TY - GEN
T1 - Why discourse affects speakers' choice of referring expressions
AU - Orita, Naho
AU - Vornov, Eliana
AU - Feldman, Naomi H.
AU - Daumé, Hal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We propose a language production model that uses dynamic discourse information to account for speakers' choices of referring expressions. Our model extends previous rational speech act models (Frank and Goodman, 2012) to more naturally distributed linguistic data, instead of assuming a controlled experimental setting. Simulations show a close match between speakers' utterances and model predictions, indicating that speakers' behavior can be modeled in a principled way by considering the probabilities of referents in the discourse and the information conveyed by each word.
AB - We propose a language production model that uses dynamic discourse information to account for speakers' choices of referring expressions. Our model extends previous rational speech act models (Frank and Goodman, 2012) to more naturally distributed linguistic data, instead of assuming a controlled experimental setting. Simulations show a close match between speakers' utterances and model predictions, indicating that speakers' behavior can be modeled in a principled way by considering the probabilities of referents in the discourse and the information conveyed by each word.
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U2 - 10.3115/v1/p15-1158
DO - 10.3115/v1/p15-1158
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84943781485
T3 - ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 1639
EP - 1649
BT - ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2015
Y2 - 26 July 2015 through 31 July 2015
ER -