Invited Conference and Workshop Talks
2020
'Bias and Epistemic Content,' Oppressive Practices and Norms -- HaLO Workshop, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. (with N. Asher)
'Bias in Discourse Interpretation,' Speech Acts in Discourse, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. (with N. Asher)
2019
Keynote speaker at Linguistic Investigations Beyond Language, 'Relating Gesture to Speech,' ZAS, Berlin.
2016
'On the discourse function of parenthetical reports,' Backgrounded reports: commitment and negation in parenthetical reports and reportative evidentials, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
2015
Keynote speaker at (In)Coherence in Discourse 3, 'Modelling the Right Frontier in Multi-Party Dialogue,' Loria Inria Nancy Grand-Est, Nancy.
'On the discourse function of parenthetical reports,' CREST International Workshop on Formal and Computational Semantics, Kyoto.
2012
‘Lessons from the Rhetorical Properties of Now,’ Departing from Sainsbury, conference organized by Max Kölbel and Bryan Pickel in honor of R. Mark Sainsbury, Barcelona.
2011
‘Non-Indexical ‘Indexicals’,’ Content, Context and Conversation, conference organized by Christian Beyer, Magdalena Kaufmann, and Markus Steinbach and supported by the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen.
Response to ‘Epistemic Indefinites Cross-Linguistically’ by Angelika Port and Maria Aloni, PALMYR X (The Paris-Amsterdam Logic Meetings of Young Researchers), Paris.
2010
‘Presupposing Character,’ PALMYR IX, Amsterdam. Response by Maria Aloni.
2008
Response to ‘How to Disagree About Nothing’ by Lenny Clapp, 3rd Annual Conference of the University of Texas at Austin and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Austin.
2006
Response to ‘Truth and What is Said’ by Elia Zardini, Graduate Student Conference, The University of Texas at Austin.
2020
'Bias and Epistemic Content,' Oppressive Practices and Norms -- HaLO Workshop, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. (with N. Asher)
'Bias in Discourse Interpretation,' Speech Acts in Discourse, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. (with N. Asher)
2019
Keynote speaker at Linguistic Investigations Beyond Language, 'Relating Gesture to Speech,' ZAS, Berlin.
2016
'On the discourse function of parenthetical reports,' Backgrounded reports: commitment and negation in parenthetical reports and reportative evidentials, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
2015
Keynote speaker at (In)Coherence in Discourse 3, 'Modelling the Right Frontier in Multi-Party Dialogue,' Loria Inria Nancy Grand-Est, Nancy.
'On the discourse function of parenthetical reports,' CREST International Workshop on Formal and Computational Semantics, Kyoto.
2012
‘Lessons from the Rhetorical Properties of Now,’ Departing from Sainsbury, conference organized by Max Kölbel and Bryan Pickel in honor of R. Mark Sainsbury, Barcelona.
2011
‘Non-Indexical ‘Indexicals’,’ Content, Context and Conversation, conference organized by Christian Beyer, Magdalena Kaufmann, and Markus Steinbach and supported by the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen.
Response to ‘Epistemic Indefinites Cross-Linguistically’ by Angelika Port and Maria Aloni, PALMYR X (The Paris-Amsterdam Logic Meetings of Young Researchers), Paris.
2010
‘Presupposing Character,’ PALMYR IX, Amsterdam. Response by Maria Aloni.
2008
Response to ‘How to Disagree About Nothing’ by Lenny Clapp, 3rd Annual Conference of the University of Texas at Austin and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Austin.
2006
Response to ‘Truth and What is Said’ by Elia Zardini, Graduate Student Conference, The University of Texas at Austin.
Conference Presentations (Refereed)
2022
Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, Julie Hunter, Kranti Chalamalasetti, Kate Thompson, Alexandros Nicolaou, Ozan Güngör, David Schlangen and Nicholas Asher, 'Conversational Programming for Collaborative Robots,' ICRA Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Work of the Future, Pennsylvania.
Nicholas Asher, Julie Hunter, 'When Learning Becomes Impossible,' ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT), Seoul.
2021
Gravellier, L., Hunter, J., Muller, P., Pellegrini, T., Ferrané, I., 'Weakly Supervised Discourse Segmentation for Multiparty Oral Conversations,' The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Punta Cana.
Asher, N., Hunter, J., 'Interpretive Blindness and the Impossibility of Learning from Testimony,' The 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), online (instead of London).
2018
Asher, N., Hunter, J., Paul, S., 'Games in Linguistics,' Sinn und Bedeutung, Edinburgh.
Hunter, J., Asher, N. 'Composing Discourse Parenthetical Reports,' Sinn und Bedeutung, Edinburgh.
2016
Hunter, J., Asher, N. 'Composing Discourse Parenthetical Reports,' New Ideas in Semantics and Modelling, Paris.
Hunter, J., Asher, N. 'Shapes of Conversation and At-Issue Content,' poster at SALT 26, University of Texas at Austin.
Asher, N., Hunter, J., Morey, M., Benamara, F., Afantenos, S. 'Discourse structure and dialogue acts in multiparty dialogue: the STAC corpus,' LREC, Potoroz.
