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I have defended my thesis on November 22nd, 2021. My manuscript can be found here: https:\/\/hal.archives-ouvertes.fr\/tel-03541628\/<\/a>. I am always happy to discuss matters related to this work, feel free to contact me!<\/h2>\n

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Formal studies of discourse raise numerous interrogations on the nature and the definition of the way consecutive sentences coherently combine with one another. Language is intrinsically dynamic: in its semantics in context (e.g. use of references) and in the interaction (e.g. connections between dialogue acts). The shift from discourse to dialogue brings forward even more specific issues among which the ones related to questions and answers articulation. In order to address these issues, we start by focusing on questions from a semantic point of view. There are numerous existing formalisms and frameworks for formal semantics of declarative sentences and discourse; dialogue is broadly studied from a linguistic and Natural Language Processing point of view. The goal of our work is to bring classical formal semantics theories to use in a setting oriented towards real-life dialogue. This thesis presents a formal semantics account of dialogue in a type-theoretical dynamic framework. We produce a model of dialogue and in particular of the articulation of questions and answers by mingling Neo-Davidsonian Event Semantics (NDES, as presented in Champollion, 2017) with Inquisitive Semantics (IS, Ciardelli et al, 2017) in a compositional and dynamic way through the use of Continuation Style Dynamic Semantics (CSDS, de Groote, 2006, extended in Lebedeva, 2012). Our model is rooted in a syntax-semantics interface implementation called Abstract Categorial Grammars (ACG, de Groote, 2001). Another way to address semantics of dialogue is through real-life data by putting our formal ideas in perspective by confronting them with field observation. To do so, we constituted a corpus, called Dialogues in Games (DinG), composed of transcriptions of recordings of people playing the board game Catan (in French). Our study focuses on real-life questions and answers in multilingual (English, French, Dutch, Mexican Spanish, Northern Italian, and Mandarin Chinese) oral data has resulted in several annotation schema, part of which was applied to DinG.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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L\u2019e\u0301tude formelle du discours soule\u0300ve de nombreuses interrogations lie\u0301es a\u0300 la nature et a\u0300 la de\u0301finition des phrases et de la manie\u0300re dont une suite de phrases s\u2019articule pour former un discours cohe\u0301rent. Le langage est intrinse\u0300quement dynamique : dans sa se\u0301mantique en contexte (par exemple, l\u2019utilisation de re\u0301fe\u0301rences) et dans l\u2019interaction (par exemple, les liens entre les actes de dialogue). Le passage du discours au dialogue donne lieu a\u0300 des questions plus spe\u0301cifiques en particulier lie\u0301es a\u0300 la relation entre les questions et les re\u0301ponses. Afin d\u2019aborder ces the\u0301matiques, nous nous concentrons sur la se\u0301mantique des questions. Il existe de nombreux formalismes et cadres de travail pour la se\u0301mantique formelle des phrases de\u0301claratives et du discours ; le dialogue, pour sa part, est largement e\u0301tudie\u0301 d\u2019un point de vue linguistique et traitement automatique des langues. L\u2019objectif de notre travail est d\u2019utiliser les the\u0301ories classiques de se\u0301mantique formelle dans un cadre oriente\u0301 vers le dialogue re\u0301el. Cette the\u0300se pre\u0301sente une formalisation se\u0301mantique du dialogue dans une the\u0301orie dynamique des types simples. Nous produisons des mode\u0300les du dialogue, et en particulier de l\u2019articulation des questions et des re\u0301ponses, en me\u0302lant la Neo-Davidsonian Event Semantics (NDES, telle que pre\u0301sente\u0301e dans (Champollion, 2017)) a\u0300 la Inquisitive Semantics (IS, Ciardelli et al, 2018) de manie\u0300re compositionnelle et dynamique a\u0300 travers l\u2019usage de la Continuation Style Dynamic Semantics (CSDS, de Groote, 2006, e\u0301tendue dans Lebedeva, 2012). Notre mode\u0300le est ancre\u0301 dans une imple\u0301mentation d\u2019interface syntaxe-se\u0301mantique appele\u0301e Abstract Categorial Grammars (ACG, de Groote, 2001). Une autre fac\u0327on d\u2019aborder la se\u0301mantique du dialogue est de s\u2019inte\u0301resser aux donne\u0301es re\u0301elles, ce qui permet de mettre en perspective nos ide\u0301es formelles et de les confronter aux observations. Pour ce faire, nous avons constitue\u0301 un corpus, appele\u0301 Dialogues in Games (DinG), compose\u0301 de transcriptions d\u2019enregistrements de personnes jouant au jeu de socie\u0301te\u0301 Catane (en franc\u0327ais). Nos e\u0301tudes, centre\u0301es sur les questions et les re\u0301ponses dans des donne\u0301es orales multilingues (anglais, franc\u0327ais, ne\u0301erlandais, espagnol mexicain, italien du nord et mandarin), a donne\u0301 lieu a\u0300 plusieurs sche\u0301mas d\u2019annotation, dont une partie a e\u0301te\u0301 applique\u0301e a\u0300 DinG.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

References<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

(Champollion, 2017) Champollion, L. (2017). Parts of a whole: Distributivity as a bridge between aspect and measurement<\/i> (Vol. 66). Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

(Ciardelli et al, 2017) Ciardelli, I., Roelofsen, F., & Theiler, N. (2017). Composing alternatives. Linguistics and Philosophy<\/i>, 40<\/i>(1), 1-36.<\/p>\n

(de Groote, 2006) de Groote, P. (2006). Towards a Montagovian account of dynamics. In M. Gibson and J. Howell, editors, Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XVI. Cornel Univesity, Ithaca, NY.<\/p>\n

(Lebedeva, 2012) E. Lebedeva (2012). Expression de la dynamique du discours \u00e0 l\u2019aide de continuations. Th\u00e8se de doctorat, Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine.<\/p>\n

(de Groote, 2001) De Groote, P. (2001, July). Towards abstract categorial grammars. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics<\/i> (pp. 252-259).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have defended my thesis on November 22nd, 2021. My manuscript can be found here: https:\/\/hal.archives-ouvertes.fr\/tel-03541628\/<\/a>. I am always happy to discuss matters related to this work, feel free to contact me!
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