My research interests revolve around the semantics and pragmatics of language in interaction. I enjoy using a variety of approaches and techniques, ranging from logic to corpus-studies and experimental methods, to tackle different aspects related to dialogue interaction and language use more generally. Some of the issues I am particularly interested in include: referring expressions and the use of vague language, and learning and adaptation/coordination in dialogue.

current and recent projects

• Computing Implicatures in Incremental Dialogue Processing (2011-2015)
  Principle investigator. Project funded by the NWO (MEERVOUD grant).


• Common Ground and Granularity of Referring Expressions (2010-2012)
  In collaboration with Dale Barr at the University of Glasgow and Kees van Deemter at the University of Aberdeen. Project supported by the European Science Foundation EURO-XPRAG scheme.


• Change and Coordination via Dialogue Interaction (2008-2011)
  Principle investigator. Project funded by the NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (VENI grant).