Christopher Kennedy

Christopher Kennedy has 3 papers in our library, in 1996–2022, most of them on Implicature, Coreference resolution, Reasoning; often with Ming Xiang.

3 papers in our library · 1996–2022

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A "de-Fregean" semantics (and neo-Gricean pragmatics) for modified and unmodified numerals (2015 · 120 citations)
Kennedy asks why numerals with superlative modifiers ("at least six", "at most six") suggest that the speaker does not know the exact number, while comparative ones ("more than six", "fewer than six") do not, even though both only give a bound.
Anaphora for Everyone: Pronominal Anaphora Resolution without a Parser (1996 · 53 citations)
Kennedy and Boguraev address a practical obstacle to pronoun resolution. The Lappin and Leass (1994) algorithm is accurate but depends on detailed full syntactic parses, which parsers of the time could not reliably produce for arbitrary real-world text. The authors adapt that algorithm to work from shallow input: the…
Pragmatic reasoning and semantic convention: A case study on gradable adjectives (2022 · 4 citations)
The paper asks how listeners handle unmodified gradable adjectives ("long", "empty", "bent"), whose cutoff point is set by context and often uncertain.

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Papers of our library cite their works 62 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 22 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 24 October 2026