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Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Slăvuțeanu & Anton Benz. 2024. The role of intonation and context in lack of necessity meanings in negated deontic necessity modals in child Romanian. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 33), 541-562.

Bleotu, Adina, Rodica Ivan, Andreea C. Nicolae, Gabriela Bilbiie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu & Lyn Tieu. 2023. Not all complex disjunctions are alike: On inclusive and conjunctive interpretations in child Romanian. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 45, 3062-3069.

Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz & Roxana Pătrunjel. 2023. You must worry! The interpretation of mustn’t varies with context and verbal complement. Proceedings of ELM 2, 24-35.

Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz & Nicole Gotzner. 2022. Romanian 5-year-olds derive global but not local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs: Evidence from a shadow play paradigm. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26, 149-164.

Gotzner, Nicole & Anton Benz. 2022. Implicatures in (non-)monotonic environments. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26, 340-348.

Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz & Gabriela Brozbǎ. 2022. Interdiction as a primary reading of negated deontic necessity in child Romanian. Linguistic Evidence 2022, 25-28.

Yatsushiro, Kazuko, Tue Trinh, Marzena Żygis, Stephanie Solt, Anton Benz & Manfred Krifka. 2022. Certainly but not certain: The expression of subjective and objective probability. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1), 1-48.

Hesse, Christoph, Maurice Langner, Ralf Klabunde & Anton Benz. 2022. Testing Focus and Non-at-issue Frameworks with a Question-under-Discussion-Annotated Corpus. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). Marseille, France, June 2022, 5212-5219.

Hesse, Christoph, Maurice Langner, Anton Benz & Ralf Klabunde. 2021. Discrepancies Between Database- and Pragmatically Driven NLG: Insights from QUD-Based Annotations. LDK 2021: 3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs) 93, 32:1-32:9.

Benz, Anton. 2021. Epistemic Perspectives and Communicative Acts. Frontiers in Communication (6), Art. 612733, pp. 1-20.

Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz & Nicole Gotzner. 2021. Where truth and optimality part. Experiments on implicatures with epistemic adverbs. Proceedings of ELM 1, 47-58.

Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz & Nicole Gotzner. 2021. Shadow playing with Romanian 5-year-olds. Epistemic adverbs are a kind of magic!. Proceedings of ELM 1, 59-70.

Hesse, Christoph, Anton Benz, Maurice Langner, Felix Theodor & Ralf Klabunde. 2020. Annotating QUDs for generating pragmatically rich texts. Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning, 10-16.

Benz, Anton & Nicole Gotzner. 2020. Embedded Implicature: what can be left unsaid?. Linguistics and Philosophy.

Hesse, Christoph & Anton Benz. 2020. Scalar bounds and expected values of comparatively modified numerals. Journal of Memory and Language 111 (April 2020), Article 104068.

Benz, Anton & Nicole Gotzner. 2019. Quantifier irgendein and local implicatures. In Nicolae, Andreea C., Patrick D. Elliot & Yasutata Sudo (eds.), Snippets 37. Special issue in honor of Uli Sauerland, 10-12.

Hesse, Christoph, Maryam Mohammadi, Maurice Langner, Judith Fischer, Anton Benz & Ralf Klabunde. 2018. Communicating an understanding of intention: Speech act conditionals and modified numerals in a Q/A system. Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 103-111.

Gotzner, Nicole, Stephanie Solt & Anton Benz. 2018. Adjectival scales and three types of implicature. Proceedings of the 28th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 28), 409-432.

Benz, Anton & Nicole Gotzner. 2018. Embedded Disjunctions and the Best Response Paradigm. In Truswell, Robert, Chris Cummins, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern & Hannah Rohde (eds.). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh.

Hesse, Christoph & Anton Benz. 2018. Giving the wrong impression: Strategic use of comparatively modified numerals in a question answering system. Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), 148-157.

Gotzner, Nicole, Stephanie Solt & Anton Benz. 2018. Scalar diversity, negative strengthening and adjectival semantics. Frontiers in Psychology, Research Topic Scalar Implicature 9, Article 1659.

Benz, Anton, Carla Bombi & Nicole Gotzner. 2018. Scalar diversity and negative strengthening.
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 1.ZAS Papers in Linguistics (ZASPiL 60), 191-203.

Benz, Anton, Nicole Gotzner & Lisa Raithel. 2018. Embedded implicature in a new interactive paradigm.
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 1.ZAS Papers in Linguistics (ZASPiL 60), 205-221.

Gotzner, Nicole & Anton Benz. 2018. The Best Response Paradigm: A New Approach to Test Implicatures of Complex Sentences. Frontiers in Communication 2, Article 21.

