Publications

See also work in progress.

In Press

• Pejorative Tone. Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone. To appear in Bad Words, edited by David Sosa.
• Explicit Indirection. Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone. To appear in New Work on Speech Acts, edited by Daniel Fogal, Daniel Harris and Matthew Moss.
• Eco, Metaphor and Interpretation: A cure for the common code. Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone. To appear in The Philosophy of Umberto Eco, edited by Sara Beardsworth.

2017

• Discourse and logical form: pronouns, attention and coherence. Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone and Ernie Lepore. Linguistics and Philosophy. Online first, May 2017. Preprint version.
• When is likely unlikely: Investigating the variability of vagueness. Kimele Persaud, Brian McMahan, Malihe Alikhani, Kevin Pei, Pernille Hemmer and Matthew Stone. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference.

2016

• Syntactic realization with data-driven neural tree grammars. Brian McMahan and Matthew Stone. Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 224-235.
• Problems and Perspectives on the Limits of Pragmatics: Reply to Critics. Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone. Polish Journal of Philosophy 10:1, 2016. Preprint version.
• Semantics, coherence, and intentions: Reply to Carston, Collins and Hawthorne. Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone. Mind and Language 31:5, Preprint version.
• Précis of Imagination and Convention. Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone. Croatian Journal of Philosophy 16:2, 2016. Preprint version.
• Semantics and computational semantics. Matthew Stone. In Paul Dekker and Maria Aloni, eds., Cambridge Handbook of Semantics, pages 775-800.
• The breadth of semantics: reply to critics. Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone. Inquiry 59(1), 2016, special issue on Imagination and Convention. Preprint version.
• The poetic imagination. Ernest Lepore and Matthew Stone. In Noel Carroll and John Gibson, eds., The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, pages 323-333, 2016. Preprint version.

2015

• Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language. Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone. Oxford University Press, 2015. Publisher's page. and book site at Oxford Scholarship Online.
• Meaning and demonstration. Matthew Stone and Una Stojnic. Review of Philosophy and Psychology (special issue on pictorial and diagrammatic representation) 6(1):69-97, 2015. Preprint version.
• A Bayesian model of grounded color semantics. Brian McMahan and Matthew Stone. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3:103-115, 2015. PDF at Rutgers. Project page, resources, and online demo.
• David Lewis on Convention. Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone. In Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer, eds., A Companion to David Lewis, pages 315-327. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. Preprint version.

2014

• Pursuing and demonstrating understanding in dialogue. David DeVault and Matthew Stone. In Amanda Stent and Srinivas Bangalore, eds., Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems, pages 34-62. Cambridge University Press 2014. Preprint version.
• Generating and resolving vague color references. Timothy Meo, Brian McMahan and Matthew Stone. In SEMDIAL 2014: The 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue.

2013

• Technical Perspective: Visualization, Understanding, and Design. Doug DeCarlo and Matthew Stone. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 56 No. 1, Page 105. Preprint version.
• Discourse relations and situated utterances. Matthew Stone, Una Stojnic and Ernie Lepore. The Tenth International Conference for Computational Semantics (IWCS), pages 390-396.
  Bibtex reference. PDF at Rutgers.
• Training an integrated sentence planner on user dialogue. Brian McMahan and Matthew Stone. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, pages 31-40. Bibtex reference. PDF at Rutgers.
• Deixis (even without pointing). Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone and Ernest Lepore. Philosophical Perspectives 26(1):502-525, 2013. Preprint version.
• Economy in Embodied Utterances. Matthew Stone. In Laurence Goldstein, ed., Brevity, pages 143-159. Oxford University Press, 2013. Preprint version.

2012

• Figures of speech. Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone. The Philosopher's Magazine. Issue 56, Q1 2012. Preprint version.
• Towards a flexible semantics: Colour terms in collaborative reference tasks. Bert Baumgaertner, Raquel Fernandez and Matthew Stone. *SEM: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 80-84.
  Bibtex reference.

