--- title: "Nicholas Asher — papers and cards" description: "Nicholas Asher: 3 paper cards in the Research library (2016–2018), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-asher/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-asher/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nicholas Asher # Nicholas Asher 3 paper cards in the Research library · 2016–2018 Nicholas Asher wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2016–2018, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/); often with [Mathieu Morey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mathieu-morey/), [Philippe Muller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philippe-muller/), Farah Benamara. [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5019863253) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7689-8246) · [**h-index 50**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5019863253) · [10780 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5019863253) · [474 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5019863253) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Nicholas+Asher) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nicholas+Asher) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nicholas+Asher) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nicholas+Asher) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Nicholas+Asher) Topics: [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) 3 · [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) 1 · [Dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) 1 ## Papers 1. **[A Dependency Perspective on RST Discourse Parsing and Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/morey-2018-dependency-perspective-rst-discourse-parsing/)** *(2018)* RST parsing had been treated as constituency parsing and scored with a simplified PARSEVAL on RST-DT, which counts one attachment decision several times and says little about the semantic arguments of relations. 2. **[How much progress have we made on RST discourse parsing? A replication study of recent results on the RST-DT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/morey-2017-how-much-progress-have-we/)** *(2017)* Eight papers from 2013 to 2017 reported large gains in RST discourse parsing, with a claimed relative error reduction of 24 to 51%. 3. **[Discourse Structure and Dialogue Acts in Multiparty Dialogue: the STAC Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asher-2016-discourse-structure-dialogue-acts-multiparty/)** *(2016)* STAC is a corpus of chats from online games of The Settlers of Catan (36 games fully annotated in this release), in which players bargain for resources while competing, so they sometimes withhold information or mislead («anyone got some ore?» – «nope sorry» from a player holding two). ## Co-authors (5) - [Mathieu Morey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mathieu-morey/) ×3 - [Philippe Muller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philippe-muller/) ×2 - Farah Benamara - Julie Hunter - Stergos Afantenos ## More papers in the library (6) Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each. - [EIFFEL: a novel benchmark to measure bias of English heavy training on French idiomatic expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/noel-2026-eiffel-novel-benchmark-measure-bias/) — Charlotte Noel, Nicholas Asher, Olivier Gouvert, et al. · 2026 - [SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pennec-2026-sagaqa-multi-hop-reasoning-benchmark/) — Galann Pennec, Zhengyuan Liu, Nicholas Asher, et al. · 2026 - [Integer Linear Programming for Discourse Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/perret-2016-integer-linear-programming-discourse-parsing/) — Jérémy Perret, Stergos Afantenos, Nicholas Asher, et al. · 2016 - [Discourse parsing for multi-party chat dialogues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/afantenos-2015-discourse-parsing-multi-party-chat/) — Stergos Afantenos, Eric Kow, Nicholas Asher, et al. · 2015 - [Constrained Decoding for Text-Level Discourse Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muller-2012-constrained-decoding-text-level-discourse/) — Philippe Muller, Stergos Afantenos, Pascal Denis, et al. · 2012 - [Discourse Relations and Defeasible Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lascarides-1991-discourse-relations-defeasible-knowledge/) — Alex Lascarides, Nicholas Asher · 1991