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    The Interactive Stance: Meaning for Conversation.Jonathan Ginzburg - 2012 - Oxford University Press UK.
    This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive reach from the micro-conversational - e.g. self-repair at the word level - to macro-level phenomena such as multi-party conversation and the characterization of distinct conversational genres. It draws on extensive corpus studies of the British National Corpus, on evidence from language acquisition, and on computer simulations of language evolution. The theory provides accounts of (...)
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  2. Resolving questions, I.Jonathan Ginzburg - 1995 - Linguistics and Philosophy 18 (5):459 - 527.
    The paper is in two parts. In Part I, a semantics for embedded and query uses of interrogatives is put forward, couched within a situation semantics framework. Unlike many previous analyses,questions are not reductively analysed in terms of their answers. This enables us to provide a notion of ananswer that resolves a question which varies across contexts relative to parameters such as goals and inferential capabilities. In Part II of the paper, extensive motivation is provided for an ontology that distinguishes (...)
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  3. Resolving questions, II.Jonathan Ginzburg - 1995 - Linguistics and Philosophy 18 (6):567 - 609.
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  4. Interrogatives: Questions, facts and dialogue.Jonathan Ginzburg - 1996 - In Shalom Lappin (ed.), The handbook of contemporary semantic theory. Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell Reference.
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    Clarification, ellipsis, and the nature of contextual updates in dialogue.Jonathan Ginzburg & Robin Cooper - 2004 - Linguistics and Philosophy 27 (3):297-365.
    The paper investigates an elliptical construction, Clarification Ellipsis, that occurs in dialogue. We suggest that this provides data that demonstrates that updates resulting from utterances cannot be defined in purely semantic terms, contrary to the prevailing assumptions of existing approaches to dynamic semantics. We offer a computationally oriented analysis of the resolution of ellipsis in certain cases of dialogue clarification. We show that this goes beyond standard techniques used in anaphora and ellipsis resolution and requires operations on highly structured, linguistically (...)
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    How to Resolve How to.Jonathan Ginzburg - 2011 - In John Bengson & Marc A. Moffett (eds.), Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press USA. pp. 215.
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  7. Grammar Is a System That Characterizes Talk in Interaction.Jonathan Ginzburg & Massimo Poesio - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7.
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    Divergently Seeking Clarification: The Emergence of Clarification Interaction.Jonathan Ginzburg & Dimitra Kolliakou - 2018 - Topics in Cognitive Science 10 (2):335-366.
    Clarification requests, queries posed in response to a “problematic” (misheard, misunderstood, etc.) utterance, are a challenge to mainstream semantic theories because they call into question notions such as “shared content” or “the context.” Given their strong parallelism requirements, elliptical clarification requests introduce in addition significant complexities concerning the need for long-term maintenance of non-semantic information in context. In this paper, we consider a puzzle concerning the emergence of elliptical clarification requests in child English: Data from the Belfast and Manchester corpora (...)
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    Quotation via Dialogical Interaction.Jonathan Ginzburg & Robin Cooper - 2014 - Journal of Logic, Language and Information 23 (3):287-311.
    Quotation has been much studied in philosophy. Given that quotation allows one to diagonalize out of any grammar, there have been comparatively few attempts within the linguistic literature to develop an account within a formal linguistic theory. Nonetheless, given the ubiquity of quotation in natural language, linguists need to explicate the formal mechanisms it employs. The central claim of this paper is that once one assumes a dialogical perspective on language such as provided by the KoS (KoS is not an (...)
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  10. A compositional situation semantics for attitude reports.Robin Cooper & Jonathan Ginzburg - 1996 - In Jerry Seligman & Dag Westerstahl (eds.), Logic, Language and Computation. Center for the Study of Language and Inf. pp. 1--151.
     
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    Language games and their types.Jonathan Ginzburg & Kwong-Cheong Wong - 2024 - Linguistics and Philosophy 47 (1):149-189.
    One of the success stories of formal semantics is explicating responsive moves like answers to questions. There is, however, a significant lacune concerning the characterization of _initiating utterances_, which are strongly tied to the conversational activity [language game (Wittgenstein), speech genre (Bakhtin)], or—our terminology—_conversational type_, one is engaged in. To date there has been no systematic proposal trying to account for the range of possible _language games_/_speech genres_/_conversational types_ and their global structure. In particular, concerning the range of subject matter (...)
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  12. Type theory with records for natural language semantics.Robin Cooper & Jonathan Ginzburg - 1996 - In Shalom Lappin (ed.), The handbook of contemporary semantic theory. Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell Reference.
     
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  13. Resolving Ellipsis in Clarification.Jonathan Ginzburg & Robin Cooper - unknown
    We offer a computational analysis of the resolution of ellipsis in certain cases of dialogue clarification. We show that this goes beyond standard techniques used in anaphora and ellipsis resolution and requires operations on highly structured, linguistically heterogeneous representations. We characterize these operations and the representations on which they operate. We offer an analysis couched in a version of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar combined with a theory of information states (IS).
     
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  14. 782 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Veneeta Dayal Regine Eckardt Paul Elbourne.Martina Faller, Hana Filip, Nissim Francez, Angela Friederici, Marc Gawron, Bart Geurts, Anastasia Giannakidou, Jonathan Ginzburg, Paul Gochet & D. Graff - 2003 - Linguistics and Philosophy 26:781-782.
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  15. 790 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Ariel Cohen Ann Copestake Robert Cummins.Helen de Hoop, Paul Dekker, Donka Farkas, Ted Fernald, Tim Fernando, Bart Geurts, Jonathan Ginzburg, Brendan Gillon, Barbara Grosz & Pat Healey - 2001 - Linguistics and Philosophy 24:789-790.
  16. A quasi-naïve semantics for interrogatives and its implications.Jonathan Ginzburg - 2003 - In Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach (ed.), Semantics: critical concepts in linguistics. New York: Routledge. pp. 353--373.
     
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    Intrinsic misalignment in dialogue: Why there is no unique context in a conversation.Jonathan Ginzburg - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (2):197-199.
    Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) claim that conversationalists do not explicitly keep track of their interlocuters' information states is important. Nonetheless, via alignment, they seem to create a virtually symmetrical view of the information states of speaker and addressee – a key component of their accounts of collaborative utterances and of self-monitoring. As I show, there is significant evidence for intrinsic contextual misalignment between conversationalists that can persist across turns.
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  18. Part three: Linguistic perspectives-9 how to resolve how to.Jonathan Ginzburg - 2012 - Philosophical Inquiry 36 (1-2):215.
     
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  19. (1 other version)Using Machine Learning for Non-Sentential Utterance Classification.Jonathan Ginzburg & Shalom Lappin - unknown
    In this paper we investigate the use of machine learning techniques to classify a wide range of non-sentential utterance types in dialogue, a necessary first step in the interpretation of such fragments. We train different learners on a set of contextual features that can be extracted from PoS information. Our results achieve an 87% weighted f-score—a 25% improvement over a simple rule-based algorithm baseline.
     
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  20. Logic, Langage and Computation, Volume 2.Lawrence S. Moss, Jonathan Ginzburg & Maarten de Rijke (eds.) - 1999 - Center for the Study of Language and Inf.
     
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