2010

• Coherence and rationality in grounding. Matthew Stone and Alex Lascarides. SEMDIAL 2010: 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pages 51-58. Preprint version.
• Statistical evaluation of intention in group decision-making dialogue. Michael Wunder and Matthew Stone. SEMDIAL 2010: 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pages 163-164. Preprint version.
• Visual Explanations. Doug DeCarlo and Matthew Stone. NPAR 2010: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering, pages 173-178. Preprint version.
• Against Metaphorical Meaning. Ernest Lepore and Matthew Stone. Topoi 29(2):165-180, 2010. Preprint version.

2009

• Learning to Interpret Utterances Using Dialogue History. David DeVault and Matthew Stone. Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, pages 184-192, 2009.
• Communication, Credibility and Negotiation Using a Cognitive Hierarchy Model. Michael Wunder, Michael Littman and Matthew Stone. 4th Multi-agent Sequential Decision-Making in Uncertain Domains at AAMAS 2009, pages 73-80.
• Abstraction of 2D Shapes in Terms of Parts. Xiaofeng Mi, Doug DeCarlo and Matthew Stone. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR), 2009, pages 15-24. Preprint version.
• A Formal Semantic Analysis of Gesture. Alex Lascarides and Matthew Stone. Journal of Semantics 26: 393-449, 2009. Preprint version.
• Discourse Coherence and Gesture Interpretation. Alex Lascarides and Matthew Stone. Gesture 9:2, pages 147-180, September 2009. Preprint version.

2008

• Modeling Facial Expression of Uncertainty in Conversational Animation. Matthew Stone and Insuk Oh. Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans, edited by Ipke Wachsmuth and Günter Knoblich, Springer, pages 57-76. Preprint version.
• Support Collaboration by Teaching Fundamentals. Matthew Stone. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics at ACL 2008, pages 129-136.
• Language, Embodiment and Social Intelligence. (position paper for invited talk) Matthew Stone. Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference, pages 5-6.

2007

• Sentence generation as a planning problem. Alexander Koller and Matthew Stone. To appear in ACL-07: 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference Proceedings, edited by Annie Zaenen and Antal van den Bosch.
• Managing ambiguities across utterances in dialogue. David DeVault and Matthew Stone. To appear in DECALOG: The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, edited by Ron Artstein and Laure Vieu.
• Logic and semantic analysis. Ernest Lepore and Matthew Stone. In Handbook of the Philosophy of Logic, edited by Dale Jacquette, Elsevier, pages 173-204.
• Understanding RUTH: Creating believable behaviors for a virtual human under uncertainty. Insuk Oh and Matthew Stone. In HCI International 2007: 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.

2006

• Societal grounding is essential to meaningful language use. David DeVault, Iris Oved and Matthew Stone. Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2006.
• Is semantics computational? Mark Steedman and Matthew Stone. Theoretical Linguistics 32(1):73-89, 2006. Preprint version.
• Understanding student input for tuturial dialogue in procedural domains. Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Charles B. Callaway, Matthew Stone and Johanna D. Moore. BRANDIAL 06: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, edited by David Schlangen and Raquel Fernandez, pages 10-17.
• Formal semantics of iconic gesture. Alex Lascarides and Matthew Stone. BRANDIAL 06: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, edited by David Schlangen and Raquel Fernandez, pages 64-71.
• Scorekeeping in an uncertain language game. David DeVault and Matthew Stone. BRANDIAL 06: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, edited by David Schlangen and Raquel Fernandez, pages 139-146.

2005

• AI—The next 25 years. Matthew Stone and Haym Hirsh. AI Magazine, 26(4):85-97, Winter 2005.
• Disjunction and modular goal-directed proof search. Matthew Stone. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, 6(3):539-577. Preprint version of paper body and electronic appendix. An earlier version was distributed on arxiv.org, 2002.
• An information-state approach to collaborative reference. David DeVault, Natalia Kariaeva, Anubha Kothari, Iris Oved, and Matthew Stone. ACL 2005 Proceedings Companion Volume. Interactive Poster and Demo Track, pages 1--4. Preprint version.

