@article {7335, title = {Characterizing the response space of questions: data and theory}, journal = {Dialogue \& Discourse}, volume = {13}, year = {2022}, pages = {79{\textendash}132}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Zulipiye Yusupujiang and Li, Chuyuan and Ren, Kexin and Kucharska, Aleksandra and Lupkowski, Pawel} } @inproceedings {7329, title = {Classifying the response space of questions: A machine learning approach}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {59{\textendash}69}, address = {Dublin}, author = {Zulipiye Yusupujiang and Alafate Abulimiti and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inbook {7333, title = {Learning Language Games Probabilistically: From Crying to Compositionality}, booktitle = {Probabilistic Approaches to Linguistic Theory}, year = {2022}, publisher = {CSLI Publications}, organization = {CSLI Publications}, address = {Stanford, CA}, author = {Robin Cooper and Jonathan Ginzburg and Staffan Larsson}, editor = {Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Rasmus Blanck and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Shalom Lappin and Aleksandre Maskharashvili} } @article {7334, title = {A longitudinal characterization of typical laughter development in Mother{\textendash}child interaction from 12 to 36 months: Formal features and reciprocal responsiveness}, journal = {Journal of Nonverbal Behavior}, volume = {46}, year = {2022}, pages = {327{\textendash}362}, author = {Chiara Mazzocconi and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @article {7337, title = {Quantifiers as (quasi)-referential pluralities}, journal = {The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic}, volume = {28}, year = {2022}, pages = {275-276}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inproceedings {7336, title = {Ugchdial: A uyghur chat-based dialogue corpus for response space classification}, year = {2022}, pages = {3140{\textendash}3149}, author = {Zulipiye Yusupujiang and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inproceedings {abulimiti:hal-03536332, title = {{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}By the way, do you like Spider Man?{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} -Towards A Social Planning Model for Rapport}, year = {2021}, address = {Potsdam / Virtual, Germany}, url = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03536332}, author = {Alafate Abulimiti and Cassell, Justine and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inbook {7348, title = {Data Collection Design for Dialogue Systems for Low-Resource Languages}, booktitle = {Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade}, year = {2021}, pages = {387{\textendash}392}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, author = {Zulipiye Yusupujiang and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @article {7344, title = {Wh-Questions are understood before polar-questions: Evidence from English, German, and Chinese}, journal = {Journal of Child Language}, volume = {48}, year = {2021}, pages = {157{\textendash}183}, author = {Moradlou, Sara and Zheng, Xiaobei and Ye Tian and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inproceedings {7349, title = {Designing a GWAP for Collecting Naturally Produced Dialogues for Low Resourced Languages}, year = {2020}, pages = {44{\textendash}48}, author = {Zulipiye Yusupujiang and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @article {7338, title = {Dialogue management with linear logic: the role of metavariables in questions and clarifications}, journal = {Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL)}, volume = {61}, year = {2020}, pages = {43{\textendash}67}, author = {Vladislav Maraev and Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inbook {7355, title = {Incrementality and HPSG: Why not}, booktitle = {Constraint-Based Syntax and Semantics: Papers in Honor of Dani{\`e}le Godard}, year = {2020}, publisher = {CSLI Publications}, organization = {CSLI Publications}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Robin Cooper and Julian Hough and David Schlangen} } @inproceedings {7351, title = {Laughing about laughter: comparing conversational analysis, emotion psychology, and dialogical semantics}, year = {2020}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Chiara Mazzocconi} } @article {7343, title = {Laughter as language}, journal = {Glossa: a journal of general linguistics}, volume = {5}, year = {2020}, pages = {1{\textendash}51 year=2020}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Chiara Mazzocconi and Ye Tian} } @inproceedings {7350, title = {Laughter growing up}, year = {2020}, author = {Chiara Mazzocconi and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inproceedings {7346, title = {On the Score of Communication}, year = {2020}, address = {Brandeis University}, author = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @article {7345, title = {What{\textquoteright}s your laughter doing there? A taxonomy of the pragmatic functions of laughter}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing}, year = {2020}, author = {Chiara Mazzocconi and Ye Tian and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inproceedings {7354, title = {Characterizing the response space of questions: a corpus study for English and polish}, year = {2019}, pages = {320{\textendash}330}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Zulipiye Yusupujiang and Li, Chuyuan and Ren, Kexin and Pawe{\l} {\L} Upkowski} } @inbook {7358, title = {Ellipsis in HPSG}, booktitle = {The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis}, year = {2019}, pages = {75{\textendash}121}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Philip Miller}, editor = {Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Tanja Temmerman} } @inproceedings {7353, title = {A Sigh of Positivity: an Annotation scheme for sighs in dialogue}, year = {2019}, pages = {35{\textendash}43}, url = {http://semdial.org/anthology/Z19-Cash_semdial_0007.pdf}, author = {Christopher Cash and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inbook {7361, title = {Conversational types: a topological perspective}, booktitle = {Proceedings of AixDial, the 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue}, year = {2018}, pages = {156{\textendash}166}, publisher = {Aix Marseille University}, organization = {Aix Marseille University}, address = {Aix en Provence}, author = {Wong, Kwong-Cheong and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @article {7357, title = {Divergently seeking clarification: The emergence of clarification interaction}, journal = {Topics in cognitive science}, volume = {10}, year = {2018}, pages = {335{\textendash}366}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Kolliakou, Dimitra} } @inproceedings {7359, title = {Laughter repair}, year = {2018}, pages = {16{\textendash}25}, author = {Chiara Mazzocconi and Vladislav Maraev and Jonathan Ginzburg}, editor = {Pr{\'e}vot, Laurent and Ochs, Magalie and Faire, Benoit} } @inproceedings {7362, title = {{\textquotedblleft}No, I AM{\textquotedblright}: What are you saying {\textquotedblleft}no{\textquotedblright} to?}, volume = {21}, year = {2018}, pages = {1241{\textendash}1252}, author = {Ye Tian and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inproceedings {7360, title = {Towards KoS/TTR-based proof-theoretic dialogue management}, year = {2018}, address = {Aix-en-Provence}, author = {Vladislav Maraev and Jonathan Ginzburg and Staffan Larsson and Ye Tian and Jean-Philippe Bernardy}, editor = {Lauren Prevot and Magali Ochs and Benoit Fabre} } @article {7364, title = {Query responses}, journal = {Journal of Language Modelling}, volume = {4}, year = {2017}, pages = {245{\textendash}292}, abstract = {

