Discourse and anaphora

How do we build a rich meaningful narrative by stringing together sentences? What are the processes that create coherence between the building blocks of discourse? I am particularly interested in anaphora and how we keep track of the individuals, entities, events and facts that we refer to in our daily use of language.

Publications

2025

  1. Memory Retrieval in Discourse: Illusions of Coherence during Presupposition Resolution
    T. Schmitz, Rick Nouwen, and Jakub Dotlačil
    Journal of Memory and Language, 2025
    DOI
  2. Can LLMs Detect Ambiguous Plural Reference? An Analysis of Split-Antecedent and Mereological Reference
    A. Dang, Rick Nouwen, and Massimo Poesio
    In Proceedings of BlackboxNLP, 2025
    arXiv

2024

  1. Searching for semantic distance effects
    J. Winkowski, Rick Nouwen, and Jakub Dotlačil
    Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2024
    Website
  2. Semantic accessibility and interference in pronoun resolution
    T. Schmitz, J. Winkowski, M. Hoeks, Rick Nouwen, and Jakub Dotlačil
    Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2024
    Website

2020

  1. E-type discourse: congressmen, sheep and paychecks
    Rick Nouwen
    In The Companion to Semantics, 2020
    PDF

2016

  1. Dynamic Semantics
    Rick Nouwen, Adrian Brasoveanu, Jan Eijck, and Albert Visser
    In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2016
    Website

2007

  1. On Dependent Discourse and Dynamic Semantics
    Rick Nouwen
    Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2007
    Website

2004

  1. On Dependency and Quantification in Dynamic Semantics
    Rick Nouwen
    In New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Joint Proceedings of the 17th and 18th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2004

2003

  1. Complement Anaphora and Interpretation
    Rick Nouwen
    Journal of Semantics, 2003
    Website