Conference Proceedings

N. Asher, Hunter, J. & S. Paul (to appear). Games in linguistics. In Sinn und Bedeutung 21 (SuB 2016), Edinburgh.

Hunter, J. & N. Asher (to appear). Composing discourse parenthetical reports. In Sinn und Bedeutung 21 (SuB 2016), Edinburgh.

2017

Hunter, J. & M. Abrusan (2017). Rhetorical structure and QUDs. In Otake, M., Kurahashi, S., Ota, Y., Aatoh, K., & Bekki, D. (eds.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI Workshops LENLS, JURISIN, KCSD, LLLL Revised Selected Papers., Springer, pp. 41-57, Tokyo.

2016

Asher, N., Hunter, J., Morey, M., Benamara, F. & S. Afantenos (2016). Discourse structure and dialogue acts in multiparty dialogue: the STAC corpus. In The Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). European Language Resources Association, pp. 2721-2727, Portorož.

Asher, N. & S. Paul (2016). Evaluating conversational success: weighted message exchange games. In Hunter, J., Simons, M. & M. Stone (eds.), The 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial/JerSem), pp. 55-64, New Brunswisk.

Asher, N. & S. Paul (2016). Language games. In Amblard, M., de Groote, P., Pogodalla, S. & C. Retoré (eds.) Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2016), LNCS, Springer, pp. 1-17, Nancy.

Asher, N. & S. Paul (2016). Strategic reasoning in conversations under imperfect information. In Sikić, Z., et al. (eds.), The 5th Conference on Logic and Applications (LAP), pp. 10-12, IUC Dubrovnic.

Braud, C. & P. Denis (2016). Learning connective-based word representations for implicit discourse relation identification. In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2016), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 203-213, Austin.

Cuayahuitl, H (2016). SimpleDS: A simple deep reinforcement learning dialogue system. In International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2016).

Cuayahuitl, H., Keizer, S. & O. Lemon (2016). Learning to trade in strategic board games. In Winands, M., Cazenave, T., Edelkamp, S., Schiffel, S., Thielsher, M. & J. Togelius (eds.) Computer Games (Revised and Selected Papers from the Computer Games Workshop at the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence—IJCAI), Springer, pp. 83-95, Buenos Aires.

Efstathiou, I. & O. Lemon (2016). Learning better trading dialogue policies by inferring opponent preferences. Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), pp. 1403-1404, Singapore.

Efstathiou, I. & O. Lemon (2016). Transfer of reinforcement learning negotiation policies: from bilateral to multilateral scenarios. In Kaminka, G., Fox, M., Bouquet, P., Hüllermeier, E., Dignum, V., Dignum, F. & F. van Harmelen (eds.) The 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016), IOS Press, pp. 1640-1641, The Hague.

Hunter, J. & N. Asher (2016). Shapes of conversation and at-issue content. In Moroney, M., Little, C.R., Collard, J. & D. Burgdorf (eds.) Semantics and Linguistic Theory 26 (SALT 2016), Linguistics Society of America, pp. 1022-1042, Austin.

Stede, M., Afantenos, S., Peldszus, A., Asher, N. & J. Perret (2016). Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts. In The Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). European Language Resources Association, pp. 1051-1058, Portorož.

Venant, A. & N. Asher (2016). OK or not OK? Commitments in acknowledgments and corrections. In D'Antonio, S., Moroney, M & C.R. Little (eds.) Semantics and Linguistic Theory 25 (SALT 2015), Linguistics Society of America, pp. 595-614, Palo Alto.

2015

Afantenos, S., Kow, E., Asher, N. & J. Perret (2015). Discourse parsing for multi-party chat dialogues. In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 928-937, Lisbon.

Benamara, F. & M. Taboada (2015). Mapping different rhetorical relation annotations: a proposal. In The 4th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2015), pp. 147-152, Denver.

Cuayahuitl, H., Keizer, S. & O. Lemon (2015).
Learning trading negotiations using manually and automatically labelled data. In IEEE 27th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2015), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 904-911, Salerno.

Cuayahuitl, H., Keizer, S. & O. Lemon (2015).
Strategic Dialogue Management via Deep Reinforcement Learning. In NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning, Montréal.

Dobre, M. & A. Lascarides (2015).
Online learning and mining human play in complex games. In The IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games (CIG), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 60-67, Tainan.