In this article we consider the phenomenon of answering a query with a query. Although such answers are common, no large scale, corpus-based characterization exists, with the exception of clarification requests. After briefly reviewing different theoretical approaches on this subject, we present a corpus study of query responses in the British National Corpus and develop a taxonomy for query responses. We point at a variety of response categories that have not been formalized in previous dialogue work, particularly those relevant to adversarial interaction. We show that different response categories have significantly different rates of subsequent answer provision. We provide a formal analysis of the response categories in the framework of KoS.

}, author = {Pawe{\l} {\L}upkowski and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @article {7365, title = {Self Addressed Questions and Filled Pauses: A Cross-linguistic Investigation}, journal = {Journal of psycholinguistic research}, volume = {46}, year = {2017}, pages = {905{\textendash}922}, author = {Ye Tian and Maruyama, Takehiko and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @article {7366, title = {Grammar Is a System That Characterizes Talk in Interaction}, journal = {Frontiers in Psychology}, volume = {7}, year = {2016}, pages = {1938}, abstract = {

Much of contemporary mainstream formal grammar theory is unable to provide analyses for language as it occurs in actual spoken interaction. Its analyses are developed for a cleaned up version of language which omits the disfluencies, non-sentential utterances, gestures, and many other phenomena that are ubiquitous in spoken language. Using evidence from linguistics, conversation analysis, multimodal communication, psychology, language acquisition, and neuroscience, we show these aspects of language use are rule governed in much the same way as phenomena captured by conventional grammars. Furthermore, we argue that over the past few years the theoretical tools required to provide a precise characterizations of such phenomena have begun to emerge in theoretical and computational linguistics; hence, there is no reason for treating them as second class citizens other than pre-theoretical assumptions about what should fall under the purview of grammar. Finally, we suggest that grammar formalisms covering such phenomena would provide a better foundation not just for linguistic analysis of face-to-face interaction, but also for sister disciplines, such as research on spoken dialogue systems and /or psychological work on language acquisition.

}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01938}, url = {http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01938}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Poesio, Massimo} } @inproceedings {7363, title = {Incrementality and Clarification/Sluicing potential}, year = {2016}, address = {Edinburgh University}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Robin Cooper and Julian Hough and David, Schlangen} } @inproceedings {5823, title = {"No I Am": What are you saying "No" to?}, year = {2016}, address = {Edimbourg}, abstract = {

The English particle \“no\” can be used in a variety of contexts. We propose that \“no\” is three ways ambiguous, distinguished by the type of antecedent utilized: explicit, implicit and exophoric. The second type\—\“no\” with an implicit antecedent addresses a grounding misalignment caused by sources such as speaker\’s bias. This type of \“no\” cannot be used bare. The current semantic theories on \“no\” as an answer particle to negative polar questions and assertions claim that \“no\” is ambiguous between confirming and rejecting the polar question or assertion. The preceding negative polar question or assertion licenses and therefore provides the content for \“no\” in answers like \“No, I AM\”. We argue instead that the ambiguity arises from whether \“no\” is picking an an explicit antecedent\—the queried proposition\—or an implicit one\—the questioner\’s bias. We offer three predictions and show that even positive antecedents with implied bias may license the \“No, I AM\” type of answer; in dialogue, bare \“no\”s only pick up explicit antecedents; the strength of the bias in a negative question influences the rate of the second type of \“no\” uses. We formalize our account in the KoS framework (Ginzburg, 2012). Our analysis highlights the importance of potential mismatches between the information states of different conversational participants in meaning resolution.

