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Debora Field

Debora Field has 2 papers in our library, in 2006–2009, most of them on Speech act theory, Reasoning, English; often with Allan Ramsay.

2 papers in our library · 2006–2009

OpenAlex · h-index 9 · 29 works · 213 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10694

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 Affiliations

🎓University of OxfordOxford · United Kingdom2013–2018 · 7 paperscurrent🎓University of SheffieldSheffield · United Kingdom2008–2012 · 8 papers🎓The Open UniversityMilton Keynes · United Kingdom2013 · 3 papers🎓University of LiverpoolLiverpool · United Kingdom2004–2007 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 workMolecular Biology · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Speech act theory · 1 workEnglish · 1 workReasoning · 1 work

 Works by year

2000s

20091 paper20061 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. How to change a person's mind: Understanding the difference between the effects and consequences of speech acts (2006 · 4 citations)
    The paper tackles a core difficulty in planning communication. A speaker cannot directly change what a hearer believes. Whatever an utterance achieves depends on the hearer's own beliefs and inferences, so its outcome cannot be read off a fixed list of action effects. Field and Ramsay present a fully implemented…
  2. Using English for commonsense knowledge (2009)
    The paper argues for writing commonsense rules as English sentences, for example "eating fruit which contains vitamin C is good for X if X has scurvy", and for translating them into logical forms with a compositional grammar.

 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

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