2004

• Intention, interpretation and the computational structure of language. Matthew Stone. Cognitive Science 28(5):781-809, 2004. Preprint version.
• Speaking with hands: Creating Animated Conversational Characters from Recordings of Human Performance, Matthew Stone, Doug DeCarlo, Insuk Oh, Christian Rodriguez, Adrian Stere, Alyssa Lees, and Chris Bregler. ACM Transactions on Graphics 23(3):506-513, (SIGGRAPH), 2004. Preprint version.
• Interpreting vague utterances in context, David DeVault and Matthew Stone. Proceedings of COLING, pages 1247-1253, 2004. Preprint version.
• Specifying and animating facial signals for discourse in embodied conversational agents. Doug DeCarlo, Matthew Stone, Corey Revilla and Jennifer J. Venditti. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 15:1, pages 27-38, 2004. Preprint version.
• Communicative intentions and conversational processes in human-human and human-computer dialogue. Matthew Stone. In Trueswell and Tanenhaus, eds., Approaches to Studying World-Situated Language Use, MIT Press, pages 39-70, 2004.

2003

• Anaphora and discourse structure. Bonnie Webber, Matthew Stone, Aravind Joshi and Alistair Knott. Computational Linguistics, 29:4, pages 545-588, 2003. Preprint version. An earlier version was distributed on arxiv.org, 2001.
• Microplanning with communicative intentions: the SPUD system. Matthew Stone, Christine Doran, Bonnie Webber, Tonia Bleam and Martha Palmer. Computational Intelligence 19:4, pages 311-381, 2003. Preprint version.
• Crafting the illusion of meaning: Template-based generation of embodied conversational behavior. Matthew Stone and Doug DeCarlo. In Computer Animation and Social Agents. Pages 11-16. Rutgers, May 2003.
• On-line accented pronoun interpretation in discourse context Jennifer J. Venditti, John Trueswell, Matthew Stone and Katherine Nautiyal. Talk presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. MIT, March 2003.
• Knowledge representation for language engineering. Matthew Stone. In Farghaly, ed., Handbook for Language Engineers, CSLI Publications, 2003, pages 299-366.
• Domain Inference in Incremental Interpretation. David DeVault and Matthew Stone. ICOS 4: Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics. INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France, September, 2003.
• Coordinating Understanding and Generation in an Abductive Approach to Interpretation. Matthew Stone and Richmond H. Thomason. DIABRUCK 2003: 7th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. The University of the Saarland, September, 2003.
• Ontology and Description in Computational Semantics: Models and Processes. Matthew Stone. Representation and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems: Proceedings of the IJCAI 2003 Workshop. Acapulco, August 2003.
• Specifying Generation of Referring Expressions by Example. Matthew Stone. AAAI Spring Symposium: Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue. Pages 133-140. Stanford, March 2003.
• Linguistic Representation and Gricean Inference. Matthew Stone. IWCS-5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Semantics. University of Tilburg, January, 2003, pages 5-21.

2002

• Making discourse visible: coding and animating conversational facial displays. Douglas DeCarlo, Corey Revilla, Matthew Stone and Jennifer J. Venditti. Computer Animation 2002, pages 11-16.
• Discourse constraints on the interpretation of nuclear-accented pronouns. Jennifer J. Venditti, Matthew Stone, Preetham Nanda and Paul Tepper. Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Speech Prosody.
• Context in Abductive Interpretation. Matthew Stone and Richmond H. Thomason. EDILOG 2002: 6th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. The University of Edinburgh, September, 2002.
• Lexicalized Grammar 101. Matthew Stone. ACL Workshop on Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing. Philadelphia, July, 2002.

