2026 Nicholas Asher: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	47	4730	4554	95	93	272	14058

Overview

Nicholas Asher is affiliated with the Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research in France. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a substantial body of work in artificial intelligence.

Their contributions span various subfields including:

Artificial Intelligence
Language and Linguistics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Safety Research
Cognitive Neuroscience

Asher's research topics cover a wide range of areas, notably:

Topic Modeling
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Machine Learning and Algorithms
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications

Their recent publications include:

"Tractable Explanations for d-DNNF Classifiers", 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"On Relating 'Why?' and 'Why Not?' Explanations", 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"How Optimal Transport Can Tackle Gender Biases in Multi-Class Neural Network Classifiers for Job Recommendations", 2023, Algorithms
"Efficient Explanations for Knowledge Compilation Languages", 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Counterfactual Models for Fair and Adequate Explanations", 2022, Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Asher include:

Akshay Chaturvedi
Laurent Risser
João Marques-Silva
Fanny Jourdan
Jean-Michel Loubes

Asher's publications appear regularly in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Algorithms
Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Best Publications

Logics of conversation

Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

2985
Citations
Temporal interpretation, discourse relations and commonsense entailment

Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher

1090
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Subordinating and coordinating discourse relations

Nicholas Asher;Laure Vieu

431
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Toward a geometry of common sense: a semantics and a complete axiomatization of mereotopology

Nicholas Asher;Laure Vieu

324
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Common sense entailment: a modal theory of nonmonotonic reasoning

Nicholas M. Asher;Nicholas M. Asher;Michael Morreau;Michael Morreau

269
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DISCOURSE RELATIONS AND DEFEASIBLE KNOWLEDGE

Alex Lascaridest;Nicholas Asher

256
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Indirect Speech Acts

Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

242
Citations
Lexical Disambiguation in a Discourse Context

Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

225
Citations
Belief in discourse representation theory

Nicholas Asher

222
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Generics and Defaults

Francis Jeffry Pelletier;Nicholas Asher

218
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Segmented Discourse Representation Theory: Dynamic Semantics With Discourse Structure

Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher

204
Citations
What Some Generic Sentences Mean

Nicholas Asher;Michael Morreau

198
Citations
Strategic conversation

Unknown

194
Citations
Questions in Dialogue

Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

191
Citations
A default, truth conditional semantics for the progressive

Nicholas Asher

167
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An empirical resource for discovering cognitive principles of discourse organisation: the ANNODIS corpus

Stergos Afantenos;Nicholas Asher;Farah Benamara;Myriam Bras

127
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Order independent and persistent typed default unification

Alex Lascarides;Ted Briscoe;Ted Briscoe;Nicholas Asher;Ann Copestake;Ann Copestake

116
Citations
Truth Conditional Discourse Semantics for Parentheticals

Nicholas Asher

114
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A Type Composition Logic for Generative Lexicon

Nicholas Asher;Nicholas Asher;James Pustejovsky

81
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Distilling Opinion in Discourse: A Preliminary Study

Nicholas Asher;Farah Benamara;Yvette Yannick Mathieu

80
Citations
Commonsense entailment: a modal theory of nonmonotonic reasoning

Nicholas Asher;Michael Morreau

76
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Discourse parallelism, ellipsis, and ambiguity

Nicholas Asher;Daniel Hardt;Joan Busquets

74
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INFERRING DISCOURSE RELATIONS IN CONTEXT

Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher;Jon Oberlander

73
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Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics

Julie Hunter;Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

66
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Constrained Decoding for Text-Level Discourse Parsing

Philippe Muller;Stergos Afantenos;Pascal Denis;Nicholas Asher

64
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ANNODIS : une approche outillée de l'annotation de structures discursives

Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley;Nicholas Asher;Patrice Enjalbert;Farah Benamara

60
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A Dependency Perspective on RST Discourse Parsing and Evaluation

Mathieu Morey;Philippe Muller;Nicholas Asher

46
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From Contrastive to Abductive Explanations and Back Again.

Alexey Ignatiev;Nina Narodytska;Nicholas Asher;João Marques-Silva

42
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Integer Linear Programming for Discourse Parsing

Jérémy Perret;Stergos D. Afantenos;Nicholas Asher;Mathieu Morey

41
Citations
A logic of intentions and beliefs

Munindar P. Singh;Nicholas M. Asher

33
Citations
A COMPUTATIONAL ACCOUNT OF SYNTACTIC, SEMANTIC AND DISCOURSE PRINCIPLES FOR ANAPHORA RESOLUTION

Nicholas Asher;Hajime Wada

31
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Reference Manual for the Analysis and Annotation of Rhetorical Structure

Brian Reese;Julie Hunter;Nicholas Asher;Pascal Denis

28
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Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher

27
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Towards a formal theory of intentions

Munindar P. Singh;Nicholas M. Asher

26
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Language Games

Nicholas Asher;Soumya Paul

1
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Computational Intelligence for Knowledge-Based Systems Design

Nicholas Asher;Elise Bonzon;Alex Lascarides

0
Citations
Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher;Jon Oberlander

0
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