@inproceedings {7539, title = {Referential Transparency and Inquisitivity}, year = {2023}, abstract = {

The paper extends a referentially transparent
approach which has been successfully applied
to the analysis of declarative quantified NPs
to wh-phrases. This uses data from dialogi-
cal phenomena such as clarification interaction,
anaphora, and incrementality as a guide to the
design of wh-phrase meanings.

}, author = {Ginzburg, Jonathan and L{\"u}cking, Andy} } @inproceedings {7537, title = {TTR at the SPA: Relating type-theoretical semantics to neural semantic pointers}, year = {2023}, abstract = {

This paper considers how the kind of formal
semantic objects used in TTR (a theory of types
with records, Cooper, 2023) might be related
to the vector representations used in Eliasmith
(2013). An advantage of doing this is that it
would immediately give us a neural representa-
tion for TTR objects as Eliasmith relates vec-
tors to neural activity in his semantic pointer
architecture (SPA). This would be an alternat-
ive using convolution to the suggestions made
by Cooper (2019a) based on the phasing of
neural activity. The project seems potentially
hopeful since all complex TTR objects are con-
structed from labelled sets (essentially sets of
ordered pairs consisting of labels and values)
which might be seen as corresponding to the
representation of structured objects which Elia-
smith achieves using superposition and circular
convolution.

}, author = {Larsson, Staffan and Cooper, Robin and Ginzburg, Jonathan and L{\"u}cking, Andy} } @inproceedings {7330, title = {How to repair a slip of the tongue?}, year = {2022}, pages = {35{\textendash}47}, author = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan} } @inproceedings {7331, title = {The Integrated Model of Memory: a dialogical perspective}, year = {2022}, pages = {6{\textendash}17. year = 2022}, author = {Ginzburg, Jonathan and L{\"u}cking, Andy} } @inproceedings {7340, title = {I thought pointing is rude: A dialogue-semantic analysis of pointing at the addressee}, volume = {25}, year = {2021}, pages = {276{\textendash}291}, doi = {10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.937}, author = {Ginzburg, Jonathan and L{\"u}cking, Andy} } @inproceedings {6887, title = {Requesting clarifications with speech and gestures}, year = {2021}, address = {Virtual at the University of Groningen, held in conjuction with IWCS 2021}, abstract = {

In multimodal natural language interaction both
speech and non-speech gestures are involved in
the basic mechanism of grounding and repair.
We discuss a couple of multimodal clarifica-
tion requests and argue that gestures, as well as
speech expressions, underlie comparable paral-
lelism constraints. In order to make this precise,
we slightly extend the formal dialogue frame-
work KoS to cover also gestural counterparts
of verbal locutionary propositions.

}, author = {Ginzburg, Jonathan and L{\"u}cking, Andy} } @inproceedings {7341, title = {Saying and shaking {\textquoteleft}no{\textquoteright}}, year = {2021}, abstract = {

In many instances, the head shake can be used instead of or in addition
to verbal \‘No\’. Based on previous work on negation in dialogue, we observe
head shaking as answer particles and as responding to an implicit or an exo-
phoric (i.e., real world situation) antecedent. Exophoric head shake, however,
seems to come in two flavours: with positive and with negative emotional
valuation of the antecedent situation. We provide semantic analyses for all
three uses (and a head nod) within an HPSG version which is implemented
in Type Theory with Records and the dialogue framewok KoS. In particular,
we extend on previous work by grounding \“exophoric negation\” in positive
or negative appraisal. Finally, we briefly speculate about differences between
verbal \‘No\’ and head shaking due to (the lack of) simultaneity.

}, doi = {10.21248/hpsg.2021.15}, author = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan} } @inproceedings {6737, title = {On Laughter and Forgetting and Reconversing: A neurologically-inspired model of conversational context}, year = {2020}, abstract = {

We argue that phenomena from both dement- ive and neurotypical individuals motivate the need for a synthesis between existing formal semantic theories of dialogue context and the- ories of memory and emotion. We sketch here such a synthesis: we embed certain very transient aspects of dialogical semantic states as components of a Multicomponent Work- ing Memory (Baddeley, 2012) style working memory and we also sketch how to embed dialogues globally within Long Term Memory. We exemplify how the emergent framework can account for the conversational phenomena.

}, author = {Ginzburg, Jonathan and L{\"u}cking, Andy} } @inproceedings {6736, title = {Towards the score of communication}, year = {2020}, abstract = {

The exchange of verbal and non-verbal com- munication signals in face-to-face dialogue is complexly organised in several ways: each contribution is produced and processed incre- mentally, contributions may be consecutive (e.g. question-answer pairs) or overlapping (e.g. backchannelling), and the contributions themselves may be multimodal. Contributions nonetheless exhibit pairwise utterance coher- ence, and in two respects: across tiers and across discourse co-texts. For these reasons, we propose to distribute dialogue agents across different tiers and to \‘incrementalize\’ the se- quential notion of turns according to the model of music-inspired communication scores

}, author = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan} } @inproceedings {7352, title = {Distribution is not enough: going Firther}, year = {2019}, pages = {1{\textendash}10}, author = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Cooper, Robin and Larsson, Staffan and Ginzburg, Jonathan} } @inproceedings {6604, title = {Not few but all quantifiers can be negated: towards a referentially transparent semantics of quantified noun phrases}, year = {2019}, pages = {269-278}, abstract = {

The main concern of this paper is to introduce not as a noun phrase negation operator. It is used in order to compositionally derive structures such as not(many)(bicycles). However, noun phrase negation is part of a much larger account of plural semantics and quantification, guided by the notion of referential transparency. Therefore the paper splits into two parts: the first part gives a minimal background on a referential transparent NP semantics. A foundation of the semantics of plural count nouns in terms of ordered set bipartitions is given. This includes as a side effect a significant reduction in the number of possible quantifier denotations and a derivation of the conservativity universal. The second part deals with not and how it interacts with an negation and anaphoric accessibility.

}, url = {http://events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2019/}, author = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan} } @inproceedings {6603, title = {{\textquoteleft}Most people but not Bill{\textquoteright}: integrating sets, individuals and negation into a cognitively plausible account of noun phrase interpretation}, year = {2018}, author = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan} }