Investigating the content and form of referring expressions in Mandarin: Introducing the mtuna corpus

Kees Van Deemter; Le Sun; Rint Sybesma; Xiao Li; Bo Chen; Muyun Yang

Investigating the content and form of referring expressions in Mandarin: Introducing the mtuna corpus

Kees Van Deemter, Le Sun, Rint Sybesma, Xiao Li, Bo Chen, Muyun Yang

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Abstract

East Asian languages are thought to handle reference differently from English, particularly in terms of the marking of definiteness and number. We present the first Data-Text corpus for Referring Expressions in Mandarin, and we use this corpus to test some initial hypotheses inspired by the theoretical linguistics literature. Our findings suggest that function words deserve more attention in Referring Expression Generation than they have so far received, and they have a bearing on the debate about whether different languages make different trade-offs between clarity and brevity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	INLG 2017 - 10th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Proceedings of the Conference
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	213-217
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781945626524
Publication status	Published - Sep 2017
Event	10th International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG 2017 - Santiago de Compostela, Spain Duration: 4 Sep 2017 → 7 Sep 2017

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Conference	10th International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG 2017
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Santiago de Compostela
Period	4/09/17 → 7/09/17

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Investigating the content and form of referring expressions in Mandarin : Introducing the mtuna corpus. / Van Deemter, Kees; Sun, Le; Sybesma, Rint et al.

INLG 2017 - 10th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017. p. 213-217.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

Van Deemter, K, Sun, L, Sybesma, R, Li, X, Chen, B & Yang, M 2017, Investigating the content and form of referring expressions in Mandarin: Introducing the mtuna corpus. in INLG 2017 - 10th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 213-217, 10th International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG 2017, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 4/09/17.

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