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- Logics of Conversation (2005) (1596)
- Indirect Speech Acts (2001) (1378)
- Reference to abstract objects in discourse (1993) (1104)
- Temporal interpretation, discourse relations and commonsense entailment (1993) (453)
- Lexical Meaning in Context - A Web of Words (2011) (398)
- Metaphor in Discourse (1995) (295)
- Toward a Geometry of Common Sense: A Semantics and a Complete Axiomatization of Mereotopology (1995) (224)
- Subordinating and coordinating discourse relations (2005) (200)
- The Semantics and Pragmatics of Presupposition (1998) (169)
- Discourse Relations and Defeasible Knowledge (1991) (161)
- Commonsense Entailment: A Modal Theory of Non-monotonic Reasoning (1991) (142)
- Lexical Disambiguation in a Discourse Context (1995) (140)
- Segmented Discourse Representation Theory: Dynamic Semantics With Discourse Structure (2008) (127)
- A typology for attitude verbs and their anaphoric properties (1987) (113)
- Belief in discourse representation theory (1986) (108)
- A Typology and Discourse Semantics for Motion Verbs and Spatial PPs in French (1995) (105)
- Questions in Dialogue (1998) (102)
- Appraisal of Opinion Expressions in Discourse (2009) (99)
- Agreement, Disputes and Commitments in Dialogue (2009) (93)
- Discourse Structure and Dialogue Acts in Multiparty Dialogue: the STAC Corpus (2016) (83)
- Truth Conditional Discourse Semantics for Parentheticals (2000) (81)
- A default, truth conditional semantics for the progressive (1992) (79)
- Order independent and persistent typed default unification (1996) (77)
- An empirical resource for discovering cognitive principles of discourse organisation: the ANNODIS corpus (2012) (75)
- Interferring Discourse Relations in Context (1992) (73)
- A Type Composition Logic for Generative Lexicon (2013) (70)
- Discourse parallelism, ellipsis, and ambiguity (2001) (70)
- Distilling Opinion in Discourse: A Preliminary Study (2008) (68)
- A Computational Account of Syntactic, Semantic and Discourse Principles for Anaphora Resolution (1988) (61)
- Constrained Decoding for Text-Level Discourse Parsing (2012) (60)
- Free Choice Permission is Strong Permission (2005) (60)
- Language Games (2016) (59)
- How much progress have we made on RST discourse parsing? A replication study of recent results on the RST-DT (2017) (59)
- Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts (2016) (49)
- Were, Would, Might and a Compositional Account of Counterfactuals (2007) (49)
- Prima facie obligation (1996) (48)
- Discourse parsing for multi-party chat dialogues (2015) (48)
- The Metaphysics of Words in Context (1999) (48)
- A Dependency Perspective on RST Discourse Parsing and Evaluation (2018) (47)
- La SDRT: une approche de la cohérence du discours dans la tradition de la sémantique dynamique (2001) (46)
- Reference Manual for the Analysis and Annotation of Rhetorical Structure (2007) (46)
- Intentions and information in discourse (1994) (46)
- Intonation and Discourse: Biased Questions (2007) (43)
- Modality, Morality and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus (2009) (43)
- A Type Driven Theory of Predication with Complex Types (2008) (42)
- NEGATIVE BIAS IN POLAR QUESTIONS (2005) (42)
- Computational Intelligence for Knowledge-Based Systems Design (2010) (41)
- Common Ground, Corrections, and Coordination (2003) (40)
- Integer Linear Programming for Discourse Parsing (2016) (40)
- Discourse topic (2004) (40)
- How do Negation and Modality Impact on Opinions? (2012) (40)
- Modal Subordination in Japanese: Dynamics and Evidentiality (2006) (34)
- Self-Reference, Attitudes And Paradox (1989) (33)
- The Knower's Paradox and Representational Theories of Attitudes (1986) (33)
- Troubles on the right frontier (2008) (33)
- Annotation for and Robust Parsing of Discourse Structure on Unrestricted Texts (2007) (32)
- BUILDRS: An Implementation of DR Theory and LFG (1986) (32)
- Discourse Parallelism, Scope, and Ellipsis (1997) (32)
- From Contrastive to Abductive Explanations and Back Again (2020) (31)
- Formalization ov Coercions in Lexical Semantics (2013) (31)
- Types, meanings and coercions in lexical semantics (2015) (31)
- Preference Change (2015) (29)
- Modelling Strategic Conversation: model, annotation design and corpus (2012) (29)
- A Web of Words: Lexical Meaning in Context (2007) (28)
