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Elizabeth Hinkelman

Elizabeth Hinkelman has 2 papers in our library, in 1989, most of them on Speech act theory; often with James F. Allen.

2 papers in our library · 1989

OpenAlex · h-index 8 · 32 works · 478 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 11 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7476

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 Affiliations

🎓University of RochesterRochester · United States1987–1992 · 5 papers🔬German Research Centre for Artificial IntelligenceKaiserslautern · Germany1992–2000 · 4 papers🎓University of ChicagoChicago · United States1991–1992 · 2 papers

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 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 works

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Speech act theory · 2 works

 Works by year

1980s

19892 papers

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Two Constraints on Speech Act Ambiguity (1989 · 60 citations)
    The paper addresses how a dialogue system can work out what act a speaker performs with an utterance (asking, requesting, offering, and so on).
  2. Using Structural Constraints for Speech Act Interpretation (1989 · 3 citations)
    Allen and Hinkelman challenge the literal meaning hypothesis. That hypothesis holds that sentence structure fixes one context-free "literal" speech act, and that any indirect meaning is reached later by plan reasoning from that starting point. The authors argue this approach cannot capture phrasing subtleties. For…

 Co-authors here

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Venues

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 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 11 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 2 citing papers with a page here →.

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