I am a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC
San Diego. I direct one of the department's Computational Linguistics
Labs, although in actuality the lab is highly interdisplinary, focused
primarily (but not only) on pragmatics and discourse
interpretation, studied from the perspectives of theoretical
linguistics, computational linguistics, and
psycholinguistics. Explore the links above and below to find
out more about me.
My current students are
Joshua
Wampler and Milad Mayel.
On the stack (and recently
off):
Clare Patterson, Petra B. Schumacher, Bruno Nicenboim,
Johannes Hagen, and Andrew Kehler. A Bayesian Approach to German Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns.
Frontiers in Communication, To Appear.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Ellipsis and the QUD: Sluicing with
Nominal Antecedents. Information Structure and Discourse
in Generative Grammar: Mechanisms and Processes, edited
by Andreas Konietzko and Susanne Winkler, De Gruyter
Mouton. To Appear.
Andrew Kehler. Asymmetric anaphoric dependencies determine available readings for VP-ellipsis.
Modular Design of Grammar, edited
by I. Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh, and Tracy Holloway King,
Oxford University Press. To Appear.
Andrew Kehler. Coherence Establishment as a Source of Explanation
in Linguistic Theory. Annual Review of Linguistics, 8:123-42, 2022.
Jet Hoek, Andrew Kehler, and Hannah Rohde. Pronominalization and
expectations for re-mention: Modeling coreference in
contexts with three referents. Frontiers in Communication,
2021.
Jonathan Cohen and Andrew Kehler.
Conversational Eliciture. Philosophers' Imprint, 21(12):1–26, 2021.
Invited Speaker, The Construction of Meaning:
The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures,
Universität Tübingen, March 4-5, 2021.
Shiva Upadhye, Leon Bergen, and Andrew Kehler.
Predicting Reference:
What do Language Models Learn about Discourse Models?,
in the Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2020).
Meilin Zhan, Roger Levy and Andrew Kehler. Pronoun
Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese follows principles of Bayesian
inference. PLoS One 15(8):1–42, 2020.
Clare Patterson, Johannes Hagen, Andrew Kehler, and Petra Schumacher. A
Bayesian approach to modelling German personal and
demonstrative pronouns. Poster presented at AMLaP
2020. University of Potsdam, Germany. 03–05 September.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Anything can be Elided if you Know
How: Sluicing, Voice Mismatch, and Tough Movement. Workshop
on Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis,
16th July 2020.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Anything can be Elided if you Know How: Sluicing, Voice Mismatch, and Tought Movement. The 33rd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, 21st March 2020, Amherst, MA.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Inferential Ellipsis Resolution:
Sluicing, Nominal Antecedents, and the Question under Discussion. 94th
Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, 5th January
2020, New Orleans, LA.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Reconsidering asymmetries in
voice-mismatched VP-ellipsis. Glossa: A Journal of General
Linguistics, 4(1), 60, 2019.
Invited Speaker, Information Structure and
Ambiguity: The Process of Integrating
Sentences into Discourse,
Universität Tübingen, October 7-8, 2019.
Jet Hoek, Andrew Kehler, and Hannah Rohde. Modeling coreference in
contexts with three referents. Talk presented at Rational Approaches
in Language Science (RAILS). Saarbrücken, Germany. 2019.
Jet Hoek, Andrew Kehler, and Hannah Rohde. Pronominalization and
expectations for re-mention: Evidence from benefactives. Poster
presented at DETEC 2019. Berlin, Germany. 2019.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Ellipsis and the QuD: Evidence
from Sluicing with Nominal Antecedents. California Meeting on
Psycholinguistics, 26th October 2019, Santa Cruz, CA.
Senior Area Chair (Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics), EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019.
Senior Area Chair (Discourse and Pragmatics), ACL 2019.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Sluicing inferred propositions",
poster to be presented
at the 8th
Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference
(XPRAG 2019), University of Edinburgh,
June 19-21, 2019.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Sluicing inferred propositions",
poster to be presented
at Sluicing and Ellipsis at 50, University of Chicago, April 12-13, 2019.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Ellipsis and the QuD: evidence from sluicing with nominal antecedents",
poster to be presented
at the
32nd
Annual CUNY Sentence Processing
Conference, University of Colorado, March 29-31, 2019.
Andrew Kehler. "Ellipsis and Discourse". Oxford
Handbook of Ellipsis, edited by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Tanja
Temmerman, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Colloquium Speaker, Department of Computer Science, Pomona
College, February 7, 2019.
Invited Speaker, Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora
3: Discourse and Information Structure,
Universität Münster, December 7-8, 2018.
Invited Speaker, Making Sense of Discourse workshop, Utrecht,
September
20-21, 2018.
Andrew Kehler and Hannah Rohde. "Prominence and Coherence in a
Bayesian Theory of Pronoun
Interpretation",
Journal of Pragmatics, to appear.
Invited Speaker, Prominence
in Language 2018, Cologne, Germany, July
11-13, 2018.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Asymmetries in voice-mismatched
VP-ellipsis",
talk presented
at the
54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago
Linguistic Society, April 26-28, 2018.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Reconsidering asymmetries in voice-mismatched
verb phrase ellipsis",
poster presented
at the
31st
Annual CUNY Sentence Processing
Conference, March 15-17, 2018.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Overcoming the Identity Crisis:
Novel Evidence for a Referential Theory of
Verb Phrase Ellipsis", to appear in the
Proceedings of the
53rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago
Linguistic Society, May 25-27, 2017.
Invited Speaker, Joint SEMdial and SIGdial Meeting on Discourse
and Dialog, Saarbrücken, Germany, August
15-17, 2017.
Invited Speaker, Workshop on Experimental and Corpus-based
Approaches to Ellipsis, 2017 LSA Institute,
University of Kentucky, July 29, 2017.
Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Verb Phrase Ellipsis is
Discourse Reference: Novel Evidence from
Dialogue", poster to be presented at
Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Potsdam,
September 7-10, 2017.
Andrew Kehler and Jonathan Cohen. "On Convention and Coherence". To appear in Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics,
edited by Gerhard Preyer, Oxford University Press.
Andrew Kehler. "Coherence Relations". To appear in the Oxford
Handbook of Event Structure, edited by Robert Truswell, Oxford University Press.
Quoted in Bloomberg View story
"Interruptology
Explains the Presidential Debates" by
Faye Flam, picked up by the Chicago Tribune
and various other news outlets.
Quoted in Bloomberg View story "Forget Facts. Check the Candidates' Innuendo" by
Faye Flam, picked up by the Chicago Tribune
and various other news outlets.
