This paper describes a series of experiments aimed at producing a bot tom-up parser that will produce partial parses suitable for use in robust interpretation and still be reasonably efficient. In the course of these experiments, we improved parse times by a factor of 18 over our first a t tempt, ending with a system that was twice as fast as our previous parser, which relied on strong top-down...

All sound separation systems based on perception assume a bottom-up or Marr-like view of the world. Sound is processed by a cochlear model, passed to an analysis system, grouped into objects, and then passed to higher level processing systems. The information flow is strictly bottom up, with no information flowing down from higher level expectations. Is this the right approach? This paper summa...