protocols''
1983-1986	NSF Grant No. IST 83-14396 (with R. W. Ritchie and W. Marsh) "Toward Automated Natural-Language Processing: Phrase-linking Grammars for Syntax and Semantics"
1983-1985	System Development Foundation (with K. J. Barwise and J. R. Perry), "Situation Semantics for Natural and Programming Languages"
1982-1983	NSF Grant No. IST 81-18393 (with R. W. Ritchie and W. Marsh), Phrase-linking Grammars for the Syntax and Semantics of Natural Languages: Computational Complexity and Parallel Implementation of Parsing and Interpretation"
1982	System Development Foundation (with J. A. W. Kamp), ``Meaning and Cognition"
1981-1983	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant No. 81-4-14 to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
1977-1985	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grants Nos. 77-10-11, 79-6-4, and 82-6-6 (with P. B. Gough), ``Conferences in Cognitive Science," ``Training Program in Cognitive Science," and ``Center for Cognitive Science"
1976-1981	NSF Grant No. BNS 76-20307 (with L. Karttunen), ``Model-theoretic Semantics for Transformational Syntax"
1972-1974	NSF Grant No. GS-32144, ``Theoretical Investigation of Transformational Grammar"
1969-1971	NSF Grant No. GS-2468 (with E. Bach), ``Theory of Transformational Grammar"

Current Research Interests

	Situation Theory and Situation Semantics
	Theory of Information Content
	Mathematical Properties of Grammars
	Parallel Processing and Cooperative Software

Courses Taught

	Introductory and Advanced Syntactic Theory
	Introductory Phonological Theory
	English Syntax and Phonology
	Semantics and Pragmatics
	Montague Grammar
	Situation Semantics
	Semantics and Logic
	Undergraduate Introduction to Linguistics
	Mathematical Linguistics
	Formal Languages, Automata, and Computation

Publications of Stanley Peters

Works in Preparation

"Situation Semantics"

Works in Press

"The Computation of Meaning." To appear in Aspects of Computational Linguistics: Syntax, Semantics, Phonetics, ed. J.A.W. Kamp and C. Rohrer.

