Publications
Books
Interrogative Investigations, jointly written with Ivan A. Sag, appeared in 2001, published by CSLI Publications, Stanford, in association with University of Chicago Press .
Download the introductory chapter
The Interactive Stance: Meaning for Conversation 2012, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Paperback edition: 2015.
Available direct from Oxford University Press at:
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199697922.do
Online version: Oxford Scholarship Online
Books Edited
(with Enric Vallduvi, Zurab Khasidashvili, and Carl Vogel) The Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation: Selected Papers
(with Lawrence Moss and Maarten de Rijke) Logic, Language, and Computation: volume 2 CSLI Publications 1999
(with Catherine Pelachaud) Laughter Workshop 2018
Papers
2023
Jonathan Ginzburg and Jongbok Kim. "Exclaiming non-sententially: exclamative sluices and the (non-elliptical) nature of ellipsis constructions". Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1)
Jonathan Ginzburg and Kwong-Cheong Wong. "Language Games and their Types". Linguistics and Philosophy (in press), draft
Mazzocconi, Chiara, & Jonathan Ginzburg, "Growing up laughing: Laughables and pragmatic functions between 12 and 36 months". Journal of Pragmatics, 212, 117-145. download
Jonathan Ginzburg and Andy Lücking "Referential Transparency and Inquisitivity". Proceedings of Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary (InqBnB) 2023,
Larsson, Staffan, Robin Cooper, Jonathan Ginzburg, and Andy Lücking "TTR at the SPA: Relating type-theoretical semantics to neural semantic pointers". Proceedings of the workshop on Natural Logic meets Machine Learning (Naloma) 2023.
Yusupujiang, Zulipiye, and Jonathan Ginzburg. "Unravelling Indirect Answers to Wh-Questions: Corpus Construction, Analysis, and Generation." In Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 336-348. 2023.
2022
Lücking, Andy, and Jonathan Ginzburg. "Leading voices: dialogue semantics, cognitive science and the polyphonic structure of multimodal interaction." Language and Cognition (2022): 1-25.
Zulipiye Yusupujiang, Alafate Abulimiti and Jonathan Ginzburg. `Classifying the Response Space of Questions: A Machine Learning Approach'. In: Proceedings of DubDial the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Dublin.
Andy Lücking and Jonathan Ginzburg `How to repair a slip of the tongue?' In: Proceedings of DubDial the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Dublin.
Jonathan Ginzburg and Andy Lücking `The Integrated Model of Memory: a dialogical perspective'. In: Proceedings of DubDial the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Dublin.
Jonathan Ginzburg `Quantifiers as (quasi)-referential pluralities' The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , JUNE 2022, Vol. 28, No. 2 (JUNE 2022), pp. 275- 6
Robin Cooper, Jonathan Ginzburg, Staffan Larsson `Learning Language Games Probabilistically: From Crying to Compositionality' (to appear in): Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Rasmus Blanck, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Shalom Lappin, Aleksandre Maskharashvili (eds.) Probabilistic Approaches to Linguistic Theory, CSLI Publications, Stanford.
Chiara Mazzocconi and Jonathan Ginzburg `A longitudinal characterisation of typical laughter development in mother-child interaction from 12 to 36 months: formal features and reciprocal responsiveness'. The Journal of Non-Verbal Behavior, pp.1-36.
Jonathan Ginzburg, Zulipiye Yusupujiang, Chuyuan Li ,Kexin Ren, Aleksandra Kucharska, and Paweł Łupkowski `Characterizing the Response Space of Questions: data and theory' Dialogue and Discourse 13(2):79-132, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5210/dad.2022.203
Andy Lücking and Jonathan Ginzburg `Referential Transparency as the proper treatment for quantification'. Semantics and Pragmatics.
Zulipiye Yusupujiang and Jonathan Ginzburg `UgChDial: A Uyghur Chat-based Dialogue Corpus for Response Space Classification'. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), pages 3140–3149, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022.
2021
Vladislav Maraev and Jonathan Ginzburg and Jean-Philippe Bernardy `Dialogue management with linear logic: the role of metavariables in questions and clarifications'. Traitement Automatique des Langages.
Andy Lücking, Jonathan Ginzburg, and Robin Cooper `Grammar in Dialogue' In: S. Müller, A Abeillé, R. Borsley, and JP Koenig(eds) Handbook of HPSG
Jonathan Ginzburg and Andy Lu ̈cking “‘I thought pointing is rude”: A dialogue-semantic analysis of pointing at the addressee’. In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25 (SuB) . Special session: Gestures and Natural Language Semantics.
Andy Lücking and Jonathan Ginzburg “Saying and shaking ‘No’”. In: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Online and Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Andy Lücking and Jonathan Ginzburg ‘Requesting clarifications with speech and gestures’. In: Beyond Language: Multimodal Semantic Representations, MMSR I. Online Workshop held in conjuction with IWCS 2021
2020
Jonathan Ginzburg, Chiara Mazzocconi, and Ye Tian `Laughter as Language'. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 104, 1--51. Manuel Neuer laughing (recording thanks to Tim Brack SDZ)
Sara Moradlou, Xiaobei Zheng, Ye Tian, and Jonathan Ginzburg `Wh-Questions are understood before polar-questions: Evidence from English, German, and Chinese'. In Journal of Child Language 28:1-27.
Chiara Mazzocconi, Ye Tian and Jonathan Ginzburg, "What's your laughter doing there? A taxonomy of the pragmatic functions of laughter," in: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2020.2994533, pre-publication-draft published version (copyright IEEE)
Andy L"ucking and Jonathan Ginzburg `Towards the score of communication'. In: S. Malamud et al (eds) Proceedings of SemDial 2020
Jonathan Ginzburg and Andy L"ucking `On Laughter and Forgetting and Reconversing: a neurologically-inspired model of conversational context. In: S. Malamud et al (eds) Proceedings of SemDial 2020
Zulipiye Yusupujiang and Jonathan Ginzburg, `Data Collection Design for Dialogue Systems for Low Resource Languages'. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems 2020 (IWSDS 2020), Madrid.
Zulipiye Yusupujiang and Jonathan Ginzburg, `Designing a GWAP for Collecting Naturally Produced Dialogues for Low Resourced Languages.' Proceedings of the LREC 2020 Workshop Games and Natural Language Processing, Marseille pages 44–48
Chiara Mazzocconi and Jonathan Ginzburg. `Laughter growing up.' In Proceedings of the Laughter Workshop 2020, Bielefeld, Germany
Jonathan Ginzburg and Chiara Mazzocconi .`Laughing about laughter: comparing conversational analysis, emotion psychology, and dialogical semantics'. In Proceedings of the Laughter Workshop 2020, Bielefeld, Germany
2019
Andy L"ucking, Robin Cooper, Staffan Larsson, and Jonathan Ginzburg `Distribution is not enough: going Firther' In: Larry Moss (ed.) Proceedings of NLCS 6, Gothenburg University Download
Christopher Cash and Jonathan Ginzburg `A Sigh of Positivity: An Annotation Scheme for Sighs in Dialogue'. In: Christine Howes, Julian Hough and Casey Kennington(eds.) Proceedings of SemDial 2019 (LondonLogue), Queen Mary, University of London.
Jonathan Ginzburg `Exclamative Sluices: evidence for semantically-based ellipsis resolution'. Presented at: Sinn und Bedeutung 2019, Osnabrück.
Jonathan Ginzburg, Zulipiye Yusupujiang, Chuyuan Li ,Kexin Ren, and Paweł Łupkowski `Characterizing the Response Space of Questions: a Corpus Study for English and Polish'. In: Proceedings of SigDial 2019, Stockholm.
Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper, Julian Hough, and David Schlangen ‘Incrementality and HPSG: Why not?' In: Anne Abeillé and Olivier Bonami Constraint-Based Syntax and Semantics: Papers in Honor of Danièle Godard
Andy L"ucking and Jonathan Ginzburg `Not few but all quantifiers can be negated: Towards a referentially transparent semantics of quantified noun phrases'. In: Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam
2018
Jonathan Ginzburg and Dimitra Kolliakou `Divergently Seeking Clarification: the emergence of clarification interaction'. Topics in Cognitive Science (2018) 10(2): 335-366 download
Jonathan Ginzburg and Philip Miller `Ellipsis in HPSG'. In: Jeroen van Craenenbrock and Tanja Temmerman (eds.) Handbook of Ellipsis Oxford University Press, New York (draft)
Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev, and Jonathan Ginzburg `Laughter Repair'. In: Proceedings of SemDial 2018
Vladislav Maraev, Jonathan Ginzburg, Staffan Larsson, Ye Tian, and Jean-Philippe Bernardy `Towards KoS/TTR-based proof-theoretic dialogue management' In: Proceedings of SemDial 2018
Kwong-Cheong Wong and Jonathan Ginzburg `Conversational types: a topological perspective'. In: Proceedings of SemDial 2018
2017
Ye Tian and Jonathan Ginzburg ` `No I Am': What are you saying `No' to?', In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2016, Edinburgh. pre-print version
Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper, Julian Hough, and David Schlangen ‘Incrementality and Clarification/Sluicing potential’. In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2016, Edinburgh. pre-print version
Paweł Łupkowski and Jonathan Ginzburg `Query Responses' Journal of Language Modelling 4(2),pp. 245-292. download
Ginzburg, Jonathan. “Questions.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Ed. Mark Aronoff. New York: Oxford University Press. Link
Ye Tian and Takehiko Maruyama and Jonathan Ginzburg `Filled Pauses and Self Addressed Questions' Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 46:905-922 download pre-print version
2016
Jonathan Ginzburg and Massimo Poesio `Grammar is a system that characterizes talk in interaction', Frontiers in Psychology, section Language Sciences. Abstract, Download
Ye Tian, Julian Hough, Laura de Ruiter, Simon Betz, David Schlangen, Jonathan Ginzburg `DUEL: A Multi-lingual Multimodal Dialogue Corpus for Disfluency, Exclamations and Laughter’, Proceedings of LREC 2016, Portorož, Slovenia.
Chiara Mazzocconi,Ye Tian, and Jonathan Ginzburg ‘A multi-layered analysis of Laughter’. In: Proceedings of SemDial 2016 (JerSem), the 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Rutgers.
Ye Tian, Chiara Mazzocconi, and Jonathan Ginzburg ‘When do we laugh?’. In: Proceedings of SigDial 2016, the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, ICT/USC.
`The Semantics of Dialogue' In: Maria Aloni and Paul Dekker (eds) Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics, Cambridge University Press
2015
Jonathan Ginzburg and Ellen Breitholz and Robin Cooper and Julian Hough and Ye Tian `Understanding Laughter'. In: Thomas Brochhagen, Floris Roelofsen & Nadine Theiler(eds.) Proceedings of the 2015 Amsterdam Colloquium.
Ye Tian and Claire Beyssade and Yannick Mathieu and Jonathan Ginzburg ‘Editing Phrases’. In: Chris Howes and Staffan Larsson (eds.) Proceedings of SemDial 2015 (GoDial), Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, August 2015, pp. 149-156.
Julian Hough, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen, and Jonathan Ginzburg `Incremental Semantics for Dialogue Processing: Requirements, and a Comparison of Two Approaches'. In: Proceedings of IWCS 2015, QMUL, London.
Robin Cooper and Jonathan Ginzburg `TTR for Natural Language Semantics' In: Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin (ed.) Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, second edition , Blackwell: Oxford.
2014
Jonathan Ginzburg and Robin Cooper `Quotation via Dialogical Interaction' Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, 23(3): 287-311, doi:10.1007/s10849-014-9200-5
(fixes a typo from the printed version w/r to the formula in (31c); thanks to Eleni Gregoromichelaki for noting this.)
Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper, and Tim Fernando `Propositions, Questions, and Adjectives: a type theoretic approach'. In: Dobnik et al Proceedings of the first EACL workshop on Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics, Gothenburg, April 2014.download
Jonathan Ginzburg, Raquel Fernández and David Schlangen `Disfluencies as intra-utterance moves'. Semantics and Pragmatics 7 (9):1--64
Sara Moradlou and Jonathan Ginzburg `Learning to Understand Questions'. In: Philippe Muller and Verena Rieser (eds.) Proceedings of SemDial 2014 (DialWatt), Heriott Watt University, Edinburgh, September 2014
2013
Kwong-Cheong Wong and Jonathan Ginzburg `Investigating Non-Sentential Utterances in a Spoken Chinese Corpus'. In: Proceedings of PACLING 2013, Tokyo September 2013. download
Pawel Lupkowski and Jonathan Ginzburg `A Corpus-based Taxonomy of Question Responses', Proceedings of IWCS 2013 (International Workshop on Computational Semantics), Potsdam, Germany. download poster
Jonathan Ginzburg, Raquel Fernández and David Schlangen Self-Addressed Questions in Disfluencies. In Proceedings of DiSS 2013: The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech. Stockholm, Sweden.
