Dr. Anton Benz

Dr. Anton Benz is a senior researcher in the Research Area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics'. He is also principal investigator of the following projects:

• DFG project QUD Gen - Propositional and Non-at-issue Content in Text Generation: Exploring the QUD–Perspective
• DFG Project SIGames 2 - Experimental Game Theory and Scalar Implicatures

The main research area of Anton Benz is game theory in pragmatics. He works on conversational implicature and applications in productivity in question-answer systems. He combines theoretical modelling with experimental and computational methods.