Abstract
Introduction
A key task of almost any natural language generation (NLG) system is to refer to entities. Linguists and philosophers have a long tradition of theorizing about reference. In the words of the philosopher John Searle,
Any expression which serves to identify any thing, process, event, action, or any other kind of individual or particular I shall call a referring expression. Referring expressions point to particular things; they answer the questions Who?, What?, Which?
(Searle, 1969)
A key task of almost any natural language generation (NLG) system is to refer to entities. Linguists and philosophers have a long tradition of theorizing about reference. In the words of the philosopher John Searle,
Any expression which serves to identify any thing, process, event, action, or any other kind of individual or particular I shall call a referring expression. Referring expressions point to particular things; they answer the questions Who?, What?, Which?
(Searle, 1969)
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems |
| Editors | A Stent, S Bangalore |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 95-125 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780511844492 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781107010024 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2014 |
Keywords
- generating referring expressions
- incremental algorithm
- constraints