Benz, Anton & Jon Stevens. 2018. Game-Theoretic Approaches to Pragmatics. Annual review of linguistics 4, 173-191.

Benz, Anton & Katja Jasinskaja. 2017. Questions Under Discussion: From Sentence to Discourse. Discourse processes 54(3), 177-186.

Benz, Anton. 2017. Pragmatics between Experiment and Rationality: Response to Chapman. In Depraetere, Ilse & Raphael Salkie (eds.). Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line, 75-84. Cham: Springer.

Stevens, Jon, Anton Benz, Sebastian Reuße & Ralf Klabunde. 2016. Pragmatic question answering: A game-theoretic approach. Data & Knowledge Engeneering 106, 52-69.

Benz, Anton. 2016. On Bayesian pragmatics and categorical predictions. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 35(1), 45-55.

Stevens, Jon, Anton Benz, Sebastian Reuße & Ralf Klabunde. 2015. A Strategic Reasoning Model for Generating Alternative Answers. In ACL (ed.). Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 534-542. Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics.

Benz, Anton. 2015. Causal Bayesian Networks, Signalling Games and Implicature of 'more than n'. In Zeevat, Henk & Hans-Christian Schmitz (eds.). Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics, 25-42. Heidelberg: Springer.

Stevens, Jon, Anton Benz, Sebastian Reuße, Ralf Klabunde & Lisa Raithel. 2015. Pragmatic query answering: Results from a quantitative evaluation. In Biemann, Chris, Siegfried Handschuh, André Freitas, Farid Meziane & Elisabeth Métais (eds.). Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (LNCS), 110-123. Heidelberg: Springer.

Stevens, Jon Scott, Anton Benz, Sebastian Reuße, Ronja Laarmann-Quante & Ralf Klabunde. 2014. Indirect answers as potential solutions to decision problems. In Rieser, Verena & Philippe Muller (eds.). Proceedings of DialWatt - SemDial 2014, 145-153. Edinburgh: Universität Edinburgh.

Benz, Anton & Nicole Gotzner. 2014. Embedded implicatures revisited: Issues with the Truth-Value Judgment Paradigm. In Degen, Judith, Michael Franke & Noah D. Goodman (eds.). Proceedings of the Formal & Experimental Pragmatics Workshop, 1-6. Tübingen: Universität Tübingen.

Benz, Anton. 2014. Ergativity and the Object-oriented Representation of Verb Meaning. In Robering, Klaus (ed.). Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs, 65-88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benz, Anton, Katja Jasinskaja & Fabienne Salfner. 2013. Implicature and discourse structure: An introduction. In Benz, Anton, Katja Jasinskaja & Fabienne Salfner (eds.). Lingua 132, 1-12. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Benz, Anton, Katja Jasinskaja & Fabienne Salfner (eds.). 2013. Implicature and discourse structure. Lingua 132. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Benz, Anton & Fabienne Salfner. 2013. Discourse Structuring Questions and Scalar Implicatures. In Guram Bezhanishvili, Sebastian Löbner, Vincenzo Marra & Frank Richter (eds.). Logic, Language, and Computation. 9th international Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2011, LNCS 7758, 35-50. Berlin: Springer.

Benz, Anton. 2012. On a super large fixed-point of common information in multi-agent signalling games. Logic Journal of the IGPL 20(1), 94-120.

Benz, Anton. 2012. Errors in Pragmatics. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 21, 97-116.

Benz, Anton, Katja Jasinskaja, & Uli Sauerland. 2012. Theoretical Pragmatics: An Introduction. International Review of Pragmatics 4(2), 133-152.

Anton Benz, Manfred Stede & Peter Kühnlein (eds.). 2012. Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and Inferring Discourse Structure. Pragmatics and beyond new series 223. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benz, Anton, Katja Jasinskaja, & Uli Sauerland (eds.). 2012. Special issue: Theoretical Pragmatics. International Review of Pragmatics 4(2). Leiden: Brill.

Benz, Anton. 2012. Implicature of complex sentences in error models. In Andrea C. Schalley (ed.). Practical Theories and Empirical Practice , 273-306. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benz, Anton & Manfred Stede. 2012. Introduction to constraints in discourse. In Anton Benz, Manfred Stede & Kühnlein, Peter(eds.). Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and Inferring Discourse Structure, 1-16. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benz, Anton, Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger & Robert van Rooij (eds.). 2011. Language, games, and evolution. Trends in current research on language and game theory. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6207. Heidelberg: Springer.

Benz, Anton & Jason Mattausch (eds.). 2011. Bidirectional Optimality Theory. Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 180. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benz, Anton, Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger & Robert van Rooij. 2011. Language, games, and evolution: An introduction. In Anton Benz, Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger & Robert van Rooij (eds.). Language, Games, and Evolution. Trends in Current Research on Language and Game Theory, 1-13. Heidelberg: Springer.

