My research focuses largely on two matters: how context intrudes into or guides the interpretive process and how perspective is grammatically represented. These are manifested by my interest in the de re/de se/de dicto contrasts, the nature of subjectivity in evaluative and epistemic predication, and the structure of indexical shift.
Current Projects
- the structure of narrative texts
- evidential restrictions and subjective language
- the syntax-semantics interface in sluicing
Selected Papers
Anand, Pranav, Maziar Toosarvandani
(2022)
Narrative and point of view
Linguistics meets Philosophy, Daniel Altshuler ed., Cambridge University Press
Anand, Pranav, Natasha Korotkova
(2022)
How to theorize about subjective language: a lesson from \'de re\'
Linguistics and Philosophy 45:619-681
Nguyen, Allison, Tom Roberts, Pranav Anand, Jean Fox Tree
(2022)
Look, Dude: How hyperpartisan and non-hyperpartisan speech differ in online commentary
Discourse and Society, 33(3):371-390
Anand, Pranav, Maziar Toosarvandani
(2021)
Embedded presents and the structure of narratives
Proceedings of SALT 30, 801-20
Anand, Pranav, Natasha Korotkova
(2021)
Find, must and conflicting evidence
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, 515-532
Anand, Pranav, Dan Hardt, Jim McCloskey
(2021)
The Santa Cruz sluicing data set
Language 97(1), e68-88
Zhou, Hongwei, Pranav Anand, Oskar Elek, Angus G. Forbes
(2020)
Bio-inspired Structure Identification in Language Embeddings
Proceedings of IEEE 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH)
Anand, Pranav, Jane Grimshaw, Valentine Hacquard
(2019)
Speech Act Predicates and their Subjects
Tokens of Meaning: A Festschrift for Lauri Kartunnen. UChicago Press
Anand, Pranav, Maziar Toosarvandani
(2019)
Now and then: Perspectives on positional variance in temporal demonstratives
Proceedings of SuB 23, 19-36
Wu, Jiaqi, Ryan Compton, Geetanjai Rakshit, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker
(2019)
CruzAffect at AffCon 2019 Shared Task: A feature-rich approach to characterize happiness
Proceedings of AffCon219
Wu, Jiaqi, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker
(2019)
Linguistic Reflexes of Well Being and Happiness in ECHO
Proceedings of WASSA 8
Anand, Pranav, Natasha Korotkova
(2018)
Acquaintance content and obviation
Proceedings of SuB 22
Anand, Pranav, Maziar Toosarvandani
(2018)
No explanation for the historical present: Temporal sequencing and discourse
Proceedings of SuB 22
Anand, Pranav, Maziar Toosarvandani
(2017)
Unifying the canonical, historical, and play-by-play present
Proceedings of SuB 21
Reed, Lena, Shereen Oraby, Jiaqi Wu, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker
(2017)
Learning Lexical-Functional Patterns for First-Person Affect
Proceedings of ACL 2017
Lukin, Stephanie, Pranav Anand, Steve Whittaker, Marilyn Walker
(2017)
Argument Strength is in the Eye of the Beholder: Audience Effects in Persuasion
Proceedings of EACL 2017
Rahimtoroghi, Elah, Jiaqi Wu, Ruimin Wang, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker
(2017)
Modelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First Person Narrative
Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2017
Misra, Amita, Shereen Oraby, Shubhangi Tandon, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker
(2017)
Summarizing Dialogic Arguments from Social Media
Proceedings of SEMDIAL 2017
Anand, Pranav, Dan Hardt
(2016)
Antecedent Selection for Sluicing: Structure and Content
Proceedings of EMNLP 2016
Abbott, Rob, Brian Ecker, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker
(2016)
Internet Argument Corpus 2.0: An SQL schema for Dialogic Social Media and the Corpora to go with it
Proceedings of LREC 2016
Anand, Pranav, Jim McCloskey
(2015)
Annotating the Implicit Content of Sluicing
Proceedings of LAW 9, NAACL 2015
Misra, Amita, Pranav Anand, Jean Fox Tree, Marilyn Walker
(2015)
Using Summarization to Discover Argument Facets in Online Ideological Dialog
Proceedings of NAACL 2015
Anand, Pranav, Valentine Hacquard
(2014)
Factivity, Belief and Discourse
The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim. MITWPL
