Abstract
In this paper, we explore a corpus of human-produced referring expressions to see to what extent we can learn the referential behaviour the corpus represents. Despite a wide variation in the way subjects refer across a set of ten stimuli, we demonstrate that component elements of the referring expression generation process appear to generalise across participants to a significant degree. This leads us to propose an alternative way of thinking of referring expression generation, where each attribute in a description is provided by a separate heuristic.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG 2009 |
Place of Publication | United States |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Pages | 58-65 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Event | 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG 2009 - Athens, Greece Duration: 30 Mar 2009 → 3 Apr 2009 |
Other
Other | 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG 2009 |
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Country/Territory | Greece |
City | Athens |
Period | 30/03/09 → 3/04/09 |