Selected Books
Asher, N. Lexical Meaning in Context: A Web of Words, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Asher, N. & Lascarides, A. Logics of Conversation, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Asher, N. Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse: A Philosophical Semantics for Natural Language Metaphysics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series Vol. 50, 1993.
Recent Journal Articles
Hunter, J., Asher, N. & Lascarides, A. (forthcoming). A Formal Semantics for Situated Conversation. Semantics and Pragmatics.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (forthcoming). Strategic Conversation under Imperfect Information: Epistemic Message Exchange Games. Journal of Logic, Language and Information.
Asher, N., Paul, S. & Venant, A. (2017). Message Exchange Games in Strategic Contexts. Journal of Philosophical Logic 46(4), pp.355-404.
Dégremont, C., Paul, S. & Asher, N. (2017) A Logic of Sights. Logic and Computation 27(4), pp.1225-1305.
Asher, N., Van de Cruys, T. & Abrusan, M. (2016). Integrating type theory and distributional semantics: a case study on adjective-noun compositions. Computational Linguistics 42(4) pp.703-725
Benamara, F., Asher, N., Mathieu, Y., Popescu, V. & Chardon, B. (2016). Evaluation in Discourse: A Corpus Based Study. Dialogue and Discourse 7(1), pp.1-49.
Asher, N., Benamara, F., Cadilhac, A. & Lascarides, A. (2015). Preference Change, Journal of Logic, Language and Information 24(3), pp.267-288.
Asher, N. (2015). Types, Meanings and Coercions in Lexical Semantics. Lingua 157, pp. 66-82.
Asher, N. (2014). Sectional Restrictions, Types and Categories. Journal of Applied Logic 12, pp. 75-87, 2014. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2013.08.002.
Asher, N. & Lascarides, A. (2013). Strategic conversation. Semantics and Pragmatics, 6(2), pp. 1–62. doi: dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.6.2.
Asher, N. (2012). Implicatures and Discourse Structure. Lingua 132, pp. 13-28. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.10.001.
Asher, N. (2011). A Snapshot of Discourse Semantics in 2011. Memoires de la Societé Linguistique de Paris, pp. 183-204.
Asher, N. & Lascarides, A. (2011). Reasoning Dynamically about What One Says. Synthese, 183.1, pp. 5-31. doi: 10.1007/s11229-011-0016-4.
Recent Conference Proceedings
Morey, M., Muller, P. & Asher, N. (2017). How much progress have we made on RST discourse parsing? A replication study of recent results on the RST-DT, Proceedings of EMNLP 2017, Copenhagen, DK.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2017). Conversation and Games, Proceedings of the 7th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications, Kanpur, India.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2016). Language Games, Proceedings of LACL 2016, Nancy, France.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2016). Strategic Reasoning in Conversations under Imperfect Information, Proceedings of LAP 2016, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Asher, N., Hunter, J. & Paul, S. (2016). Games in Linguistics, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2016, Nancy, France.
Hunter, J. & Asher, N. (2016). Composing Discourse Parenthetical Reports, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2016, Nancy, France.
Schloeder, J., Venant, A. & Asher, N. (2016). Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2016, Nancy, France.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2016). Evaluating Conversational Success: Weighted Message Exchange Games, Proceedings of SEMDIAL 2016, Nancy, France.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Morey, M. & Perret, J. (2016). Integer Linear Programming for Discourse Parsing, Proceedings of 15th NAACL, SanDiego, CA.
Hunter, J. & Asher, N. (2016). Shapes of Conversation and At-Issue Content. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 26 (SALT), Austin, TX.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Kow, E. & Perret, J. (2015). Discourse parsing for multi-party chat dialogues. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Lisbon, Portugal.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Hunter, J., Kow, E. & Perret, J. (2015). Defining the Right Frontier in Multi-Party Dialogue, Proceedings of Semdial, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Asher, N., Bride, A. & van der Cruys, T. (2015). A Cross-lingual Evaluation of Various Methods for Composition including A Generalisation of Lexical Functions. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Beijing.