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard
(2013)
Epistemics and attitudes
Semantics and Pragmatics 6(8): 1-59
Walker, Marilyn A., Pranav Anand, Jean E. Fox Tree, Rob Abbott, Joseph King
(2012)
A Corpus for Research on Deliberation and Debate
Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2012
Walker, Marilyn A. Pranav Anand, Rob Abbott, Ricky Grant
(2012)
Stance Classification using Dialogic Properties of Persuasion
Proceedings of ACL-HLT 2012
Walker, Marilyn A. Pranav Anand, Rob Abbott, Jean E. Fox Tree, Craig Martell, Joseph King
(2012)
That\'s your evidence?: Classifying stance in online political debate
Decision Support Sciencesi 53(4):719â729
Anand, Pranav and Craig Martell
(2012)
Annotating the Focus of Negation in terms of Questions Under Discussion
Proceedings of Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics (ExPromM 2012), ACL-HLT 2012
Reschke, Kevin and Pranav Anand
(2012)
POLITICAL-ADS: An annotated corpus of event-level evaluativity
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis,ACL-HLT 2012
Anand, Pranav, Henry Escuadro, Ralucca Gera, Stephen G. Hartke, and Derrick Stolee
(2012)
On the hardness of recognizing triangular line graphs
Discrete Mathematics
Anand, Pranav, Caroline Andrews, Donka Farkas, and Matthew Wagers
(2012)
The exclusive interpretation of plurals nouns in quantificational environments
Proceedings of SALT 21, CLC Publications, Ithaca, NY
Reschke, Kevin and Pranav Anand
(2011)
Extracting Contextual Evaluativity
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics
Rob Abbot, Marilyn Walker, Pranav Anand, Jean E. Fox Tree, Robeson Bowmani, and Joseph King.
(2011)
How can you say such things?!?:Recognizing Disagreement in Informal Political Argument.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM 2011), ACL-HLT 2011
Anand, Pranav, Marilyn Walker, Rob Abbot, Jean E. Fox Tree, Robeson Bowmani, and Michael Minor
(2011)
Cats Rule and Dogs Drool!: Classifying Stance in Online Debate
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, ACL-HLT 2011
Anand, Pranav, Joseph King, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Earl Wagner, Craig Martell, Doug Oard, and Philip Resnik
(2011)
Believe Me: We Can Do This!. Annotating Persuasive Acts in Blog Text.
AAAI-2011 Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument.
Young, Joel, Pranav Anand, Craig Martell, Pedro Ortiz, and H. Tucker Gilbert
(2011)
A Microtext Corpus for Persuasion Detection in Dialog
AAAI-2011 Workshop on Analyzing Microtext
Anand, Pranav, Henry Escuadro, Ralucca Gera and Craig Martell
(2011)
Triangular line graphs and word sense disambiguation
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Anand, Pranav, and Adrian Brasoveanu
(2010)
Modal Concord as Modal Modification
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14
Anand, Pranav, and Valentine Hacquard
(2010)
The role of the Imperfect in Romance Counterfactuals
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14
Gehrke, Grant, Craig Martell, Andrew Schein, and Pranav Anand
(2010)
Projecting Away the Class Imbalance Problem in Author Attribution
International Journal of Semantic Computing 3(3), 365-382
Anand, Pranav
(2009)
Kinds of Taste
ms, UCSC
Anand, Pranav, and Valentine Hacquard
(2009)
Epistemics with Attitude
Proceedings of SALT 18, CLC Publications, Ithaca, NY
Anand, Pranav
(2008)
Dream Report Pronouns, Local Binding, and Attitudes De Se
Proceedings of SALT 17, CLC Publications, Ithaca, NY
Anand, Pranav
(2008)
Re-expressing Judgment
Theoretical Linguistics 33(2), 199-208.
Anand, Pranav
(2007)
Long-distance Indexicals
Proceedings of NELS 36.
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard
(2007)
When the Present is all in the Past
Recent advances in the syntax and semantics of tense, mood and aspect, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
Anand, Pranav and Andrew Nevins
(2007)
The Locus of Ergative Case Assignment: Evidence from Scope
Ergativity: Emerging Issues, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Anand, Pranav and Feng-fan Hsieh
(2005)
Long-distance reflexives in perspective
Proceedings of WCCFL 24, Cascadilla, Somerville, MA.