Works Published

	"Query Translation Method for Cross Language Information Retrieval" (with Hiroshi Masuichi, Raymond Flournoy, and Stefan Kaufmann). In Proceedings of the Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval, MT Summit VII Singapore. 1999. pp. 30-34.
	"Information Retrieval based on Domain-Specific Word Associations" (with Yasuhiro Takayama, Raymond Flournoy, and Stefan Kaufmann). In Proceedings of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Waterloo, Canada. August 1999.
	"An Information Retrieval System Based on Word Associations: InfoMap" [in Japanese] (with Yasuhiro Takayama, Raymond Flournoy, and Stefan Kaufmann). In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Fundamental Infology, Information Processing Society of Japan 1999. pp. 1-8.
	"Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Some Methods and Tools" (with Raymond Flournoy and Hiroshi Masuichi). In TWLT 14 Language Technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval, ed. D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong and K. Netter. Universiteit Twente: Enschede, The Netherlands. 1998. pp. 79-83.
	"Personalization and Users' Semantic Expectations" (with Raymond Flournoy, Ryan Ginstrom, Ken-ichi Imai, Stefan Kaufmann, Hinrich SchÜutze, and Yasuhiro Takayama). In ACM SIGIR'98 Workshop on Query Input and User Expectations, Melbourne, Australia. August, 1998.
	"Team Sicily" (with John Fry and Lyen Huang). In RoboCup-97: Robot Soccer World Cup I Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 1395, ed. Hiroaki Kitano. Springer-Verlag. 1998. pp. 450-457.
	"Reciprocal expressions and the concept of reciprocity" (with Mary Dalrymple, Makoto Kanazawa, Yookyung Kim, and Sam Mchombo). Linguistics and Philosophy 21: (1998) 159-210.
	"Some Lessons from Programming Situated Agents in Gaea" (with Ryan Houlette and Lyen Huang). In Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Models for Software Architecture Tsukuba, Japan, October 20-12, 1997.
	"Robocup-97 Simulator Track: Team Sicily" (with Lyen Huang, John Fry, Ryan Houlette, and Stefan Kaufmann). In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on RoboCup, IJCAI-97 Nagoya, Japan, August 1997. pp. 151-2.
	"Communication Strategies for Cooperative Behavior" (with John Fry and Stefan Kaufmann). In Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Models for Software Architecture Kyoto, Japan, December 9-10, 1996. pp. 27-36.
	Semantic Ambiguity and Underspecification, ed. with K. van Deemter. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1996, xxiii + 272.
	"Real-world applications for situated agents" (with John Fry). In Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Models for Software Architecture Tokyo, Japan, October 19-20, 1995.
	"Semantic and pragmatic context-dependence: The case of reciprocals" (with Yookyung Kim). In Proceedings of the Fifth Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference: SALT V, ed. T. Galloway and M. Simons, Ithaca: Cornell U. 1995.
	"Some prospects for linguistic semantics." In Linguistics in the Morning Calm, 3, ed.\ I.-H.~Lee.\ Seoul: Hanshin, 1995, 271-286.
	"What do Reciprocals Mean?" (With Mary Dalrymple, Makoto Kanazawa and Sam Mchombo). In Proceedings Of The Fourth Semantics And Linguistic Theory Conference: Salt Iv, Ed. M. Harvey and L. Santelmann, Ithaca: Cornell U. 1994, 61-78. Also Xerox Technical Report Istl-Nltt-1994-05-01.
	"Semantic Similarities and Syntactic Contrasts Between Chichewa and English Reciprocals" (With Mary Dalrymple and Sam Mchombo). Linguistic Inquiry. 25: (1994) 145-163.
	Situation Theory and Its Applications, Volume3, Ed. with P. Aczel, D. Israel and Y. Katagiri. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1993, Xi + 416.
	Remarks On New Challenges of Multidisciplinary Technology. In K. Imai (Ed.) New Techno-Economic Paradigm for the 21st Century: The Age Of New Engineering. Stanford Japan Center. Research Publication Vol. 1, No. 1. 1992. Pp. 57-65.
	"New Directions for Linguistics for the 21st Century" (With F. Kiefer, W. Labov and C. Lee). Korea Journal 32: (1992) 7-22.
	"Communication and Inference Through Situations" (With Hideyuki Nakashima and Hinrich SchÜtze). In Proceedings Of The 12th International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence, 1991, 76-81.
	"Resolving Translation Mismatches With Information Flow" (With Megumi Kameyama and Ryo Ochitani). In Proceedings of The 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Berkeley, Calif., 1991, 193-200.
	"The Absorption Principle and E-Type Anaphora" (With Mark Gawron And John Nerbonne). In Situation Theory and Its Applications: Volume 2, Eds., J. Barwise, J. M. Gawron, G. Plotkin, and S. Tutiya. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1991, 335-362. Also Report No. Rr-91-12 the Deutsches Forschungsinstitut FÜr KÜnstliche Intelligenz (Dfki), UniversitÄt Des Saarlandes, SaarbrÜcken; And Report No. CSLI-91-153.
	"Intelligent Language Processing." Journal of Japan Society For Artificial Intelligence 6: (1991) 2-13.
	Anaphora and Quantification in Situation Semantics (With Mark Gawron). Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1990.
	"Some Puzzles About Pronouns" (With Mark Gawron). In Situation Theory and Its Applications, Eds. R. Cooper, K. Mukai, And J. Perry. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1990, 395-432.
	"Towards a Computational Interpretation of Situation Theory" (With Hideyuki Nakashima, Hiroyuki Suzuki and Per-Kristian Halvorsen). In Proceedings of the International Conference On Fifth Generation Computer Systems 1988, Icot, 1988, 489-498.
	"What is Mathematical Linguistics?" In The Formal Complexity of Natural Language, Ed. Walter J. Savitch Et Al. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1987, 1-18. Also in Report to NSF On the Theory Of Transformational Grammar, Gs-2468. Dept. of Linguistics, University Of Texas At Austin, 1971, 147-70.