Asher, N. & Venant, A. (2015). OK or not OK? Commitments, Acknowledgments and Corrections. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 25 (SALT), Stanford.
Asher, N., Hunter, J. & Lascarides, A. (2015). Integrating Non-Linguistic Events into Discourse Structure. Proceedings of IWCS, London.
Asher, N. & Venant, A. (2015). Dynamics of Public Commitments in Dialogue. Proceedings of IWCS, London.
Asher, N., Dégremont, C. & Venant, A. (2014). Credibility and its Attacks. Proceedings of Semdial.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N. & Perret, J. (2014). Revealing Resources in Strategic Contexts. Proceedings of Semdial.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Conrath, J. & Muller, P (2014). Unsupervised Extraction of Semantic Relations Using Discourse Cues. Coling.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Conrath, J. & Muller, P (2014). Extraction Nonsupervisée de Relations Sémantiques Lexicales. TALN.
Asher, N., Bride, A., van de Cruys, T. (2014). Une Evaluation Approfondie de Différentes Méthodes de Compositionalité Sémantique. TALN.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2013). Conversations and Incomplete Knowledge. Proceedings of Semdial.
Asher, N., Benamara, F., Cadilhac, A. & Lascarides, A. (2013). Grounding Strategic Conversation: Using Negotiation Dialogues to Predict Trades in a Win-Lose Game, EMNLP, Seattle.
Asher, N., Dégremont, C. & Venant, A. (2013). Semantic Similarity. LENLS 10, Tokyo.
Asher, N., Bekki, D. & McReady, E. (2013). Discourse-level Politeness and Implicature. LENLS 10, Tokyo.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Denis, P., Muller, P. & Venant, A. (2013). Expressivity and Comparison of Models of Discourse Structure, SIGDIAL, Metz, France.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2013), Infinite Games with Uncertain Moves. First International Conference on Strategic Reasoning, ETAPS workshop, Rome.
Asher, N., Hardt, D. & Hunter, J. (2013). Ellipsis Without Indices. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 22 (SALT), Santa Cruz.
Asher, N. Lexical Meaning in Context: A Web of Words, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Asher, N. & Lascarides, A. Logics of Conversation, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Asher, N. Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse: A Philosophical Semantics for Natural Language Metaphysics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series Vol. 50, 1993.
Recent Journal Articles
Hunter, J., Asher, N. & Lascarides, A. (forthcoming). A Formal Semantics for Situated Conversation. Semantics and Pragmatics.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (forthcoming). Strategic Conversation under Imperfect Information: Epistemic Message Exchange Games. Journal of Logic, Language and Information.
Asher, N., Paul, S. & Venant, A. (2017). Message Exchange Games in Strategic Contexts. Journal of Philosophical Logic 46(4), pp.355-404.
Dégremont, C., Paul, S. & Asher, N. (2017) A Logic of Sights. Logic and Computation 27(4), pp.1225-1305.
Asher, N., Van de Cruys, T. & Abrusan, M. (2016). Integrating type theory and distributional semantics: a case study on adjective-noun compositions. Computational Linguistics 42(4) pp.703-725
Benamara, F., Asher, N., Mathieu, Y., Popescu, V. & Chardon, B. (2016). Evaluation in Discourse: A Corpus Based Study. Dialogue and Discourse 7(1), pp.1-49.
Asher, N., Benamara, F., Cadilhac, A. & Lascarides, A. (2015). Preference Change, Journal of Logic, Language and Information 24(3), pp.267-288.
Asher, N. (2015). Types, Meanings and Coercions in Lexical Semantics. Lingua 157, pp. 66-82.
Asher, N. (2014). Sectional Restrictions, Types and Categories. Journal of Applied Logic 12, pp. 75-87, 2014. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2013.08.002.
Asher, N. & Lascarides, A. (2013). Strategic conversation. Semantics and Pragmatics, 6(2), pp. 1–62. doi: dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.6.2.
Asher, N. (2012). Implicatures and Discourse Structure. Lingua 132, pp. 13-28. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.10.001.
