Exposed disagreement is extremely rare in natural dialogue. Although informal argumentation features frequently in natural dialogue, the ways in which individuals make and evidence claims and position their opinions in ...

One of the fundamental requirements for models of semantic processing in dialogue is incrementality: a model must reflect how people interpret and generate language at least on a word-by-word basis, and handle phenomena ...

We investigate the relationship between lexical spaces and contextually-defined conceptual spaces, offering applications to creative concept discovery. We define a computational method for discovering members of concepts ...