2015
Hunter, J., Abrusán, M. 'Rhetorical Relations and QUDs,' LENLS, Tokyo.
Hunter, J., Asher, N., Kow, E., Perret, J., Afantenos, S. 'Defining the Right Frontier in Multi-Party Dialogue,' SemDial (GoDial), Gothenburg.
Asher, N., Hunter, J. ‘STAC: Annotating Discourse Structure in Multi-Party Negotiation Dialogues,’ 14th International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp.
Hunter, J., Asher, N., Lascarides, A. ‘Integrating Non-Linguistic Events into Discourse Structure,’ 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics, London.
2014
Hunter, J., Danlos, L. ‘Because We Say So,’ Workshop on Computational Approaches to Causality in Language (14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics).
2013
Hardt, D., Asher, N., Hunter, J. ‘VP Ellipsis Without Indices,’ SALT 23, University of California, Santa Cruz.
2011
Hunter, J. ‘Now: A Discourse-Based Theory,’ The 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam.
Hunter, J. ‘From Character to Presupposition,’ SPR’11 (Semantics, Pragmatics and Rhetoric), Donostia.
Hunter, J. ‘Structured Contexts and Nuanced Strategies: Towards a General Theory of Definites,’ Philosophy of Language and Mind, Stockholm.
Hunter, J. ‘Now: A Discourse-Based Theory,’ Constraints in Discourse, Agay.
Hunter, J. ‘Now: A Discourse-Based Theory,’ Meaning, Context and Implicit Content, Château de Cerisy-la-Salle.
2010
Hunter, J. “Descriptive’ Indexicals,’ Les Journées de Sémantique et de Modélisation, Nancy.
2006
Hunter, J., Reese, B., Denis, P., Asher, N. ‘Crossing Dependencies and Discourse Relations of Attribution,’ KONVENS 8 (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache), SDRT workshop (Segmented Discourse Representation Theory), Konstanz.
Hunter, J., Asher, N., Reese, B., Denis, P. ‘Evidentiality and Intensionality,’ Constraints in Discourse 2, Dublin.
2005
Hunter, J., Asher, N. ‘A Presuppositional Account of Indexicals,’ The 15th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam.
Hunter, J., Asher, N. ‘A Presuppositional Account of Indexicals,’ SPR’05, Donostia.
2022
Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, Julie Hunter, Kranti Chalamalasetti, Kate Thompson, Alexandros Nicolaou, Ozan Güngör, David Schlangen and Nicholas Asher, 'Conversational Programming for Collaborative Robots,' ICRA Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Work of the Future, Pennsylvania.
Nicholas Asher, Julie Hunter, 'When Learning Becomes Impossible,' ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT), Seoul.
2021
Gravellier, L., Hunter, J., Muller, P., Pellegrini, T., Ferrané, I., 'Weakly Supervised Discourse Segmentation for Multiparty Oral Conversations,' The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Punta Cana.
Asher, N., Hunter, J., 'Interpretive Blindness and the Impossibility of Learning from Testimony,' The 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), online (instead of London).
2018
Asher, N., Hunter, J., Paul, S., 'Games in Linguistics,' Sinn und Bedeutung, Edinburgh.
Hunter, J., Asher, N. 'Composing Discourse Parenthetical Reports,' Sinn und Bedeutung, Edinburgh.
2016
Hunter, J., Asher, N. 'Composing Discourse Parenthetical Reports,' New Ideas in Semantics and Modelling, Paris.
Hunter, J., Asher, N. 'Shapes of Conversation and At-Issue Content,' poster at SALT 26, University of Texas at Austin.
Asher, N., Hunter, J., Morey, M., Benamara, F., Afantenos, S. 'Discourse structure and dialogue acts in multiparty dialogue: the STAC corpus,' LREC, Potoroz.
2015
Hunter, J., Abrusán, M. 'Rhetorical Relations and QUDs,' LENLS, Tokyo.
Hunter, J., Asher, N., Kow, E., Perret, J., Afantenos, S. 'Defining the Right Frontier in Multi-Party Dialogue,' SemDial (GoDial), Gothenburg.
Asher, N., Hunter, J. ‘STAC: Annotating Discourse Structure in Multi-Party Negotiation Dialogues,’ 14th International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp.
Hunter, J., Asher, N., Lascarides, A. ‘Integrating Non-Linguistic Events into Discourse Structure,’ 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics, London.
2014
Hunter, J., Danlos, L. ‘Because We Say So,’ Workshop on Computational Approaches to Causality in Language (14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics).
2013
Hardt, D., Asher, N., Hunter, J. ‘VP Ellipsis Without Indices,’ SALT 23, University of California, Santa Cruz.
2011
Hunter, J. ‘Now: A Discourse-Based Theory,’ The 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam.
Hunter, J. ‘From Character to Presupposition,’ SPR’11 (Semantics, Pragmatics and Rhetoric), Donostia.
Hunter, J. ‘Structured Contexts and Nuanced Strategies: Towards a General Theory of Definites,’ Philosophy of Language and Mind, Stockholm.