- Locating adverbials in discourse (2005) (28)
- Word Meaning and Commonsense Metaphysics (2005) (28)
- Prosody and the interpretation of tag questions (2007) (28)
- Supervaluations Debugged (2004) (27)
- Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics (1992) (26)
- Testing SDRT’s Right Frontier (2010) (26)
- Evidentiality and intensionality: Two uses of reportative constructions in discourse (2006) (25)
- La ressource ANNODIS, un corpus enrichi d'annotations discursives (2011) (25)
- A Semantics and Pragmatics for the Pluperfect (1993) (25)
- Setting the background in discourse (2007) (25)
- Developing a corpus of strategic conversation in The Settlers of Catan (2012) (24)
- Message Exchange Games in Strategic Contexts (2017) (24)
- Grounding Strategic Conversation: Using Negotiation Dialogues to Predict Trades in a Win-Lose Game (2013) (23)
- SDRT and Continuation Semantics (2010) (23)
- Measuring the Effect of Discourse Structure on Sentiment Analysis (2013) (23)
- Cognitive States, Discourse Structure and the Content of Dialogue (1999) (22)
- Integrating Type Theory and Distributional Semantics: A Case Study on Adjective–Noun Compositions (2016) (22)
- Une formalisation plus précise pour une annotation moins confuse: la relation d'Élaboration d'entité (2009) (22)
- New learning models for robust reference resolution (2007) (21)
- The syntax and semantics of locating adverbials (2001) (21)
- Commitments, Beliefs and Intentions in Dialogue (2008) (21)
- Expressivity and comparison of models of discourse structure (2013) (20)
- THINGS AND THEIR ASPECTS (2006) (20)
- Selectional restrictions, types and categories (2014) (18)
- Implicatures and discourse structure (2013) (18)
- A Formal Analysis of the French Temporal Connective 'alors' (2009) (17)
- Spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal locating adverbials in discourse (1995) (17)
- Commitments to Preferences in Dialogue (2011) (17)
- Common Sense Obligation (1997) (16)
- Ambiguity and Anaphora with Plurals in Discourse (2003) (16)
- Complex discourse units and their semantics (2011) (16)
- Discourse Structure and the Logic of Conversation (2000) (15)
- More Truths About Generic Truth (2013) (14)
- On Relating 'Why?' and 'Why Not?' Explanations (2020) (14)
- Unsupervised extraction of semantic relations using discourse cues (2014) (14)
- Data Programming for Learning Discourse Structure (2019) (14)
- Commonsense entailment: a conditional logic for some generics (1996) (13)
- Begging Questions, Their Answers and Basic Cooperativity (2011) (13)
- A Montagovian Treatment of Modal Subordination (2010) (13)
- Varieties of Discourse Structure in Dialogue (2000) (13)
- Modelling Strategic Conversation: the STAC project (2012) (12)
- A Presuppositional Account of Indexicals (2014) (11)
- Biased questions, intonation, and discourse (2010) (11)
- Logical Polysemy and Subtyping (2012) (11)
- Dynamic Discourse Semantics for Embedded Speech Acts (2006) (11)
- Evaluation in Discourse: a Corpus-Based Study (2016) (11)
- Shapes of Conversation and At-Issue Content (2016) (11)
- Weak Supervision for Learning Discourse Structure (2019) (11)
- Credibility and its Attacks (2014) (11)
- Intentions and Indormation in Discourse (1994) (11)
- Evénements, faits, propositions et anaphore évolutive (1997) (11)
- Implicatures in Discourse (2009) (11)
- Evaluating conversational success: Weighted Message Exchange Games (2019) (11)
- A Generalisation of Lexical Functions for Composition in Distributional Semantics (2015) (10)
- Transport-based Counterfactual Models (2021) (10)
- Strategic Conversations Under Imperfect Information: Epistemic Message Exchange Games (2018) (10)
- Dynamics of Public Commitments in Dialogue (2015) (9)
- Reasoning dynamically about what one says (2011) (9)
- Integrating Non-Linguistic Events into Discourse Structure (2015) (9)
- A logic of sights (2016) (8)
- Agreement and Disputes in Dialogue (2008) (8)
- When Nonmonotonicity Comes from Distances (1994) (8)
- Names and pops and discourse structure (2006) (8)
- Making the Right Commitments in Dialogue (2008) (8)
- Lexical ambiguity as type disjunction (2005) (8)
- Efficient Explanations for Knowledge Compilation Languages (2021) (8)
- Situations and events (1985) (8)
- Bridging (1998) (8)
- Adequate and fair explanations (2020) (7)
- Winning Strategies in Politeness (2012) (7)
