Nicholas Asher publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Nicholas Asher between 1984 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Nicholas Asher published across 42 years, from 1984 to 2025, averaging 9 papers a year. Output peaked at 26 publications in 2011. 26 of the 376 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15 20 25

1984 2025

376 publications in total across all disciplines

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Nicholas Asher: publications per year, 1984 to 2025
Year	Publications
1984	1
1985	7
1986	6
1987	5
1988	4
1989	6
1990	1
1991	5
1992	3
1993	20
1994	7
1995	9
1996	4
1997	4
1998	3
1999	1
2000	3
2001	9
2002	4
2003	5
2004	5
2005	8
2006	11
2007	13
2008	11
2009	12
2010	10
2011	26
2012	25
2013	21
2014	11
2015	21
2016	14
2017	6
2018	12
2019	7
2020	4
2021	8
2022	7
2023	11
2024	15
2025	11
Total	376

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Nicholas Asher publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicholas Asher sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

38–47 publications 804+

This scientist: 272 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

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Number of Engineering and Technology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,796 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
38–47	20
48–57	35
58–67	96
68–77	135
78–87	190
88–97	259
98–107	283
108–117	369
118–127	341
128–137	386
138–147	372
148–157	457
158–167	415
168–177	407
178–187	421
188–197	378
198–207	403
208–217	317
218–227	346
228–237	321
238–247	260
248–257	280
258–267	240
268–277	214	272
278–287	242
288–297	203
298–307	166
308–317	154
318–327	175
328–337	159
338–347	99
348–357	131
358–367	106
368–377	118
378–387	97
388–397	108
398–407	82
408–417	71
418–427	64
428–437	55
438–447	54
448–457	60
458–467	47
468–477	40
478–487	30
488–497	29
498–507	38
508–517	40
518–527	32
528–537	23
538–547	28
548–557	23
558–567	19
568–577	16
578–587	17
588–597	18
598–607	22
608–617	15
618–627	9
628–637	11
638–647	21
648–657	12
658–667	9
668–677	11
678–687	9
688–697	6
698–707	14
708–717	7
718–727	8
728–737	10
738–747	9
748–757	5
758–767	5
768–777	11
778–787	7
788–797	2
798–803	4
804+	100

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Nicholas Asher D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicholas Asher sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

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Number of Engineering and Technology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,796 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	59
31	114
32	129
33	189
34	200
35	262
36	311
37	312
38	350
39	385
40	348
41	362
42	426
43	380
44	310
45	341
46	301
47	306	47
48	271
49	246
50	210
51	253
52	213
53	221
54	195
55	186
56	170
57	167
58	166
59	144
60	152
61	141
62	138
63	131
64	118
65	114
66	119
67	95
68	87
69	77
70	89
71	69
72	54
73	46
74	55
75	54
76	49
77	53
78	46
79	28
80	39
81	36
82	24
83	26
84	36
85	18
86	25
87	19
88	26
89	27
90	23
91	15
92	12
93	9
94	15
95	10
96	13
97	13
98	9
99	7
100	7
101	8
102	7
103	7
104	9
105	6
106	9
107+	99

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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
Citations
Subordinating and coordinating discourse relations

Nicholas Asher;Laure Vieu

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

Nicholas Asher;Laure Vieu

324
Citations
Common sense entailment: a modal theory of nonmonotonic reasoning

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

269
Citations
DISCOURSE RELATIONS AND DEFEASIBLE KNOWLEDGE

Alex Lascaridest;Nicholas Asher

256
Citations
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
Citations
Generics and Defaults

Francis Jeffry Pelletier;Nicholas Asher

218
Citations
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
Citations
An empirical resource for discovering cognitive principles of discourse organisation: the ANNODIS corpus

Stergos Afantenos;Nicholas Asher;Farah Benamara;Myriam Bras

127
Citations
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
Citations
A Type Composition Logic for Generative Lexicon

Nicholas Asher;Nicholas Asher;James Pustejovsky

81
Citations
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
Citations
Discourse parallelism, ellipsis, and ambiguity

Nicholas Asher;Daniel Hardt;Joan Busquets

74
Citations
INFERRING DISCOURSE RELATIONS IN CONTEXT

Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher;Jon Oberlander

73
Citations
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics

Julie Hunter;Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

66
Citations
Constrained Decoding for Text-Level Discourse Parsing

Philippe Muller;Stergos Afantenos;Pascal Denis;Nicholas Asher

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

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

60
Citations
A Dependency Perspective on RST Discourse Parsing and Evaluation

Mathieu Morey;Philippe Muller;Nicholas Asher

46
Citations
From Contrastive to Abductive Explanations and Back Again.

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

42
Citations
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
Citations
Reference Manual for the Analysis and Annotation of Rhetorical Structure

Brian Reese;Julie Hunter;Nicholas Asher;Pascal Denis

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

Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher

27
Citations
Towards a formal theory of intentions

Munindar P. Singh;Nicholas M. Asher

26
Citations
Language Games

Nicholas Asher;Soumya Paul

1
Citations
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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