Moving targets: Human references to unstable landmarks

Adriana Baltaretu; Emiel Krahmer; Alfons Maes

doi:10.18653/v1/w15-4706

Moving targets: Human references to unstable landmarks

Adriana Baltaretu, Emiel Krahmer, Alfons Maes

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Abstract

In the present study, we investigate if speakers refer to moving entities in route directions (RDs) and how listeners evaluate these references. There is a general agreement that landmarks should be perceptually salient and stable objects. Animated movement attracts visual attention, making entities salient. We ask speakers to watch videos of crossroads and give RDs to listeners, who in turn have to choose a street on which to continue (Experiment 1) or choose the best instruction among three RDs (Experiment 2). Our results show that speakers mention moving entities, especially when their movement is informa-
tive for the navigation task (Experiment 1). Listeners understand and use moving landmarks (Experiment 1), yet appreciate stable landmarks more (Experiment
2).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG)
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	48-51
ISBN (Print)	9781941643785
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w15-4706
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG) - University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Sept 2015 → 11 Sept 2015 Conference number: 15

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Workshop	15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG)
Abbreviated title	ENLG
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Brighton
Period	10/09/15 → 11/09/15

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