Andrew Kehler

About

I’m a Professor in the Linguistics Department at UC San Diego. I direct one of the department’s Computational Linguistics Labs, which is highly interdisciplinary, focusing primarily (but not only) on pragmatics and discourse interpretation, studied from the perspectives of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics.

Research topics

• Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Linguistics
• Psychology
• Cognitive psychology
• Cognitive science
• Philosophy
• Communication

Selected publications

• Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

  2015-07-22 · 240 citations

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• Evaluating an Expectation-Driven Question-Under-Discussion Model of Discourse Interpretation

  Discourse Processes · 2016-04-04 · 74 citations

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  According to Question-Under-Discussion (QUD) models of discourse interpretation, clauses cohere with the preceding context by virtue of providing answers to (usually implicit) questions that are situated within a speaker's goal-driven strategy of inquiry. In this article we present four experiments that examine the predictions of a QUD model of interpretation when cast in terms of an integrated, expectation-driven model of discourse processing. The results of these studies together support the p…

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• Coherence-Driven Constraints on the Placement of Accent

  Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory · 2015-04-03 · 61 citations

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• Prominence and coherence in a Bayesian theory of pronoun interpretation

  Journal of Pragmatics · 2018-05-23 · 51 citations

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• Grammatical and pragmatic factors in the interpretation of Japanese null and overt pronouns

  Linguistics · 2016-11-01 · 28 citations

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  Abstract Pronoun interpretation in English has been demonstrated to be sensitive to an interaction between grammatical and pragmatically driven factors. This study investigated the interpretation of pronouns in Japanese, which has both null and overt forms. Thirty-two native speakers of Japanese per experiment participated in passage completion studies with transfer-of-possession contexts (Experiment 1) or implicit causality contexts (Experiment 2), varying prompt type, aspect, and topic/nominat…

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Frequent coauthors

• Hannah Rohde

  27 shared

• Jerry R. Hobbs

  18 shared

• Douglas E. Appelt

  11 shared

• John Bear

  University of Arizona

  9 shared

• David Israël

  Goddard Space Flight Center

  8 shared

• Megumi Kameyama

  Gifu Pharmaceutical University

  8 shared

• Jeffrey L. Elman

  University of California, San Diego

  6 shared

• Gregory Ward

  5 shared

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