Special Issue on Natural Language Processing and Understanding ============================================================== . FOREWORD ........................................................ 159 Hozumi TANAKA PAPERS ====== . A Preferential Constraint Satisfaction Technique for Natural Language Analysis ............................................... 161 Katashi NAGAO . cu-Prolog for Constraint-Based Natural Language Processing ...... 171 Hiroshi TSUDA . Japanese Sentence Generation Grammar Based on the Pragmatic Constraints ..................................................... 181 Kyoko KAI, Yuko DEN, Yasuharu DEN, Mika OBA, Jun-ichi NAKAMURA and Sho YOSHIDA . Multiple World Representation of Mental States for Dialogue Processing ...................................................... 192 Toru SUGIMOTO and Akinori YONEZAWA . A Logical Model for Plan Recognition and Belief Revision ........ 209 Katashi NAGAO . A Family of Generalized LR Parsing Algorithms Using Ancestors Table ........................................................ 218 Hozumi TANAKA, K.G.SURESH and Koichi YAMADA . A Method of Case Structure Analysis for Japanese Sentences Based on Examples in Case Frame Dictionary ............................... 227 Sadao KUROHASHI and Makoto NAGAO . Example-Based Word-Sense Disambiguation ......................... 240 Naohiko URAMOTO . A Transfer System Using Example-Based Approach .................. 247 Hideo WATANABE and Hiroshi MARUYAMA . Spoken Sentence Recognition Based on HMM-LR with Hybrid Language Modeling ........................................................ 258 Kenji KITA, Tsuyoshi MORIMOTO, Kazumi OHKURA, Shigeki SAGAYAMA and Yaneo YANO . ABSTRACTS (Trans. IEICE, Vol.J77-D-‡T, J77-D-‡U, No.2 in Japanese) ........................................................ 266 . IEICE TECHNICAL REPORTS/CONTENTS ................................ 276 * This contents of IEICE Technical Reports will be discontinued from the April issue, 1994.