Hunter, J. ‘Now: A Discourse-Based Theory,’ Constraints in Discourse, Agay.
Hunter, J. ‘Now: A Discourse-Based Theory,’ Meaning, Context and Implicit Content, Château de Cerisy-la-Salle.
2010
Hunter, J. “Descriptive’ Indexicals,’ Les Journées de Sémantique et de Modélisation, Nancy.
2006
Hunter, J., Reese, B., Denis, P., Asher, N. ‘Crossing Dependencies and Discourse Relations of Attribution,’ KONVENS 8 (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache), SDRT workshop (Segmented Discourse Representation Theory), Konstanz.
Hunter, J., Asher, N., Reese, B., Denis, P. ‘Evidentiality and Intensionality,’ Constraints in Discourse 2, Dublin.
2005
Hunter, J., Asher, N. ‘A Presuppositional Account of Indexicals,’ The 15th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam.
Hunter, J., Asher, N. ‘A Presuppositional Account of Indexicals,’ SPR’05, Donostia.
Invited Talks in Seminars
2021
Relations and Structure in Discourse Interpretation, Semantics and Pragmatics Exchange
Invitation from Todd Snider
Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021
Relations and Structure in Discourse Interpretation, seminar in Semantics
Invitation from Daniel Altshuler
Oxford University, England
2016
'Now: A Discourse-Based Theory,' seminar on Free Indirect Discourse
Invitation from Katja Jasinskaja
University of Cologne, Germany
2012
‘Structured Contexts and Anaphoric Dependencies,’ Arché seminar
Invitation from Derek Ball, Lecturer in Philosophy
Philosophical Research Center for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
2011
‘Anaphoric Uses of Now,’ Linguistics Oberseminar
Invitation from Philippa Cook and Paula Menendez Benito
Department of English, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
2010
“Descriptive’ Indexicals,’ Séminaire de la philosophie du langage et de l’esprit
Invitation from François Recanati, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France
2009
“Descriptive’ Indexicals,’ Semantics seminar
Invitation from Professor Dr. Magdalena Kaufmann, Assistant Professor
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
‘Sense Uncertainty,’ Séminaire doctoral, ‘La Première Personne’
Invitation from François Recanati, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
L’EHESS, Paris, France, given in French
‘Sense Uncertainty,’ Semantics and pragmatics colloquium
Invitation from Rob van der Sandt, Professor
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Holland
2007
Guest lecture, Seminar on the philosophy of language
Invitation from Dr. Mark Sainsbury, Professor
University of Texas at Austin, US
2021
Relations and Structure in Discourse Interpretation, Semantics and Pragmatics Exchange
Invitation from Todd Snider
Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021
Relations and Structure in Discourse Interpretation, seminar in Semantics
Invitation from Daniel Altshuler
Oxford University, England
2016
'Now: A Discourse-Based Theory,' seminar on Free Indirect Discourse
Invitation from Katja Jasinskaja
University of Cologne, Germany
2012
‘Structured Contexts and Anaphoric Dependencies,’ Arché seminar
Invitation from Derek Ball, Lecturer in Philosophy
Philosophical Research Center for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
2011
‘Anaphoric Uses of Now,’ Linguistics Oberseminar
Invitation from Philippa Cook and Paula Menendez Benito
Department of English, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
2010
“Descriptive’ Indexicals,’ Séminaire de la philosophie du langage et de l’esprit
Invitation from François Recanati, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France
2009
“Descriptive’ Indexicals,’ Semantics seminar
Invitation from Professor Dr. Magdalena Kaufmann, Assistant Professor
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
‘Sense Uncertainty,’ Séminaire doctoral, ‘La Première Personne’
Invitation from François Recanati, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
L’EHESS, Paris, France, given in French
‘Sense Uncertainty,’ Semantics and pragmatics colloquium
Invitation from Rob van der Sandt, Professor
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Holland
2007
Guest lecture, Seminar on the philosophy of language
Invitation from Dr. Mark Sainsbury, Professor
University of Texas at Austin, US
Other Presentations
2014
‘PAC-SYNTAXE,’ 10th Annual Congrès PAC (Phonologie de l'Anglais Contemporain), Montpellier (presentation by collaborator, Laurie Buscali).
‘Discourse Topic,’ 5th Meeting of the DFG Network on Questions in Discourse, Stuttgart (with Márta Abrusán).
2012
‘Sur les Propriétés Rhétoriques de “Now” en Anglais,’ Séminaire CLLE-ERSS, Mirail, Toulouse.
2011
‘Context Sensitivity in Semantics and Discourse,’ Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen.
2014
‘PAC-SYNTAXE,’ 10th Annual Congrès PAC (Phonologie de l'Anglais Contemporain), Montpellier (presentation by collaborator, Laurie Buscali).
‘Discourse Topic,’ 5th Meeting of the DFG Network on Questions in Discourse, Stuttgart (with Márta Abrusán).
2012
‘Sur les Propriétés Rhétoriques de “Now” en Anglais,’ Séminaire CLLE-ERSS, Mirail, Toulouse.
2011
‘Context Sensitivity in Semantics and Discourse,’ Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen.