Papers & Presentations

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Papers & Publications

2023

Williamson, G., Cao, A., Chen, Y., Ji, Y., Xu, L., & Choi, J. D. (2023). Exploring a Multi-Layered Cross-Genre Corpus of Document-Level Semantic Relations. Information, 14(8), 431.

Feng, L., Williamson, G., He, H., & Choi, J. D. (2023). Widely Interpretable Semantic Representation: Frameless Meaning Representation for Broader Applicability. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06460.

2022

Ji, Y., Williamson, G. & Choi, J. (2022). Automatic Enrichment of Abstract Meaning Representations. LAW-XVI at LREC-2022.

Cao, A., Williamson, G. & Choi, J. (2022). A Cognitive Approach to Annotating Causal Constructions in a Cross-Genre Corpus. LAW-XVI at LREC-2022.

2021

Williamson, G. (2021). Worlds of the Future: Modality and Future Licensing at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. UCL Doctoral Dissertation.

Williamson, G., Elliott, P., Ji, Y. & Choi, J. (2021). Intensionalizing Abstract Meaning Representations: Non-Veridicality and Scope. LAW-DMR in the proceedings of EMNLP 2021.

Choi, J. D., & Williamson, G. (2021). Streamside: A fully-customizable open-source toolkit for efficient annotation of meaning representations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09853.

2019

Williamson, G. (2019). The temporal orientation of infinitives. In M. Teresa Espinal et al. (eds.). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23, 2. 461-478.

Williamson, G. (2019). Conditional antecedents as polar free relatives. In K. Blake et al. (eds.). Proceedings of SALT 29. 496-508.

2018

Mourounas, M. & Williamson, G. (2018). Aspectual verbs: simple semantics + variable composition. LangUE proceedings 2018. 29-38.

Mourounas, M. & Williamson, G. (2018). Aspectual verbs and the (anti-)causative alternation: Deriving the raising/control ambiguity.

2017

Williamson, G. (2017). Doxastic diversity and covert temporal operators. UCLWPL, 29. 42-58.

Conference & Workshop Presentations

Oral presentations

2022

A Cognitive Approach to Annotating Causal Constructions in a Cross-Genre Corpus ∙ Joint work with Angela Cao, and Jinho Choi ∙ Presented by Angela Cao ∙ LAW XVI at LREC 2022 ∙ Marseilles, France

Automatic Enrichment of Abstract Meaning Representations ∙ Joint work with Yuxin Ji, and Jinho Choi ∙ Presented by Yuxin Ji ∙ LAW XVI at LREC 2022Marseilles, France

2021

Intensionalizing Abstract Meaning Representations: Non-Veridicality and Scope ∙ Joint work with Patrick Elliott, Yuxin Ji, and Jinho Choi LAW-DMR at EMNLP 2021 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

2019

Adverbial adjunct clauses and their LFs ∙ GLOW 42 ∙ University of Oslo, Norway

Adverbial adjunct clauses and their LFs ∙ PLC 43 ∙ UPenn, Philadelphia USA

2018

The cross-categorial mereology of aspectual verbs ∙ Joint work with Michael Mourounas ∙ ReSSP ∙ Catalonia, Spain

The temporal orientation of infinitives ∙ LAGB 2018 ∙ University of Sheffield, UK

The temporal orientation of infinitives ∙ Sinn und Bedeutung 23 ∙ UAB Barcelona, Spain

Aspectual verbs: Simple semantics + variable composition ∙ Joint work with Michael Mourounas ∙ LangUE ∙ University of Essex, UK

The temporal orientation of infinitival complements to attitude predicates ∙ Workshop on attitude predicates ∙ UCL London, UK

Aspectual verbs: Simple semantics + variable composition ∙ With Michael Mourounas ∙ LELPGC18 ∙ University of Edinburgh, UK

Bouletic ascriptions, (counter)factivity, and clause types ∙ UCL PhD day ∙ UCL London, UK

Time without Tense: What modal auxiliaries can teach us about infinitives ∙ LSD 5 ∙ Queen Mary University London, UK

2017

Pair-list readings of quantifiers with questions ∙ Commentary on talk by Thom van Gessel ∙ PALLMYR XI ∙ UCL London, UK

Poster presentations

2019

Conditional antecedents as polar free relatives ∙ SALT 29 ∙ UCLA, California USA

Reading Group Presentations

2021

Bos (2020) Separating Argument Structure from Logical Structure in AMR ∙ Emory Computational Linguistics Reading Group ∙ Emory, Atlanta USA

Onion Graphs: Multi-Layered Meaning Representations ∙ Emory NLP Lab ∙ Emory, Atlanta USA

2020

*Perfect permission ∙ Joint work with Neil Banerjee ∙ LingSoc ∙ UCL, London, UK

2019

The highs and lows of adverbial relative clauses ∙ Presented by co-author Richard Stockwell ∙ SynSem ∙ UCLA, California USA

Conditional antecedents as polar free relatives ∙ LFRG ∙ MIT, Massachusetts USA

Meier (2001) Multihead comparatives and result clause constructions with "split antecedents" ∙ With Keny Chatain ∙ Topics in Semantics ∙ MIT, Massachusetts USA

Conditionals at the syntax-semantics interface ∙ SRG ∙ UCL London, UK

2018

Attitudes and time ∙ Seminar on attitude predicates with Angelika Kratzer ∙ UCL London, UK

Aspectual verbs: Simple semantics + variable composition ∙ With Michael Mourounas ∙ SRG ∙ UCL London, UK

Antipresuppositions & maximize presupposition! ∙ Presupposition research seminar ∙ UCL London, UK

2017

Pancheva & von Stechow (2004) On the present perfect puzzle ∙ Aspect reading group ∙ UCL London, UK

Future oriented infinitives ∙ SRG ∙ UCL London, UK

Reflexive thought and pronominal anaphora ∙ De se reading group ∙ UCL London, UK

Landau (2016) Agreement at PF ∙ SRG ∙ UCL London, UK