Publications

• Rasmus Blanck, Bill Noble, and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis. 2025. Reverse-engineering NLI: A study of the meta-inferential properties of Natural Language Inference. In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), Montreal, Quebec.
• Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, and Jenny Myrendal. 2025. Misunderstanding the Concrete, Disagreeing About the Abstract: A Closer Look at Word Meaning Negotiation Triggers. In Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), pages 81–91, Bielefeld, Germany.
• Bill Noble, Rasmus Blanck, and Gijs Wijnholds. 2025. In the Mood for Inference: Logic-Based Natural Language Inference with Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA), Bochum, Germany.
• Dominik Schlechtweg, Pierluigi Cassotti, Bill Noble, and David Alfter. 2024. More DWUGs: Extending and Evaluating Word Usage Graph Datasets in Multiple Languages. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 14379–14393, Miami, Florida.
• Staffan Larsson, Jenny Myrendal, and Bill Noble. 2024. Not Just Semantics: Word Meaning Negotiation in Social Media and Spoken Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2024 CLASP Conference on Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning (MILLing), pages 56–61, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Robin Cooper, Simon Dobnik, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Christine Howes, Staffan Larsson, Vladislav Maraev, Gregory Mills, and Gijs Wijnholds. 2024. I hea- umm think that's what they say: A Dataset of Inferences from Natural Language Dialogues. In Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), Trento, Italy.
• Bill Noble, Francesco Periti, and Nina Tahmasebi. 2024. Improving Word Usage Graphs with Edge Induction. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange), pages 92–107, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Bill Noble and Nikolai Ilinykh. 2023. Describe Me an Auklet: Generating Grounded Perceptual Category Descriptions. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 9330–9347, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Bill Noble. 2023. Semantic change in interaction: Studies on the dynamics of lexical meaning. Doctoral Thesis, University of Gothenburg, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science.
• Bill Noble, Vladislav Maraev, and Ellen Breitholtz. 2022. Probabilistic pragmatics: A dialogical perspective. In Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Rasmus Blanck, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Shalom Lappin, and Aleksandre Maskharashvili, editors, Probabilistic Approaches to Linguistic Theory, 227–259. Center for the Study of Language and Information.
• Bill Noble and Jean-Philippe Bernardy. 2022. Conditional Language Models for Community-Level Linguistic Variation. In Proceedings of the 5th workshop on NLP+CSS at EMNLP 2022, Abu Dabi.
• Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Nikolai Ilinykh, Vladislav Maraev, and Vidya Somashekarappa. 2022. In Search of Meaning and Its Representations for Computational Linguistics. In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2022 CLASP Conference on (Dis)embodiment, pages 30–44, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, and Robin Cooper. 2022. Classification Systems: Combining taxonomical and perceptual lexical meaning. In Proceedings of the 3rd Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning Workshop (NALOMA III), Galway, Ireland.
• Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, and Robin Cooper. 2022. Coordinating taxonomical and observational meaning: The case of genus-differentia definitions. In Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), Dublin, Ireland.
• Vladislav Maraev, Bill Noble, Chiara Mazzocconi, and Christine Howes. 2021. Dialogue act classification is a laughing matter. In Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), Potsdam, Germany.
• Bill Noble, Kate Viloria, Staffan Larsson, and Asad Sayeed. 2021. What do you mean by negotiation? Annotating social media discussions about word meaning. In Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), Potsdam, Germany.
• Bill Noble, Asad Sayeed, Raquel Fernández, and Staffan Larsson. 2021. Semantic shift in social networks. In Proceedings of the *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Online.
• Bill Noble and Vladislav Maraev. 2021. Large-scale text pre-training helps with dialogue act recognition, but not without fine-tuning. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Groningen, The Netherlands (online).
• Bill Noble, Ellen Breitholtz, and Robin Cooper. 2020. Personae under uncertainty: The case of topoi. In Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020), pages 8–16, Gothenburg, Sweden (online).
• Bill Noble and Raquel Fernández. 2016. Semantic Approximation And Its Effect On The Development Of Lexical Conventions. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang XI), New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Bill Noble and Raquel Fernández. 2015. Centre Stage: How Social Network Position Shapes Linguistic Coordination. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), pages 29–38, Denver, Colorado. (Best student paper)
• Bill Noble. 2015. All together now... This time with meaning: A hierarchical lexicon for semantic coordination. Master's Thesis, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation.

Unpublished work

Seminars, invited talks, workshop presentations, etc.

• Fahima Ayub Khan, Bill Noble, and Christine Howes. 2025. Switching Contexts: Pragmatic Effects of Code-switching in Spanish-English Dialogue. In Proceedings of the SweCog 2025 Conference, Lund University.
• Bill Noble, Vladislav Maraev, Ellen Breitholtz, and Christine Howes. 2025. A linear logic account of social meaning as enthymematic inference. In Proceedings of the SKY Symposium 2025, Tampere University, Finland.
• Fahima Ayub Khan and Bill Noble. 2022. Investigating code-switching and disfluencies in bilingual dialogue: A study of the meta-inferential properties of Natural Language Inference. In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), Montreal, Quebec.
• Bill Noble. 2021. Distributional semantics for lexical semantic varitaion and change. At the CLASP Seminar Series, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Bill Noble. 2020. Conditional language models for linguistic variation and change. At the Workshop on Computational Detection of Language Change, Online.
• Bill Noble and Vladislav Maraev. 2019. Neural dialogue act recognition with transformer pre-training. In Proceedings of the IWCS Workshop Vector Semantics for Discourse and Dialogue, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Bill Noble. 2018. Does semantic adaptation predict semantic change?: A study of the meta-inferential properties of Natural Language Inference. In Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Aix-en-Provence, France.