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Hector J. Levesque

Hector J. Levesque has 2 papers in our library, in 1985–1990, most of them on Speech act theory; often with Philip R. Cohen.

2 papers in our library · 1985–1990

OpenAlex · h-index 60 · 307 works · 18,329 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 757 times in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5690

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 Affiliations

🎓University of TorontoToronto · Canada1977–2026 · 158 paperscurrent🔬Canadian Institute for Advanced ResearchToronto · Canada1986–1993 · 9 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

1990s

19901 paper

1980s

19851 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Speech Acts and Rationality (1985 · 119 citations)
    Cohen and Levesque challenge the assumption, common in speech act theory and in AI dialogue systems, that illocutionary acts such as requests are primitive and must be explicitly identified before a system can respond.
  2. Performatives in a Rationally Based Speech Act Theory (1990 · 81 citations)
    The paper asks why a first-person present-tense utterance such as "I request you to open the door" counts as a request just by being said, while "I lie that p" defeats itself and "frighten" cannot be used this way at all.

All works

3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. The Winograd Schema Challenge ↗KR 2012 · no summary yetHector J. Levesque, Ernest Davis, Leora Morgenstern2012 · 1,526 citations
  2. Speech Acts and RationalityAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque1985 · 119 citations
  3. Performatives in a Rationally Based Speech Act TheoryAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque1990 · 81 citations

 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.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 757 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 206 citing papers with a page here →.

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