- Lexical Meaning in Context: Preface (2011) (7)
- How much progress have we made on RST discourse parsing? A replication study of recent results on the RST-DT (2017) (7)
- Infinite games with uncertain moves (2013) (7)
- Dynamic typing for lexical semantics. A case study: the genitive construction (2004) (7)
- Content vs. function words: The view from distributional semantics1 (2018) (7)
- Reasoning about Belief and Knowledge with Self-Reference and Time (1988) (6)
- OK or not OK? Commitments in acknowledgments and corrections (2015) (6)
- Extracting and Using Discourse Structure to Resolve Anaphoric Dependencies : Combining Logico-Semantic and Statistical Approaches (6)
- Spatial entities are temporal entities too: the case of motion verbs (2008) (6)
- From Events to Propositions: A Tour of Abstract Entities, Eventualities and the Nominals that Denote Them (1993) (6)
- Aligning intentions : Acceptance and rejection in dialogue (2018) (6)
- A formalism for nonmonotonic reasoning encoded generics (2003) (6)
- Sentiment Composition Using a Parabolic Model (2013) (6)
- Preference Extraction From Negotiation Dialogues (2012) (6)
- Belief, Acceptance and Belief Reports (1989) (6)
- The Interpretation of Questions in Dialogue (2009) (6)
- Extracting and Modelling Preferences from Dialogue (2010) (5)
- Troubles with topics: Comments on Kehler, Oberlander, Stede and Zeevat (2004) (5)
- Intentional Paradoxes and an Inductive Theory of Propositional Quantification (1990) (5)
- Counter-Argumentation and Discourse: A Case Study (2014) (5)
- The Non Cooperative Basis of Implicatures (2012) (5)
- ANNODIS and related projects: case studies on the annotation of discourse structure (2017) (5)
- A Compositional Spatio-temporal Semantics for French Motion Verbs and Spatial PPs (1994) (5)
- Philosophy of linguistics (2012) (5)
- Pragmatic Reasoning, Defaults and Discourse Structure (2006) (4)
- The green leaves and the expert: polysemy and truth-conditional variability (2015) (4)
- Annotating Preferences in Negotiation Dialogues (2012) (4)
- Discourse representation theory and belief dynamics (1989) (4)
- Categorizing Opinion in Discourse (2008) (4)
- The trouble with extensional semantics (1985) (4)
- Objects, locations and complex types. (2007) (4)
- The Logical Foundations of Discourse Interpretation (1998) (3)
- Types, Meanings and Co-composition in Lexical Semantics (2017) (3)
- VP ellipsis without indices (2013) (3)
- Defining the Right Frontier in Multi-Party Dialogue (2016) (3)
- Bias in semantic and discourse interpretation (2018) (3)
- Computation and Storage in Discourse Interpretation (2002) (3)
- Discourse-Level Politeness and Implicature (2013) (3)
- Assessing Opinions in Texts (2013) (2)
- A Cognitive Model for Conversation (2012) (2)
- Negated defaults in commonsense entailment (2001) (2)
- Semantic competence, linguistic understanding, and a theory of concepts (1988) (2)
- Problems with persistence (1994) (2)
- A Discourse Account of Argument Containment Eeects (2007) (2)
- Conversations and Incomplete Knowledge (2013) (2)
- The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metaphor (2001) (2)
- Le corpus ANNODIS, un corpus enrichi d’annotations discursives [The ANNODIS corpus, a corpus enriched with discourse annotations] (2011) (2)
- Interpretive Blindness and the Impossibility of Learning from Testimony (2021) (2)
- Context in Content Composition (2012) (2)
- MEANINGS DON'T GROW ON TREES* (1984) (1)
- Annotating Preferences in Chats for Strategic Games (2012) (1)
- Modals and a Compositional Account of Counterfactuals (2005) (1)
- Conversation and Games (2017) (1)
- Comparing discourse structures between purely linguistic and situated messages in an annotated corpus (2020) (1)
- Extraction non supervisée de relations sémantiques lexicales (2014) (1)
- Learning Multi-party Discourse Structure Using Weak Supervision (2019) (1)
- 15 Metaphor in Discourse (2001) (1)
- Lexical semantics today (2015) (1)
- A Theory of Discourse Structure for an Analysis of Abstract Entity Anaphora (1993) (1)
- A large view of linguistic content (2007) (1)
- Labeled Representations, Underspecification and Disambiguation (1999) (1)
- John Searle's Philosophy of Language: Dynamic discourse semantics for embedded speech acts (2007) (1)
- Correction to: Message Exchange Games in Strategic Contexts (2018) (0)
