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Philip R. Cohen

Philip R. Cohen has 4 papers in our library, in 1978–1990, most of them on Speech act theory, Dialogue systems; often with Hector J. Levesque, C. Raymond Perrault, James F. Allen.

4 papers in our library · 1978–1990

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 59 · 423 works · 16,531 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 4 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 103 times in our library · 4 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5206

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 Affiliations

🏥University of California Davis Medical CenterSacramento · United States2022–2026 · 23 paperscurrent🎓Touro University CaliforniaVallejo · United States2019–2026 · 20 paperscurrent🎓University of FloridaGainesville · United States2024–2026 · 10 paperscurrent🎓University of California, DavisDavis · United States2023–2026 · 7 paperscurrent🎓University of California San DiegoSan Diego · United States2013–2022 · 66 papers🎓The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonHouston · United States1991–2020 · 21 papers🏥The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterHouston · United States1993–2020 · 21 papers🔬SRI InternationalMenlo Park · United States1983–2003 · 21 papersEmployment🎓Oregon Health & Science UniversityPortland · United States2001–2006 · 18 papers🎓University of HoustonHouston · United States2003–2013 · 16 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 24 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 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).Arts and Humanities · 4 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 4 worksArtificial Intelligence · 3 worksComputer Science · 3 works

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.Speech act theory · 4 worksDialogue systems · 1 work

 Works by year

1990s

19901 paper

1980s

19851 paper19801 paper

1970s

19781 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.
  3. Speech Acts as a Basis for Understanding Dialogue Coherence (1978 · 63 citations)
    The paper asks what makes a dialogue hang together. The authors argue that utterances, like physical actions, seem coherent when an observer can link them to a shared overall goal. They propose treating speech acts as planning operators. Each operator has preconditions and effects, and those effects fall mainly on…
  4. Signalling the Interpretation of Indirect Speech Acts (1980 · 1 citation)
    This short ACL 1980 panel paper asks how plan-based theories of speech acts can be checked against real dialogue.

All works

8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Elements of a Plan-Based Theory of Speech Acts ↗Cognitive Science 3(3):177–212 · no summary yetPhilip R. Cohen, C. Raymond Perrault1979 · 452 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
  4. Speech Acts as a Basis for Understanding Dialogue CoherenceComputational LinguisticsC. Raymond Perrault, James F. Allen, Philip R. Cohen1978 · 63 citations
  5. Multilingual Semantic Parsing And Code-Switching ↗Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2017) · no summary yetLong Duong et al.2017 · 60 citations
  6. Reranking for Natural Language Generation from Logical Forms: A Study based on Large Language Models ↗Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetLevon Haroutunian et al.2023 · 8 citations
  7. The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Human and Machine Translations for Multilingual Semantic Parsing with Active Learning ↗Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetZhuang Li et al.2023 · 6 citations
  8. Signalling the Interpretation of Indirect Speech ActsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Philip R. Cohen1980 · 1 citation

 Co-authors here

3 co-authors 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 103 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 14 citing papers with a page here →.

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