Individual Variation in the Choice of Referential Form

Thiago Castro Ferreira, Emiel Krahmer, Sander Wubben

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Abstract

This study aims to measure the variation between writers in their choices of referential form by collecting and analysing a new and publicly available corpus of referring expressions. The corpus is composed of referring expressions produced by different participants in identical situations. Results, measured in terms of normalized entropy, reveal substantial individual variation. We discuss the problems and prospects of this finding for automatic text generation applications.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of NAACL-HLT 2016
Place of PublicationSan Diego, California
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages423-427
Number of pages5
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2016
EventNorth American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - San Diego, United States
Duration: 12 Jun 201617 Jun 2016
Conference number: 15
http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/index.html

Conference

ConferenceNorth American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Abbreviated titleNAACL HLT 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period12/06/1617/06/16
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