Overspecification of color, pattern, and size: salience, absoluteness, and consistency

S Tarenskeen, M Broersma, B Geurts - Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The rates of overspecification of color, pattern, and size are compared, to investigate how
salience and absoluteness contribute to the production of overspecification. Color and …

Generating unambiguous and diverse referring expressions

N Panagiaris, E Hart, D Gkatzia - Computer Speech & Language, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Neural Referring Expression Generation (REG) models have shown promising
results in generating expressions which uniquely describe visual objects. However, current …

Stars2: a corpus of object descriptions in a visual domain

I Paraboni, MR Galindo, D Iacovelli - Language Resources and Evaluation, 2017 - Springer
This paper presents the Stars2 corpus of definite descriptions for referring expression
generation (REG). The corpus was produced in collaborative communication involving …

Generating spatial referring expressions in interactive 3D worlds

D dos Santos Silva, I Paraboni - Spatial Cognition & Computation, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This paper discusses the computational problem of generating referring expressions (REG)
in 3D virtual worlds. We propose a REG algorithm that attempts to make adequate choices of …

Personality-dependent referring expression generation

I Paraboni, DS Monteiro, AGJ Lan - … , Czech Republic, August 27-31, 2017 …, 2017 - Springer
This paper addresses the issue of how Big Five personality traits may influence the content
selection task in Referring Expression generation (REG.) To this end, we build a corpus of …

Generating natural language descriptions using speaker-dependent information

TC Ferreira, I Paraboni - Natural Language Engineering, 2017 - cambridge.org
This paper discusses the issue of human variation in natural language referring expression
generation. We introduce a model of content selection that takes speaker-dependent …

[PDF][PDF] Individual variation in the choice of referential form

TC Ferreira, E Krahmer, S Wubben - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
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 …

Personality-dependent content selection in natural language generation systems

RM S. Ramos, DS Monteiro, I Paraboni - Journal of the Brazilian Computer …, 2020 - Springer
This paper focuses on the computer side of human-computer interaction through natural
language, which is the domain of natural language generation (NLG) studies. From a given …

OMEGA: A probabilistic approach to referring expression generation in a virtual environment

M Langner - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
In recent years, referring expression genera-tion algorithms were inspired by game theory
and probability theory. In this paper, an al-gorithm is designed for the generation of re-ferring …

[PDF][PDF] Generating overspecified referring expressions: the role of discrimination

I Paraboni, M Galindo, D Iacovelli - … of the 53rd Annual Meeting of …, 2015 - aclanthology.org
We present an experiment to compare a standard, minimally distinguishing algorithm for the
generation of relational referring expressions with two alternatives that produce …