Jonathan Ginzburg and Sara Moradlou `The earliest utterances in dialogue: towards a formal theory of parent/child talk in interaction'. In: Proceedings of SemDial 2013 (DialDam). Download
2012
Jonathan Ginzburg and Matthew Purver ‘Quantification, the Reprise Content Hypothesis, and Type Theory’ (2012) In: Lars Borin and Staffan Larsson (eds.) From Quantification to Conversation, College Publications, London, pp. 85-110. download
Cooper, Robin and Jonathan Ginzburg Negative inquisitiveness and alternatives-based negation, in: Maria Aloni, Floris Roelofsen, Galit Weidman Sassoon, Katrin Schulz, Vadim Kimmelman and Matthijs Westera (eds.)
Logic, Language and Meaning, Springer, Berlin, pp. 32-41. Download
Ginzburg, Jonathan and Raquel Fernández and David Schlangen `On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dysfluency', in: Maria Aloni, Floris Roelofsen, Galit Weidman Sassoon, Katrin Schulz, Vadim Kimmelman and Matthijs Westera (eds.)
Logic, Language and Meaning, Springer, Berlin, pp. 321-330. Download
2011
`How to resolve how to', In: John Bengson and Marc Moffett (eds.) Knowing How: Essays on Mind, Knowledge, and Action Oxford: Oxford University Press. Download
Cooper, Robin and Jonathan Ginzburg `Negation in Dialogue', in SemDial 2011 (Los Angelogue): Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, ed. by Ron Artstein, Mark Core, David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila, Elsi Kaiser and Amanda Stent Download
`Situation Semantics: From Indexicality to Metacommunicative Interaction.' In: Portner, Maierborn, von Heusinger (eds.) The Handbook of Semantics de Gruyter Download
`Situation Semantics and the Ontology of Natural Language.' In: Portner, Maierborn, von Heusinger (eds.) The Handbook of Semantics de Gruyter ` Download
2010
Jonathan Ginzburg and Raquel Fernández `Computational Models of Dialogue'. In: Alex Clark, Chris Fox, and Shalom Lappin (eds.) Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Blackwells Download
A description of the main issues surrounding dialogue processing, a survey of existing computational systems, and a sketch of solutions within KoS.
`Questions:Logic and Interaction.' In van Benthem and ter Meulen (eds.) Handbook of Logic and Language, 2nd Edition Elsevier Download
2009
Jonathan Ginzburg and Dimitra Kolliakou `Answers before Questions: the emergence of fragments in natural language.' The Journal of Linguistics , 45:641-673, copyright Cambridge University Press. Download
2008
Zoran Macura and Jonathan Ginzburg `Dynamics and Adaptiveness of Metacommunicative Interaction in a Foraging Environment'. In Ruth Kempson and Robin Cooper Language in Flux: Dialogue Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution College Publications, London. Download
2007
Jonathan Ginzburg and Raquel Fernandez and David Schlangen `Unifying Self- and Other- Repair'. In: Proceedings of Decalog 2007, Rovereto. Download
Extends the analysis of Clarification interaction to self-correction.
Raquel Fernandez and Jonathan Ginzburg and Shalom Lappin `Classifying Non-sentential utterances in Dialogue Using Machine Learning' Computational Linguistics 33(3): 397-427 Download
2006
Jonathan Ginzburg and Zoran Macura `Lexical Acquisition with and without metacommunication'. In: Caroline Lyon et al (eds.)The Emergence of Communication and Language, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 287-301. ISBN-10: 1-84628-491-0. Download
Zoran Macura and Jonathan Ginzburg `Acquiring words across generations: introspectively or interactively? '. In: Brandial'06 : Proceedings of the 10th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (SemDial-10) / ed. By David Schlangen ; Raquel Fernández. - Univ.-Verl. : Potsdam, 2006. Download
[With Raquel Fernandez, Howard Gregory, and Shalom Lappin] "SHARDS: Fragment resolution in dialogue." In: H. Bunt and R.Muskens, editors, Computing Meaning, volume~3. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Describes SHARDS, a computational dialogue ellipsis system. Download
2005
`Abstraction and Ontology: questions as propositional abstracts in type theory with records'. Journal of Logic and Computation 15:2, 113--118 Download
`Situation Semantics: the ontological balance sheet'. Research on Language and Computation 3(4): 363-389 Download
Jonathan Ginzburg and Raquel Fernandez `Scaling up to multilogue: some benchmarks and principles', In: Proceedings of the 43rd meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Download
Jonathan Ginzburg and Raquel Fernandez `Action at a distance: the difference between dialogue and multilogue'. In: Proceedings of Dialor '05, LORIA, Nancy. Download
2004
Jonathan Ginzburg and Robin Cooper "Clarification, Ellipsis, and the Nature of Contextual Updates" [Linguistics and Philosophy, 27:3, pp. 297-366] Download
A detailed analysis of Clarification Ellipsis and its implications for dynamic semantics.