Asher, N. (2011). A Snapshot of Discourse Semantics in 2011. Memoires de la Societé Linguistique de Paris, pp. 183-204.
Asher, N. & Lascarides, A. (2011). Reasoning Dynamically about What One Says. Synthese, 183.1, pp. 5-31. doi: 10.1007/s11229-011-0016-4.
Recent Conference Proceedings
Morey, M., Muller, P. & Asher, N. (2017). How much progress have we made on RST discourse parsing? A replication study of recent results on the RST-DT, Proceedings of EMNLP 2017, Copenhagen, DK.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2017). Conversation and Games, Proceedings of the 7th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications, Kanpur, India.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2016). Language Games, Proceedings of LACL 2016, Nancy, France.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2016). Strategic Reasoning in Conversations under Imperfect Information, Proceedings of LAP 2016, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Asher, N., Hunter, J. & Paul, S. (2016). Games in Linguistics, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2016, Nancy, France.
Hunter, J. & Asher, N. (2016). Composing Discourse Parenthetical Reports, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2016, Nancy, France.
Schloeder, J., Venant, A. & Asher, N. (2016). Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2016, Nancy, France.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2016). Evaluating Conversational Success: Weighted Message Exchange Games, Proceedings of SEMDIAL 2016, Nancy, France.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Morey, M. & Perret, J. (2016). Integer Linear Programming for Discourse Parsing, Proceedings of 15th NAACL, SanDiego, CA.
Hunter, J. & Asher, N. (2016). Shapes of Conversation and At-Issue Content. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 26 (SALT), Austin, TX.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Kow, E. & Perret, J. (2015). Discourse parsing for multi-party chat dialogues. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Lisbon, Portugal.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Hunter, J., Kow, E. & Perret, J. (2015). Defining the Right Frontier in Multi-Party Dialogue, Proceedings of Semdial, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Asher, N., Bride, A. & van der Cruys, T. (2015). A Cross-lingual Evaluation of Various Methods for Composition including A Generalisation of Lexical Functions. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Beijing.
Asher, N. & Venant, A. (2015). OK or not OK? Commitments, Acknowledgments and Corrections. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 25 (SALT), Stanford.
Asher, N., Hunter, J. & Lascarides, A. (2015). Integrating Non-Linguistic Events into Discourse Structure. Proceedings of IWCS, London.
Asher, N. & Venant, A. (2015). Dynamics of Public Commitments in Dialogue. Proceedings of IWCS, London.
Asher, N., Dégremont, C. & Venant, A. (2014). Credibility and its Attacks. Proceedings of Semdial.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N. & Perret, J. (2014). Revealing Resources in Strategic Contexts. Proceedings of Semdial.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Conrath, J. & Muller, P (2014). Unsupervised Extraction of Semantic Relations Using Discourse Cues. Coling.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Conrath, J. & Muller, P (2014). Extraction Nonsupervisée de Relations Sémantiques Lexicales. TALN.
Asher, N., Bride, A., van de Cruys, T. (2014). Une Evaluation Approfondie de Différentes Méthodes de Compositionalité Sémantique. TALN.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2013). Conversations and Incomplete Knowledge. Proceedings of Semdial.
Asher, N., Benamara, F., Cadilhac, A. & Lascarides, A. (2013). Grounding Strategic Conversation: Using Negotiation Dialogues to Predict Trades in a Win-Lose Game, EMNLP, Seattle.
Asher, N., Dégremont, C. & Venant, A. (2013). Semantic Similarity. LENLS 10, Tokyo.
Asher, N., Bekki, D. & McReady, E. (2013). Discourse-level Politeness and Implicature. LENLS 10, Tokyo.
Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Denis, P., Muller, P. & Venant, A. (2013). Expressivity and Comparison of Models of Discourse Structure, SIGDIAL, Metz, France.
Asher, N. & Paul, S. (2013), Infinite Games with Uncertain Moves. First International Conference on Strategic Reasoning, ETAPS workshop, Rome.
Asher, N., Hardt, D. & Hunter, J. (2013). Ellipsis Without Indices. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 22 (SALT), Santa Cruz.