Pragmatic Inference Lab

2026

September

• Asya presented a poster with the new results of the implicit causality project, and Gemma and Laura shared their work on perspective taking at AMLaP 2026 in Saarbrücken.

August

• Ivan, Güliz Günes, and Asya presented “Effect of surprisal on the form and prosody of referring expressions” at the CORE Project Workshop, ESSLLI 2026.

June

• Asya gave a keynote presentation at the retreat of the TAM cluster, titled “Looking ahead, looking back: Prediction and inference in language understanding”.

• Asya and Jasmin presented their poster “Conflict-Sensitive Communication: How German and American Speakers Navigate Controversial Topics” at the Workshop Modeling Common Ground Across Divides. The poster was co-authored with Martin Butz and Dirk Wildgruber (all University of Tübingen).

• Rosario Tomasello (FU Berlin) visited the lab and gave a talk at the Cognitive Science Colloquium. Gemma and Laura discussed their ideas about irony understanding and what kind of neural networks it involves.

May

• Paula Rubio-Fernández (MPI Nijmegen & CNRS) visited the lab. We discussed our projects on irony and a new project on prosodic annotation of the Monsters data.

April

• Natalia Krasikova joined the lab, she will be working on the Presuppositions project. Welcome to our team, Natalia!

March

• Asya organized a symposium “Communication strategies in the age of polarization” at TeaP 2026