Anand, Pranav and Danni Tang
(2004)
Redistributing \'dou\': Cleaving Exhaustivity from Distributivity
Proceedings of WCCFL 23, Cascadilla, Somerville, MA.
Anand, Pranav and Andrew Nevins
(2004)
Shifty Indexicals in Changing Contexts
Proceedings of SALT 14, CLC Publication.
Nevins, Andrew and Pranav Anand
(2003)
Some AGREEment Matters
Proceedings of WCCFL 22, Cascadilla, Somerville, MA.
David Anderson, John Burger, John Griffith, Marc Light, Scott Mardix, Alex Morgan, and Pranav Anand
(2001)
Qanda and the Catalyst Architecture
Proceedings of TREC 2.
Breck, Eric, Marc Light, Gideon S. Mann, Ellen Riloff, Brianne Brown, Pranav Anand, Mats Rooth, and Michael Thelen
(2001)
Looking Under the Hood: Tools for Diagnosing your Question Answering Engine
Proceedings of the Workshop on Open-Domain Question Answering.
Courses
Winter 2024 |
Ling 119: Narratives
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Fall 2023 |
Ling 231: Semantics A
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Summer 2023 |
HUMN 35: Language Technology: Themes Across Cultures and Histories
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Summer 2022 |
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto
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Spring 2022 |
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto
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Winter 2022 |
NLP 270: Linguistic Models of Syntax and Semantics for Engineers
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Fall 2021 |
Ling 239: Semantics Seminar: Intonational Meaning
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Summer 2021 |
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto
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Spring 2021 |
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto
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Winter 2021 |
NLP 270: Linguistic Models of Syntax and Semantics for Engineers
Ling 231: Semantics A
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Summer 2020 |
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto
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Spring 2020 |
Ling 232: Semantics B
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto
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Fall 2019 |
Ling 112: Syntax 1
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Summer 2019 |
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto
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Spring 2019 |
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto
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Winter 2019 |
Ling 112: Syntax 1
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Summer 2018 |
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto
Ling 50: Introduction to Linguistics
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Winter 2018 |
Ling 232: Semantics B
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Fall 2017 |
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto
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Summer 2017 |
Ling 50: Introduction to Linguistics
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Spring 2017 |
Ling 118: Semantics 3
Ling 80D: Language and Mind
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Winter 2017 |
Ling 112: Syntax 1
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Fall 2016 |
Ling 231: Semantics A
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Spring 2016 |
Ling 108: Poetry and Language
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Winter 2016 |
Ling 53: Semantics 1
Ling 248: Topics in Computational Methods
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Fall 2015 |
Ling 231: Semantics A
Ling 53: Semantics 1
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Winter 2015 |
Ling 116: Semantics 2
Ling 53: Semantics 1
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Fall 2014 |
Ling 239: Semantics Seminar: Argument Structure
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Summer 2014 |
Ling 53: Semantics 1
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Winter 2014 |
Ling 231: Semantics A
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Fall 2013 |
Ling 144: Computation Methods for Linguists
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Summer 2013 |
Ling 53: Semantics 1
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Spring 2013 | |
Winter 2013 |
Ling 232: Semantics B
Ling 117: Pragmatics
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Spring 2012 |
Ling 117: Pragmatics
Ling 233: Semantics C
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Winter 2012 |
Ling 53: Semantics 1
Ling 290: Research Seminar
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Fall 2010 |
Ling 53: Semantics 1
Ling 231: Semantics A
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Spring 2010 |
Ling 155: Language and Cognition
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Winter 2010 |
Ling 116: Semantics 2
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Fall 2009 |
Ling 231: Semantics A
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Winter 2009 | |
Fall 2008 |
Ling 53: Semantics 1
Ling 125: Foundations of Linguistic Theory
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Winter 2008 |
Ling 116: Semantics 2
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Fall 2007 |
Ling 231: Semantics A
Ling 53: Semantics 1
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Spring 2007 |
Ling 116: Semantics 2
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Winter 2007 |
Ling 232: Semantics B
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Fall 2006 |
Ling 239: Semantics Seminar: The Semantics of De Se Expressions
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