Efstathiou, I. & O. Lemon (2015).
Learning non-cooperative dialogue policies to beat opponent models: 'The good, the bad and the ugly'. In Howes, C. & S. Larsson (eds.) The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2015/GoDial), pp. 33-41, Gothenburg.

Hunter, J., Asher, N., Kow, E., Perret, J. & S. Afantenos (2015). Defining the right frontier in multi-party dialogue. In Howes, C. & S. Larsson (eds.) The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2015/GoDial), pp. 95-103, Gothenburg.

Hunter, J., Asher, N. & A. Lascarides (2015).
Integrating non-linguistic events into discourse structure. In Purver M., Sadrzadeh, M. & M. Stone (eds.) The 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2015), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 184-194, London.

Keizer, S., Cuayahuitl, H. & O. Lemon (2015).
Learning trade negotiation policies in strategic conversation. In Howes, C. & S. Larsson (eds.) The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2015/GoDial), pp. 104-112, Gothenburg.

Venant, A. & N. Asher (2015).
Dynamics of public commitments in dialogue. In Purver M., Sadrzadeh, M. & M. Stone (eds.) The 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2015), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 272-282, London.

2014

Afantenos, S. & N. Asher (2014). Counter-Argumentation and Discourse: A Case Study In the Workshop on Frontiers and Connections between Argumentation Theory and Natural Language Processing. Forlì-Cesena, Italy.

Efstathiou, I. & O. Lemon (2014).
 Learning on-cooperative dialogue behavior. In The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2014), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 60-68, Philadelphia. 

Guhe, M. & A. Lascarides (2014). Game strategies in The Settlers of Catan. In IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games (CIG 2014), Dortmund.

Guhe, M. & A. Lascarides (2014). The effectiveness of persuasion in The Settlers of Catan. In PIEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games (CIG 2014), Dortmund.


Guhe, M. & A. Lascarides (2014).
Persuasion in complex gamesIn Rieser, V. & P. Muller (eds.) The 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2014/DialWatt), pp. 62-70, Edinburgh.

Perret, J., Afantenos, S., Asher, N. & A. Lascarides (2014).
Revealing resources in strategic contexts. In Rieser, V. & P. Muller (eds.) The 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2014/DialWatt), pp. 135-144, Edinburgh.

Tang, W., Wang, Z., Rieser, V. & O. Lemon (2014). Sample efficient learning of strategic dialogue policies. In Rieser, V. & P. Muller (eds.) The 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2014/DialWatt), pp. 246-248, Edinburgh.

Venant, A., Asher, N. & C. Dégremont (2014).
Credibility and its attacks. In Rieser, V. & P. Muller (eds.) The 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2014/DialWatt), pp. 154-162, Edinburgh.

Vourliotakis, A., Efstathiou, I. & V. Rieser (2014). Detecting deception in non-cooperative dialogue: a smarter adversary cannot be fooled that easily. In Rieser, V. & P. Muller (eds.) The 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2014/DialWatt), pp. 252-254, Edinburgh.

2013

Asher, N. & S. Paul (2013). Infinite games with uncertain moves. In Mogavero, F., Murano, A. & M. Vardi (eds.) The First International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning (ETAPS Workshop), Open Publishing Association, pp. 25-32, Rome.

Asher, N. & S. Paul (2013).
Conversations and incomplete knowledge. In Fernández, R. & A. Isard (eds.) The 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2013/DialDam), pp. 173-175, Amsterdam.

Asher, N., Dégremont, C. & A. Venant (2013). Semantic similarity. In Yatabe, S., Bekki, D. & E. McCready (eds.) Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 10 (LENLS 2013), pp. 220-231, Kanagawa.

Cadilhac, A., Asher, N., Benamara, F. & A. Lascarides (2013).
Grounding strategic conversation: using negotiation dialogues to predict trades in a win-lose game. In The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 357-368, Seattle.

Cuayáhuitl, H., Dethlefs, N., Hastie, H. & O. Lemon (2013).
Barge-in effects in bayesian dialogue act recognition and simulation. In Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), Barge-in effects in bayesian dialogue act recognition and simulation. In Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 102-107, Olomouc.

Guhe, M., Lascarides, A., O’Connor, K. & V. Rieser (2013).
Effects of belief and memory on strategic negotiation. In Fernández, R. & A. Isard (eds.) The 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2013/DialDam), pp. 82-91, Amsterdam.

McCready, E., Asher, N. & D. Bekki (2013). Discourse level politeness and implicature. In Yatabe, S., Bekki, D. & E. McCready (eds.) Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 10 (LENLS 2013), Kanagawa.