"Intrinsic Misalignment in Dialogue: why there is no unique context in a conversation" [Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 27, p. 197-199]. Download
A commentary on Pickering and Garrod's BBS paper.
Raquel Fernandez and Jonathan Ginzburg and Shalom Lappin `Classifying Ellipsis in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach'. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLing).Download
Matthew Purver and Jonathan Ginzburg "Clarifying Noun Phrase Semantics". Journal of Semantics, Download
Extends the account of Clarification Ellipsis to NPs in general, including generalized quantifiers. The paper offers a new perspective on long standing semantic debates: NPs are taken as functional sets rather than generalised quantifiers, with definites and indefinites distinguished by differences in contextual parameter projection.
2003
Matthew Purver and Jonathan Ginzburg and Patrick Healey "On the means for Clarification in Dialogue", In: R. Smith and J. van Kuppevelt, editors, New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
A corpus study of the range of clarifications that can follow an utterance. Download
"Disentangling public from private meaning", In: R. Smith and J. van Kuppevelt, editors, New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Download
Analyzes clarification requests that pertain to a conversational participant's non-public intentions, the commonest being the bare Why? Demonstrates that the information Why? is seeking is a `useful extra', not an essential ingredient required for providing an appropriate response.
Matthew Purver, Patrick Healey, James King, Jonathan Ginzburg and Greg Mills. `Answering Clarification Questions'. In: Proceedings of the 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue,pages 23-33, Sapporo. Download
Describes what later became the Dialogue Experimental Tool (DiET)
Jonathan Ginzburg and Ivan A. Sag and Matthew Purver "Integrating Conversational Move Types in the Grammar of Conversation", In: P.K"uhnlein and Hannes Reiser and Henk Zeevat editors, Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium, John Benjamins, Amsterdam
Some linguistic arguments for adding illocutionary force information into the grammar and an HPSG implementation.
2002
(with Raquel Fernandéz) `A corpus study of Non-sentential utterances in dialogue' In: Traîtement Automatique de Languages, 43-2:12-43 Download
(with Robin Cooper) "Clarification Ellipsis in Dependent Type Theory", In:J. Bos and C. Matheson, editors, Proceedings of Edilog,the 6th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue,University of Edinburgh, September 2002
Reformulates the account of Clarification Ellipsis in Dependent Type Theory Download
2001
"Fragmenting Meaning: Clarification Ellipsis and Nominal Anaphora".
To appear in: H. Bunt et al. (eds) Computing Meaning, Vol 2,
Kluwer. Download
A description of the phenomenon of ``clarification ellipsis''
(A: Did Jill kowtow? B: kowtow?), its implications for the nature of semantic
representations, and a potential application of the revised notion of context for the theory
of nominal anaphora.
[With Robin Cooper] "Resolving Ellipsis in Clarification". In: Proceedings of the 39th meeting of the Assocation for Computational Linguistics,Toulouse. Download
A revised analysis of Clarification Ellipsis, introducing coercion on signs as a technique for generating clarifications.
Papers from the 1990s
My first article on dialogue:
[1994] `An Update Semantics for Dialogue'. In: H. Bunt et al. (eds) Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Computational Semantics,Tilburg, The Netherlands Download
[1995] `Interrogatives: Questions, Facts, and Dialogue' In: S. Lappin (ed.) Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory , Blackwell: Oxford. Download
[1995] `The Quantificational Variability Effect to some extent defused and
generalized'. In: J. Beckman (ed.), Proceedingsof NELS 25, GLSA, UMass, Amherst. Download
[1995] `Resolving Questions, I'. Linguistics and Philosophy 18:5, 459-527. Download
[1995] `Resolving Questions, II'. Linguistics and Philosophy 18:6, 567-609. Download
[1996]`Dynamics and the Semantics of Dialogue'. In: J. Seligman (ed.) Language, Logic and Computation, Volume 1,
CSLI Lecture Notes, CSLI: Stanford. Download
[1997] "On some Semantic Consequences of Turn Taking". In: P. Dekker et al (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam
Colloquium. Download
Discusses a puzzle that apparently shows that in dialogue participants do not entirely share the context at all times.
[1998] "Clarifying Utterances" In: J. Hulstijn and A. Nijholt (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Twente.
Characterizes the range of clarifications that can follow an utterance.