Referring Expressions

This paper presents a computational model of how conversational participants collaborate in making re- ferring expressions. The model is based on the plan- ning paradigm. It employs plans for constructing …...

A simple formalism is proposed to repre- sent the contexts in which pronouns, def- inite/indefinite descriptions, and ordinal descriptions (e.g. 'the second book') can be used, and the way in …...

Previous algorithms for the generation of re- ferring expressions have been developed specif- ically for this purpose. Here we introduce an alternative approach based on a fully generic ag- gregation …...

Conventional approaches to the generation of referring expressions place the task within a pipelined ar- chitecture, typically somewhere be- tween text planning and linguis- tic realisation. In this paper, we …...

Machine summaries can be improved by using knowledge about the cognitive sta- tus of news article referents. In this paper, we present an approach to automatically acquiring distinctions in cognitive …...

We present a natural language genera- tion approach which models, exploits, and manipulates the non-linguistic context in situated communication, using techniques from AI planning. We show how to gen- erate …...

AbstractWe present the D-TUNA corpus, which is the first semantically annotated corpus of referring expressions in Dutch. Its primary function is to evaluate and improve the performance of REG algorithms. …...

AbstractThis paper describes a collection of multimodal corpora of referring expressions, the REX corpora. The corpora have two notable features, namely (1) they include time-aligned extra-linguistic information such as participant …...

We introduce a novel algorithm for generat- ing referring expressions, informed by human and computer vision and designed to refer to visible objects. Our method separates abso- lute properties like …...

AbstractPentoRef is a corpus of task-oriented dialogues collected in systematically manipulated settings. The corpus is multilingual, with English and German sections, and overall comprises more than 20000 utterances. The dialogues …...

AbstractOur interest is in people’s capacity to efficiently and effectively describe geographic objects in urban scenes. The broader ambition is to develop spatial models capable of equivalent functionality able to …...

AbstractThe referring expressions (REs) produced by a natural language generation (NLG) system can be misunderstood by the hearer, even when they are semantically correct. In an interactive setting, the NLG …...

There is a growing body of research focused on task-oriented instructor-manipulator dialogue, whereby one dialogue participant initiates a reference to an entity in a common environment while the other participant …...

AbstractIt is often posited that more predictable parts of a speaker’s meaning tend to be made less explicit, for instance using shorter, less informative words. Studying these dynamics in the …...

AbstractThe generation of referring expressions (REs) is a non-deterministic task. However, the algorithms for the generation of REs are standardly evaluated against corpora of written texts which include only one …...