Between October 2007 and December 2010 I prepared my PhD under the supervision of Jacques Jayez. I work in the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF) attached to the Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7. I work on the relationship between discourse connectives and pragmatic inferences, especially on the sensitivity of some connectives to pragmatic content.

My Master Thesis, done under the supervision of Pascal Amsili, deals with the defeasability of natural inferences.

My research interests mainly lie in formal semantics and pragmatics :

• Conversational and conventional implicatures
• Presupposition theory
• Dynamic semantics
• Argumentativity
• Game Theory in pragmatics
• Discourse connectives

• [PhD Dissertation] G. Winterstein: La dimension probabiliste des marqueurs de discours. Nouvelles perspectives sur l'argumentation dans la langue. Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 [pdf]
  Dissertation committee:
  • Pascal Amsili (U. P7)
  • Nicholas Asher (CNRS-IRIT)
  • Francis Corblin (U. P4)
  • Jacques Jayez (ENS-Lyon)
  • Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS-LLF)
  • Henk Zeevat (U. Amsterdam)
• [Article in a Collection] G. Winterstein : The Meaning of the Additive 'Too': Presupposition and Discourse Similarity to be published by Springer (LNCS), selected articles from the proceedings of the 8th Tbilisi Symposium [pdf]
• [Article in a Collection] G. Winterstein and G. Schaden: Relevance and Utility in an Argumentative Framework. An Application to the Accommodation of Discourse Topics in Ludics, Dialogue and Interaction, Alain Lecomte and Samuel Tronçon (eds.), FOLLI/LNAI (LN6505), Springer Berlin [pdf]
• [Conference Proceedings] G. Winterstein : Linking argumentativity and information structure in adversatives in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutnug 14, Martin Prinzhorn, Viola Schmitt and Sarah Zobel (eds.) [pdf]

• [Article in a Collection] G. Winterstein : Argumentative Properties of Pragmatic Inferences in New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, JSAI 2008 Conference and Workshops, Asahikawa, Japan, June 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Hiromitsu Hattori, Takahiro Kawamura, Tsuyoshi Idé, Makoto Yokoo, Yohei Murakami (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LN5447), Springer, Berlin [pdf]

• [Conference Proceedings] G. Winterstein : Adversary Implicatures in Proceedings of the 13th ESSLLI Student Session, Balogh K. (ed.), pp. 213-222 [pdf]
• [Conference Proceedings] G. Winterstein : Argumentative Properties of Pragmatic Inferences in Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS2008), Yasuo Nakayama (chair), Asahikawa, Japan, pp.168-186 [pdf] (reprinted in 2009 in a collection)
• [Conference Proceedings] G. Winterstein : Les propriétés argumentatives des implicatures conversationnelles in Actes des RJC 2008, Université Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle [pdf] (also available here)

• [Master Thesis] G. Winterstein : La défaisabilité des inférences naturelles Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 [pdf]

• Modeling the context sensitivity of 'but', 12th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, Szklarska Poreba (Pologne), 11-15 march 2011: [Slides (pdf)]
• with Jacques Jayez, Revisiting 'and': the dynamics of additivity, Discourse structure and implicatures workshop, during the 33rd annual conference of the german linguistic society (DGfS), Göttingen, 23-25 February 2011: [Handout (pdf)]
• The probabilistic dimension of discourse markers, invited communication at the Adversative Workshop, Oslo, Center for Advanced Studies, 7-8 february 2011: [Slides (pdf)]

• with Fabiola Henri, Morpho-Semantics of Verbal Reduplication: the case of Mauritian, 17th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), Paris, 7-10 July 2010: [Handout (pdf)], [Poster (pdf)]
• The Meaning of the French Additive 'Aussi': Presupposition and Discourse Similarity , Journées Sémantique et Modélisation 10, Nancy,25-26 March 2010 : [Abstract (pdf)], [Handout (pdf)]

• with Gabriela Bîlbîie, Expressing Contrast in Romanian: the conjunction iar, Going Romance 23, Nice, 3-4 December 2009 : [Handout (pdf)]
• with Gerhard Schaden, Relevance and Utility in an Argumentative Framework. An Application to the Accommodation of Discourse Topics, Workshop Games, Dialogues and Interaction, Université Paris 8, 28-30 September 2009 : [Slides (pdf)]
• Argumentation and Information Structure in the meaning of the Adversative Mais, Sinn und Bedeutung 14, Wien, 28-30 September 2009 : [Handout (pdf)]
• The Meaning of Too: Presupposition, Argumentation and Optionality, 8th Tbilisi Symposium, Bakuriani, 21-25 September 2009 : [Handout (pdf)]
• Exhaustive Interpretation in Adversative Coordination, Journées Sémantique et Modélisation 09, Paris, 09-10 Avril 2009 : [Abstract (pdf)], [Handout (pdf)]

• The Argumentative Properties of some Implicatures, 13th ESSLLI Student Session, Hamburg, 4-15 August 2008 : [Slides (pdf)]
• Les propriétés argumentatives des implicatures conversationnelles, Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs ED268, Paris, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 30-31 May 2008 [Handout (pdf)]
• La Pragmatique Inférentielle (contemporaine), Seminar of the Linguistics Ph.D Students of Université Paris Diderot, 19 May 2008 [Handout (pdf)]
• Lexical Ressource Semantics, short presentation of the LRS semantics for HPSG, Seminar Lectures en HPSG, Université Paris Diderot, April 2008, [Handout (pdf)]
• Argumentative Properties of Pragmatic Inferences, a preliminary version of the ESSLLI presentation, presented during Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 2008 (Asahikawa, Japan, May 2008), Formal Semantics In Moscow 4 (Moscow, Russia, April 2008) and Journées Sémantique et Modélisation (Toulouse, France, April 2008) [Extended Handout (pdf)]

• Computational Semantics T.A., fourth year class, by Pascal Amsili, second semester, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
• Formal basics of N.L.P., LI063(6), third year class, second semester, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
• Language and Computers, LG112, first year class, first semester, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
• Introduction to Linguistics, first year class, second semester, Université Lille 3
• Introduction to Linguistics, first year class, first semester, Université Lille 3

• Computational Semantics T.A., fourth year class, by Pascal Amsili, second semester
• Formal basics of N.L.P., LI063(6), third year class, second semester
• Supervising of End of term projects, third year

• Formal basics of N.L.P., LI063(6), third year class, second semester
• Algorithmics T.A., LI043(6), third year class by Pascal Amsili, second semester
• Language and Computers, LG112, first year class, with André Bittar, first semester

• Introduction to Office Software, first Semester

• CAuLD: a workgroup about discourse representation to which I participate
• The Ph.D students of the linguistics department of Université Paris Diderot
• The NLP Master I followed
• Talisman, the NLP association of the students of Université Paris Diderot

• Le pendule, the one and only multifarious zine (dead link, shoud live again someday)
• Advantages, the company I used to work for in another life