}, keywords = {dialogue, KoS, negation, No, non-sentential utterance, polarity particle}, author = {Ye Tian and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @article {5826, title = {Self Addressed Questions and Filled Pauses: A cross-linguistic investigation}, journal = {Journal of Psycholinguistic Research}, year = {2016}, month = {12/2016}, pages = {1-18}, abstract = {

There is an ongoing debate whether phenomena of disfluency (such as filled pauses) are produced communicatively. Clark and Fox Tree (Cognition 84(1):73\–111, 2002) propose that filled pauses are words, and that different forms signal different lengths of delay. This paper evaluates this Filler-As-Words hypothesis by analyzing the distribution of self-addressed-questions or SAQs (such as \“what\’s the word\”) in relation to filled pauses. We found that SAQs address different problems in different languages (most frequently about memory-retrieval in English and Chinese, and about appropriateness in Japanese). In relation to filled pauses, British but not American English uses \“um\” to signal a more severe problem than \“uh\”. Chinese uses different filled pauses to signal the syntactic category of the problem constituent. Japanese uses different filled pauses to signal levels of interaction with the interlocuter. Overall, our data supports the Filler-As-Words hypothesis that filled pauses are used communicatively. However, the dimensions of its meanings vary across languages and dialects.

}, keywords = {Cross-linguistic analysis, Disfluency, Filled pauses, Self addressed questions}, issn = {1573-6555}, doi = {10.1007/s10936-016-9468-5}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-016-9468-5}, author = {Ye Tian and Maruyama, Takehiko and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @conference {5642, title = {Time alignment between laughter and laughable}, year = {2016}, month = {09/2016}, address = {Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen}, author = {Chiara Mazzocconi and Ye Tian and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @conference {5640, title = {Towards a Multi-layered Analysis of Laughter}, year = {2016}, month = {07/2016}, publisher = {Rutgers University}, address = {New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA}, author = {Chiara Mazzocconi and Ye Tian and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inproceedings {5641, title = {When do we laugh?}, year = {2016}, month = {09/2016}, address = {Los Angeles, USA}, author = {Ye Tian and Chiara Mazzocconi and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inproceedings {6309, title = {Editing Phrases}, year = {2015}, address = {Gothenburg Sweden}, author = {Ye Tian and Claire Beyssade and Yvette Yannick Mathieu and Jonathan Ginzburg} } @inproceedings {4809, title = {The Disfluency, Exclamation and Laughter in Dialogue (DUEL) Project}, year = {2014}, pages = {176{\textendash}178}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Ye Tian and Pascal Amsili and Claire Beyssade and Barbara Hemforth and Yvette Yannick Mathieu and Saillard, Claire and Julian Hough and Kousidis, Spyridon and David Schlangen} } @conference {5873, title = {The earliest utterances in dialogue: towards a formal theory of parent/child talk in interaction}, year = {2013}, month = {12/2013}, address = {Amsterdam}, abstract = {

Early, initial utterances by children have received relatively little attention from researchers on language acquisition and almost no attempts to describe them using a formal grammar. In this paper we develop a taxonomy for such utterances, inspired by a study of the Providence corpus from CHILDES and driven by the need to describe how the contents of early child utterances arise from an interaction of form and dialogical context. The results of our corpus study demonstrate that even at this early stage quite intricate semantic mechanisms are in play, including non-referential meaning, akin to non\–specific readings of quantifiers. We sketch a formal framework for describing the dialogue context and grammar that underlies such utterances. We consider very briefly and informally how some such utterances emerge from parent/child interaction.

}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Moradlou, Sara} } @inproceedings {abeille:hal-00936496, title = {French questioning declaratives : a corpus study}, year = {2012}, month = {Sep}, address = {Paris, France}, url = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00936496}, author = {Anne Abeill{\'e} and Beno{\^\i}t Crabb{\'e} and Godard, Dani{\`e}le and Jean-Marie Marandin}, editor = {Sarah Brown-Schmidt and Jonathan Ginzburg and Staffan Larsson} }