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Nicholas Asher
Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Publications - 220
Citations - 9549
Nicholas Asher is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Semantics & Discourse representation theory. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 211 publications receiving 8889 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas Asher include University of Stuttgart & Aix-Marseille University.
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BUILDRS: an implementation of DR theory and LFG
Hajime Wada,Nicholas Asher +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examines a particular PROLOG implementation of Discourse Representation theory (DR theory) constructed at the University of Texas that contains a Lexical Functional Grammar parser that provides f-structures and implements an algorithm for anaphora resolution.
La ressource ANNODIS, un corpus enrichi d'annotations discursives
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors decrit la ressource ANNODIS, issue d'un projet par l'ANR, corpus de francais ecrit enrichi a differents niveaux, dont un niveau d'annotation manuelle de structures discursives.
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A formal semantics for situated conversation
TL;DR: The authors focus on examples in which non-linguistic events contribute entire discourse units that serve as arguments to coherence relations, without the mediation of context-sensitive expressions, and argue that extant coherence-based accounts of discourse should be extended to model them.
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Integrating type theory and distributional semantics: A case study on adjective-noun compositions
TL;DR: An integration of a formal semantic approach to lexical meaning and an approach based on distributional methods is explored and an algebraic interpretation of that formal semantic theory is developed and shown how to integrate the information provided by distributional models back into the formal semantic framework.