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 |