Benz, Anton. 2011. How to set up normal optimal answer models. In Anton Benz, Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger & Robert van Rooij (eds.). Language, Games, and Evolution. Trends in Current Research on Language and Game Theory, 14-39. Heidelberg: Springer.

Benz, Anton & Fabienne Salfner. 2011. Discourse relations and relevance implicatures: a case study. In Nick Bezhanishvili, Sebastian Löbner, Kerstin Schwabe & Luca Spada (eds.). Logic, Language, and Computation. 8th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2009, Bakuriani, Georgia, September 2009, Revisied Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) 6618, 182-196. Heidelberg: Springer.

Adolphs, Peter, Anton Benz, Núria Bertomeu Castelló, Xiwen Cheng, Tina Klüwer, Manfred Krifka, Alexandra Strekalova, Hans Uszkoreit & Feiyu Xu. 2011. Conversational Agents in a Virtual World. In Josha Bach & Stefan Edelkamp (eds.). KI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 34th Annual German Conference on AI Proceedings, 38-49. Berlin: Springer.

Benz, Anton & Jason Mattausch. 2011. Bidirectional Optimality Theory: An Introduction. In Anton Benz & Jason Mattausch (eds.). Bidirectional Optimality Theory, 1-32. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benz, Anton. 2011. On bidirectional Optimality Theory for dynamic contexts. In Anton Benz & Jason Mattausch (eds.). Bidirectional Optimality Theory, 249-275. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benz, Anton, Núria Bertomeu & Alexandra Strekalova . 2011. A decision-theoretic approach to finding optimal responses to over-constrained queries in a conceptual search space. In Ron Artstein, Mark Core, David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila, Elsi Kaiser & Amanda Stent (eds.). Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 37-46. Los Angeles: Institute for Creative Technologies.

Kühnlein, Peter, Anton Benz & Candace L. Sidner (eds.). 2010. Constraints in discourse 2. Pragmatics and beyond new series 194. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benz, Anton. 2010. Implicatures and the recognition of speaker intentions in a game theoretic model. In Luis A. Pérez Miranda & Aitor Izagirre Madariaga (eds.). Advances in cognitive science: learning, evolution, and social action. Proceedings of the ILCLI international workshop on cognitive science, IWCogSc 10, 15-34. Bilbao: University of the Basque Country Press.

Benz, Anton & Fabienne Salfner. 2010. Beobachtungen zum Zusammenhang zwischen skalaren Implikaturen und Diskursstruktur. In Bettina Bock (ed.). Aspekte der Sprachwissenschaft: Linguistik-Tage Jena, 167-176. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač.

Benz, Anton. 2010. Optimal completion and implicatures of complex sentences: a game theoretic approach. In Eric McCready (ed.). Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics, Lenls 7, 41-55. Tokyo: JSAI.

Beny, Anton & Reinhard Blutner (eds.). 2009. Papers on Pragmasemantics. ZAS Papers in Linguistics (ZASPiL 51). Berlin: ZAS.

Benz, Anton. 2009. Outline of the foundations for a theory of implicatures.
ZAS Papers in Linguistics (ZASPiL 51), 153-201.

Bertomeu, Núria & Anton Benz. 2009. Ontology based information states for an artificial sales agent. Proceedings of DiaHolmia: 2009 Workshop of Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 135-136.

Benz, Anton. 2009. Implicatures of irrelevant answers and the principle of optimal completion. In Peter Bosch, David Gabelaia & Jérôme Lang (eds.). Logic, language, and computation: 7th international Tbilisi symposium on logic, language, and computation, (Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5422), 95-109. Berlin: Springer.

Bertomeu, Núria & Anton Benz. 2009. Annotation of joint projects and information states in human-NPC dialogue. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Corpus Linguistics CILC 9, 723-740. Murcia:

Benz, Anton. 2009. On the suspension of implicatures. In László Kálmán (ed.). Proceedings of the 10th symposium on logic and language, 73-79. Budapest: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), and Theoretical Linguistics Program, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

Benz, Anton & Peter Kühnlein (eds.). 2008. Constraints in discourse. Pragmatics and beyond new series 172. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benz, Anton & Peter Kühnlein. 2008. Constraints in discourse: An introduction. In Anton Benz & Peter Kühnlein (eds.). Constraints in discourse, 1-26. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benz, Anton. 2008. Assertions in AFA set theory. In Klaus Robering (ed.). New Approaches to Classes and Concepts, 143-176. London: College Publications.

Benz, Anton, Gerhard Jäger & Robert van Rooij (eds.). 2006. Game Theory and Pragmatics. Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.