Individual Variation in the Choice of Referential Form

Thiago Castro Ferreira; Emiel Krahmer; Sander Wubben

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 language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2016
Place of Publication	San Diego, California
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	423-427
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - Jun 2016
Event	North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - San Diego, United States Duration: 12 Jun 2016 → 17 Jun 2016 Conference number: 15 http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/index.html

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Conference	North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Abbreviated title	NAACL HLT 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	12/06/16 → 17/06/16
Internet address	http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/index.html

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Castro Ferreira, T, Krahmer, E & Wubben, S 2016, Individual Variation in the Choice of Referential Form. in Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2016. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), San Diego, California, pp. 423-427, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, San Diego, United States, 12/06/16. <http://anthology.aclweb.org/N/N16/N16-1048.pdf>

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