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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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Metaphor in Discourse
Nicholas Asher,Alex Lascarides +1 more
TL;DR: It is claimed that some aspects of metaphor are productive, and this productivity can be captured by perspicuous links between generalisations that are specified in the lexicon, and general purpose circumscriptive reasoning in the pragmatic component.
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Toward a geometry of common sense: a semantics and a complete axiomatization of mereotopology
Nicholas Asher,Laure Vieu +1 more
TL;DR: This work offers an alternative to Tarski, starting with mereotopological notions that have proved useful in the semantic analysis of spatial expressions and gives a complete axiomatization of this account of mereotipological reasoning.
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Subordinating and coordinating discourse relations
Nicholas Asher,Laure Vieu +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that some relations are classified as subordinating or coordinating by default, a default that can be overridden in specific contexts, and that the distinction between subordinating and coordinating relations thus belongs to the level of information packaging in discourse and not to information content or the semantics of the relations themselves.
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The semantics and pragmatics of presupposition
Nicholas Asher,Alex Lascarides +1 more
TL;DR: This account provides a formal framework for analysing problematic data, which require pragmatic reasoning, and provides a rich framework for interpreting presuppositions, where semantic and pragmatic constraints are integrated.
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Discourse relations and defeasible knowledge
Alex Lascaridest,Nicholas Asher +1 more
TL;DR: Intuitively compelling patterns of defeasible entailment that are supported by the logic in which the theory is expressed are shown to underly temporal interpretation.