Jerry Robert Hobbs
Jerry Hobbs investigates how knowledge and reasoning can help computers interpret language and connected text. Hobbs, Donald E. Walker, and Robert A. Amsler co-authored Natural Language Access to Structured Text. The paper studies logical representations for document passages and natural language requests to those documents. Hobbs, Mark Stickel, Paul Martin, and Douglas Edwards co-authored Interpretation as Abduction. Their TACITUS research treats discourse interpretation as inference to an explanation of why sentences would be true.
- Works
- 246
- Citations
- 12,529
- h-index
- 40
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1982
Access to structured text
Hobbs, Donald E. Walker, and Robert A. Amsler co-authored Natural Language Access to Structured Text. The paper studies logical representations for document passages and natural language requests to those documents.
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1988
Interpretation as abduction
Hobbs, Mark Stickel, Paul Martin, and Douglas Edwards co-authored Interpretation as Abduction. Their TACITUS research treats discourse interpretation as inference to an explanation of why sentences would be true.
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1992
Research recognition
AAAI elected Jerry Robert Hobbs as a Fellow in 1992.
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As of October 2026
Knowledge and local pragmatics
The shared TACITUS work uses commonsense and domain knowledge to address reference, compound nouns, ambiguity, and metonymy. TACITUS uses examples and an inference framework.
Sources and credits
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