	"On Some Formal Properties of Metarules" (With H. Uszkoreit). In The Formal Complexity of Natural Language, Ed. Walter J. Savitch Et Al. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1987, 227-50. Also in Linguistics and Philosophy 9 (1986): 477-94; and Report No. CSLI-85-43.
	"Cross-Serial Dependencies in Dutch" (With J. Bresnan, R. M. Kaplan, and A. Zaenen). In The Formal Complexity of Natural Language, Ed. Walter J. Savitch Et Al. Dordrecht: Reidel, 286-319. Also In Linguistic Inquiry 13 (1982): 613-35.
	Report of Workshop On Information and Representation, Ed. with B. H. Partee and R. Thomason. Stanford University, 1985, Iii + 147.
	"The Situation in Question." In Papers From the Parasession On Nondeclaratives, Ed. R. Schneider, K. Tuite, and R. Chametzky. Chicago Linguistics Society, 1982, 237-43.
	"Introduction" (With E. Saarinen). In Processes, Beliefs, And Questions, Ed. S. Peters and E. Saarinen . Dordrecht: Reidel, 1982, Vii-Xxxi.
	Processes, Beliefs, and Questions, Ed. With E. Saarinen. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1982, Xxxi + 231.
	"Comments On `Learnability, Restrictiveness, and the Evaluation Metric'." In The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition, Ed. C. L. Baker and J. J. Mccarthy. Cambridge, Mass.: Mit Press, 1981, 22-29.
	Introduction to Montague Semantics (With D. Dowty And R. Wall). Dordrecht: Reidel, 1981, Xi + 313.
	"Syntax of Human Languages in the Light of Mathematical Logic." Journal of Linguistic Calculus (1980): 63-79.
	"Interrogative Quantifiers" (With L. Karttunen). In Time, Tense, and Quantifiers, Ed. C. Rohrer. TÜbingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1980, 181-205.
	"Conventional Implicature" (With L. Karttunen). In Syntax And Semantics, Vol. 11: Presupposition, Ed. C.-K. Oh and D. Dinneen. New York: Academic Press, 1979, 1-56.
	"What Do Questions Mean?" Texas Linguistic Forum 13 (1979): 86-95.
	"A Truth-Conditional Formulation of Karttunen's Account Of Presupposition." Synthese 40 (1979): 301-16.
	"In Consequence of Speaking." In Basic Problems in Methodology and Linguistics, Ed. R. E. Butts and J. Hintikka. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1977, 283-97.
	"Requiem for Presupposition" (With L. Karttunen). In Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Ed. K. Whistler Et Al. Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1977, 360-71.
	"An Analysis Procedure for Transformational Grammars." In Papers in Computational Linguistics. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1977, 125-27.
	"What Indirect Questions Conventionally Implicate" (With L. Karttunen). In Papers From the Twelfth Regional Meeting, Ed. S. Mufwene, C. Walker, and S. Steever. Chicago Linguistics Society, 1976, 351-68.
	"Conventional Implicature in Montague Grammar" (With Lauri Karttunen). In Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of The Berkeley Linguistics Society, Ed. C. Cogen Et Al. Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1975, 266-78.
	"Presuppositions and Conversation." Texas Linguistic Forum 2 (1975): 122-34.
	"On Restricting Deletion Transformations." In The Formal Analysis of Natural Languages-Proceedings of the First International Conference, Ed. M. Gross, M. Halle, and M. P. SchÜtzenberger. Mouton, 1973, 171-88.
	"Nonfiltering and Local-Filtering Transformational Grammars" (With R. W. Ritchie). In Approaches to Natural Language, Ed. K. J. J. Hintikka, J. M. E. Moravcsik, and P. Suppes. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1973, 180-94.
	"On the Generative Power of Transformational Grammars" (With R. W. Ritchie). Information Sciences 6 (1973): 49-83. Cited In "Citation Classics" In Current Contents, Social & Behavioral Sciences 19 (1987): 15, and in Current Contents, Arts & Humanities 9 (1987): 15.
	"The Projection Problem: How is a Grammar to be Selected?" In Goals of Linguistic Theory, Ed. S. Peters. Prentice-Hall, 1972, 171-88.
	Goals of Linguistic Theory, Ed. Prentice-Hall, 1972, Viii + 227.
	"Context-Sensitive Immediate Constituent Analysis: Context-Free Languages Revisited" (With R. W. Ritchie). Mathematical Systems Theory 6 (1972): 324-33.
	"The Use of Context-Sensitive Rules in Immediate Constituent Analysis." Statistical Methods in Linguistics 7 (1971): 21-31.
	"On Restricting the Base Component of Transformational Grammars" (with R. W. Ritchie). Introduction and Control 18 (1971): 483-501.
	"Pseudo-Cleft Sentences" (With Emmon Bach). Report to NSF On the Theory of Transformational Grammar, Gs-2368. Department Of Linguistics, University of Texas At Austin, 1971, 171-90.
	"Why There Are Many `Universal' Bases." Papers In Linguistics 2 (1970): 27-43.
	"On the Complexity of Language Processing By the Brain." In Information Processing in the Nervous System, Ed. K. N. Leibovic. Springer-Verlag, 1969, 51-83.
	"A Note On the Universal Base Hypothesis" (With R. W. Ritchie). Journal of Linguistics 5 (1969): 150-52.
	"Symmetric Predicates and Phrasal Conjunction" (With George Lakoff). In Modern Studies in English, Ed. D. Reidel and S. Schane. Prentice-Hall, 1969, 113-42.
	"Ambiguity, Completeness, and Restriction Problems in The Syntax-Based Approach to Computational Linguistics" (With R. Tabory). Linguistics 45 (1969): 54-76.
	"Mathematical Linguistics." In Mathematics of the Decision Sciences, Part 2, Ed. G. Dantzig and A. Veinott. American Mathematical Society, 1968, 353-68.
	"Can One Instruct Computers in English?: A Feasibility Study Concerning the Use of English in User/Computer Communication" (With R. Tabory). Ibm Technical Memorandum No. Tm 48.67.003, 1967.
	"A Note On Ordered Phrase-Structure Grammars." Mathematical Linguistics and Automatic Translation, Report No. Nsf-17. Harvard Computation Laboratory, 1966, Viii-1-Viii-19.