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Thomas E Woolsey

William B Dolan

Christopher Brian Quirk

David Alexander Molnar

Christopher John Brockett

Robert Alexander Sim

Vikram Reddy Dendi

Pallavi Choudhury

Christopher Ian Charla

Scott Laufer

Noelle Mallory Sophy

Nicole Beaudry

A processing system is described which generates stimulus information (SI) having one or more stimulus components (SCs) selected from an inventory of such components. The processing system then presents the SI to a group of human recipients, inviting those recipients to provide linguistic descriptions of the SI. The linguistic information that is received thereby has an implicit link to the SCs. Further, each linguistic component is associated with at least one feature of a target environment, such as a target computer system. Hence, the linguistic information also maps to the features of the target environment. These relationships allow applications to use the linguistic information to interact with the target environment in different ways. In one case, the processing system uses a challenge-response authentication task presentation to convey the stimulus information to the recipients.

Generating stimuli for use in soliciting grounded linguistic information

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Thomas E Woolsey