Preferences versus adaptation during referring expression generation

  • Authors:
  • Martijn Goudbeek;Emiel Krahmer

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands;University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ACLShort '10 Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Current Referring Expression Generation algorithms rely on domain dependent preferences for both content selection and linguistic realization. We present two experiments showing that human speakers may opt for dispreferred properties and dispreferred modifier orderings when these were salient in a preceding interaction (without speakers being consciously aware of this). We discuss the impact of these findings for current generation algorithms.