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Robert E. Mercer

Robert E. Mercer has 3 papers in our library, in 1988–2020, most of them on Implicature, Reasoning, English; often with Lu Xiao.

3 papers in our library · 1988–2020

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 20 · 149 works · 1,453 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 12 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8509

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 Affiliations

🎓Western UniversityLondon · Canada1985–2026 · 121 papersEmployment since 1985 · Professor Emeritus, Computer Sciencecurrent🎓University of WaterlooWaterloo · Canada2019–2020 · 4 papers🔬Vector InstituteToronto · Canada2022–2023 · 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 3 worksComputer Science · 3 worksArtificial Intelligence · 3 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 3 worksLiterature and Literary Theory · 1 workPhilosophy · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Implicature · 2 worksEnglish · 1 workReasoning · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20201 paper

1990s

19911 paper

1980s

19881 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. A Lexicon-Based Approach for Detecting Hedges in Informal Text (2020 · 15 citations)
    The authors want sentence-level hedge detection in spontaneous talk rather than in scientific prose, using eight translated oral-history interviews.
  2. Presuppositions and Default Reasoning: A Study in Lexical Pragmatics (1991 · 7 citations)
    Some words carry meaning that survives negation. Both "My cousin is a bachelor" and, in its usual reading, "My cousin is not a bachelor" suggest that the cousin is an adult male. These presuppositions can still disappear: an added remark about a three-year-old cancels them, and a disjunction with "spinster" blocks…
  3. Solving Some Persistent Presupposition Problems (1988 · 7 citations)
    The paper tackles a set of counterexamples that Soames (1979, 1982) raised against Gazdar's 1979 account of how presuppositions project from complex sentences.

 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 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 5 citing papers with a page here →.

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