2001

• Representing Communicative Intentions in Collaborative Conversational Agents. Matthew Stone. AAAI Fall Symposium on Intent Inference for Collaborative Tasks. Cape Cod, November, 2001.

2000

• Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and Inference in Instructions. Matthew Stone. Journal of Language and Computation 1(2), 2000, pages 231-246.
• On identifying sets. Matthew Stone. INLG 2000, 116-123.
• Coordination and context-dependence in the generation of embodied conversation. Justine Cassell, Matthew Stone and Hao Yan. INLG 2000, pages 171-178.
• Lexicalized Grammar and the Description of Motion Events. Matthew Stone, Tonia Bleam, Christine Doran and Martha Palmer. Fifth International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms. Paris, France, May 2000.

1999

• Representing Scope in Intuitionistic Deductions. Matthew Stone. Theoretical Computer Science 211(1-2), 1999, pages 129-188. Preprint version.
• Dynamic Discourse Referents for Tense and Modals. Matthew Stone and Daniel Hardt. IWCS 2, 1997, pages 287--299. In Bunt and Muskens, eds, Computing Meaning, Kluwer, 1999, pages 302--321.
• Discourse Relations: A Structural and Presuppositional Account Using Lexicalised TAG. Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone and Aravind Joshi. ACL 1999, pages 41-48.
• Living Hand to Mouth: Psychological Theories about Speech and Gesture in Interactive Dialogue Systems. Justine Cassell and Matthew Stone. AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication in Collaborative Systems. Susan Brennan, Alain Giboin and David Traum, eds. North Falmouth, Mass, November 1999.
• Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and Inference in Instructions (Extended Notes). Matthew Stone. Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics. (Invited Contribution.) ILLC, Amsterdam, August 1999. Christof Monz and Maarten de Rijke, eds.
• Describing Sets with Covers and Sets of Ordinary Assignments. Matthew Stone. ESSLLI 1999 Workshop on the Generation of Nominal Expressions. Rodger Kibble and Kees van Deemter, eds.

1998

• Modality in Dialogue: Planning, Pragmatics and Computation. Matthew Stone. PhD Thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1998.
• Abductive Planning with Sensing. Matthew Stone. AAAI 1998, pages 631--636.
• Textual Economy through Close Coupling of Syntax and Semantics. Matthew Stone and Bonnie Webber. Proceedings of INLG 1998, pages 178--187.

1997

• Sentence Planning as Description Using Tree-Adjoining Grammar. Matthew Stone and Christine Doran. ACL 1997, pages 198--205.
• Can you predict answers to Y/N questions? Yes, No and Stuff. D. Rossen-Knill, B. Hockey, B. Spejewski, M. Stone, and S. Isard. Eurospeech 1997.
• Partial-order Reasoning for a Nonmonotonic Logic of Action. Matthew Stone. AAAI 1997 Workshop on Robots, Softbots and Immobots.
• Applying Theories of Communicative Action in Generation Using Logic Programming. Matthew Stone. AAAI 1997 Fall Symposium On Communicative Action in Humans and Machines.

1996 and before

• Paying Heed to Collocations. Matthew Stone and Christine Doran. Proceedings of INLG 1996, pages 91--100.
• Animated Conversation: Rule-based generation of facial expression, gesture and spoken intonation for multiple conversational agents. Justine Cassell, Catherine Pelachaud, Norm Badler, Mark Steedman, Brett Achorn, Tripp Becket, Brett Douville, Scott Prevost, and Matthew Stone. SIGGRAPH 1994, pages 413--420.
• Modeling the interaction between speech and gesture. Justine Cassell, Matthew Stone, Brett Douville, Scott Prevost, Brett Achorn, Mark Steedman, Norm Badler and Catherine Pelachaud. Cognitive Science Society 1994. (Link to submitted version.)
• The Reference Argument of Epistemic Must. Matthew Stone. Proceedings of IWCS 1, 1994, pages 181--190.
• Or and Anaphora. Matthew Stone. SALT 2, 1992, pages 367--385.