- NICHOLAS ASHER and ALEX LASCARIDES INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS (2001) (0)
- Lexical Meaning in Context: The Complex Type • (2011) (0)
- Applications of the Theory of Discourse Structure to Concept Anaphora and VP Ellipsis (1993) (0)
- Extraction de préférences à partir de dialogues de négociation (Towards Preference Extraction From Negotiation Dialogues) [in French] (2012) (0)
- Perfect puzzles in discourse (2015) (0)
- NOTE OF APPRECIATION FROM THE EDITORS (1995) (0)
- Lexical Meaning in Context: Previous Theories of Predication (2011) (0)
- Lexical vs. logical words: the view from Distributional Semantics (2018) (0)
- Intention and Attention in Image-Text Presentations: A Coherence Approach (0)
- An evaluation of various methods for adjective-nouns composition (Une 'evaluation approfondie de diff'erentes m'ethodes de compositionalit'e s'emantique) [in French] (2014) (0)
- Ellipsis without indices (2013) (0)
- 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 28 June - 2 July 1992, University of Delaware, Newark, Deleware, USA, Proceedings (1992) (0)
- Applying the Theory of Discourse Structure to the Anaphoric Phenomena (1993) (0)
- Lexical Meaning in Context: Lexical Meaning and Predication (2011) (0)
- Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (2015) (0)
- Explorer Agreement and Disputes in Dialogue (2008) (0)
- A full treatment of situation semantics' interpretation of NI perception sentences requires a characterization of (a sees p1D. We will require a semantic rule that interprets the basic syntactic structure of NI perception sentences, (2016) (0)
- 1 Accidental and Logical Polysemy Lexical (0)
- Check elastic before jumping (2006) (0)
- Version of December 26, 1995 GENERICS AND DEFAULTS (1995) (0)
- The Logical Foundations of Discourse Interpretation : A Guide to Various Possible Semantics for SDRT (1998) (0)
- William Rounds Scott Soames (1995) (0)
- Attitudes and Attitude Descriptions (1993) (0)
- Studies in Logic, Language and Information a Great Collection Csli/sri International Csli/stanford Csli/xerox Parc Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication Data (1996) (0)
- Semantic Representation of Modal Subordination Using Type Theory (2009) (0)
- Lexical Meaning in Context: References (2011) (0)
- Unsupervised extraction of semantic relations (Extraction non supervisée de relations sémantiques lexicales) [in French] (2014) (0)
- Model Theory for Abstract Entities and its Philosophical Implications (1993) (0)
- Problems for the Semantics of Nominals (1993) (0)
- Strategic Conversation : the STAC project (2012) (0)
- Prima Facie Obligation Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)
- Type Composition Logic (2011) (0)
- Lexical Meaning in Context: • Type Presuppositions in TCL (2011) (0)
- Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (2014) (0)
- Games in Linguistics1 (2017) (0)
- Aspectual coercions in content composition (2012) (0)
- Causal relations in the semantics of the French adverb "alors" (2009) (0)
- Reasoning About Action and Time with Epistemic Conditionals (1994) (0)
- Table of Contents (2004) (0)
- 6: Deixis, Binding and Presupposition (2010) (0)
- Chapter 3 A Type Composition Logic for Generative Lexicon (2012) (0)
- Revealing Resources in Strategic Contexts (2014) (0)
- Varia Setting the background in discourse (2018) (0)
- Semantic Similarity: Foundations (2013) (0)
- What have we learned in formal semantics about ontology? (2014) (0)
- Types and Lexical Meaning (2011) (0)
- Nonmonoton ie Reasoning (0)
- The Knower''s Paradox and the Logics of Attitudes (1985) (0)
- Labeled Representations, Underspeciication and Disambiguation (1997) (0)
- Spatio-Temporal Structure in Text (1997) (0)
- Ambiguity and Anapbora with Plurals in Discourse (2011) (0)
- Modals and Anaphors in Korean (2006) (0)
- Artificial Intelligence and Language (2020) (0)
- Program Committee Contextual Filtering of Rhetorical Relations in Discourse Structuring for Language Generation in Human-computer Dialogue 115 Extracting Preferences from Dialogue: towards a Theory of Strategic Conversation Comprehending Descriptions of Non-factual Desired Situations: Discourse Refe (0)
- Anaphora and Abstract Entities (1993) (0)
- Lexical Meaning in Context: Modification, Coercion, and Loose Talk (2011) (0)
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