Task demands and individual variation in referring expressions

Adriana-Alexandra Baltaretu; Thiago Castro Ferreira

Task demands and individual variation in referring expressions

Adriana-Alexandra Baltaretu, Thiago Castro Ferreira

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Aiming to improve the human-likeness of natural language generation systems, this study investigates different sources of variation that might influence the production of referring expressions (REs), namely the effect of task demands and inter- intra- individual variation. We collected REs using a discrimination game and varied the instructions, telling speakers that they would get points for being fast, creative, clear, or no incentive would be mentioned. Our results show that task demands affected REs production (number of words, number of attributes), and we observe a considerable amount of variation among the length of REs produced by single speakers, as well as among the REs of different speakers referring to the same targets.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference
Place of Publication	Edinburgh, UK
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	89-93
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - Sept 2016
Event	International Conference on Natural Language Generation 2016 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Sept 2016 → 8 Sept 2016 Conference number: 9 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/INLG2016/

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Natural Language Generation 2016
Abbreviated title	INLG 2016
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	5/09/16 → 8/09/16
Internet address	http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/INLG2016/

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Baltaretu, A-A & Castro Ferreira, T 2016, Task demands and individual variation in referring expressions. in Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Edinburgh, UK, pp. 89-93, International Conference on Natural Language Generation 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 5/09/16. <http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W16/W16-66.pdf#page=105>

Task demands and individual variation in referring expressions. / Baltaretu, Adriana-Alexandra; Castro Ferreira, Thiago.
Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference. Edinburgh, UK: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016. p. 89-93.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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