McCready, E., Asher, N. & S. Paul (2013). Winning strategies in politeness. In Motomura, Y., Butler, A. & D. Bekki (eds.) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7856, pp.87-95.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39931-2_7

Venant, A., Asher, N., Muller, P., Denis, P. & S. Afantenos (2013).
Expressivity and comparison of models of discourse structure. In The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 2-11, Metz.

2012

Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Benamara, F., Cadilhac, A., Dégremont, C., Denis, P., Guhe, M., Keizer, S., Lascarides, A., Lemon, O., Muller, P., Paul, S., Popescu, V., Rieser, V. & L. Vieu (2012). Modeling strategic conversation: Model, annotation design and corpus. In Brown-Schmidt, S., Ginzburg, J. & S. Larsson (eds.) The 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SeineDial), pp. 167-168, Paris.

Afantenos, S., Asher, N., Benamara, F., Cadilhac, A., Degremont, C., Denis, P., Guhe, M., Keizer, S., Lascarides, A., Lemon, O., Muller, P., Paul, S., Rieser, V. & L. Vieu (2012). Developing a corpus of strategic conversation in the Settlers of Catan. In The 1st Workshop on Games and NLP, Tokyo.
 

Asher, N., Lascarides, A., Lemon, O., Guhe, M., Reiser, V., Muller, P., Afantenos, S., Benamara, F., Vieu, L., Denis, P., Paul, S., Keizer, S. & C. Dégrémont (2012). Modeling strategic conversation: the STAC project. In Brown-Schmidt, S., Ginzburg, J. & S. Larsson (eds.) The 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SeineDial), pp. 145-146, Paris.

Asher, N. (2012). The non cooperative basis of implicatures. In Béchet, D. & A. Dikovsky (eds.) Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics(LACL), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7351, pp. 45-57. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31262-5_3

Asher, N. & A. Lascarides (2012). A cognitive model for conversation. In Brown-Schmidt, S., Ginzburg, J. & S. Larsson (eds.) The 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SeineDial), pp. 31-39, Paris.

Cadilhac, A., Asher, N. & F. Benamara (2012).
 Annotating preferences in chats for strategic games. In Ide, N. & F. Xia (eds.) The Sixth Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 139-143, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

Cadilhac, A., Benamara, F., Popescu, V., Asher, N. & M. Seck (2012). Extraction de préférences à partir de dialogues de négociation. In Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN), pp. 343-350, Grenoble.

Cadilhac, A., Asher, N. & F. Benamara (2012).
Annotating preferences in negotiation dialogues. In Agirre, E. (ed.) First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*Sem), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 105-113, Montreal.

Cadilhac, A., Asher, N., Benamara, F., Popescu, V. & M. Seck (2012).
Preference extraction form negotiation dialogues. In De Raedt, L., Bessiere, C., Dubois, D., Doherty, P., Frasconi, P., Heintz, F. & P. Lucas (eds.) Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), pp. 211-216, Montpellier.

Guhe, M. & A. Lascarides (2012). Trading in a multi-player board game: Towards an analysis of non-cooperative dialogue. In Miyake, N., Peebles, D. & R. P. Cooper (eds.) the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, Tx: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1626-1631, Sapporo.

McCready, E. & N. Asher (2012). Winning strategies in politeness (Preliminary version). In Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 9 (LENLS) , pp. 87-97, Tokyo.

Muller, P., Afantenos, S., Denis, P. & N. Asher (2012). Constrained decoding for text-level discourse parsing. In Martin, K. & C. Boitet (eds.) Computational Linguistics 2012 (COLING), pp. 1883-1900, Mumbai.

Rieser, V., Lemon, O. & S. Keizer (2012).
Opponent modelling for optimising strategic dialogue. In Brown-Schmidt, S., Ginzburg, J. & S. Larsson (eds.) The 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SeineDial), pp. 175-176, Paris.

2011

Asher, N. & J. Quinley (2011). Begging questions, their answers and basic cooperativity. In Okumura, M., Bekki, D. & K. Satoh (eds.) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7258, pp. 3-12.
 doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-32090-3_2

Cadilhac, A., Asher, N., Benamara, F. & A. Lascarides (2011).
Commitments to preferences in dialogue. In Chai, J., Moore, J., Passonneau, R. & D. Traum (eds.) The 12th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pp. 204–215, Portland.