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Alignment in Interactive Reference Production: Content Planning, Modifier Ordering, and Referential Overspecification
Author(s) -
Goudbeek Martijn,
Krahmer Emiel
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01186.x
Subject(s) - realization (probability) , selection (genetic algorithm) , production (economics) , computer science , content (measure theory) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , expression (computer science) , domain (mathematical analysis) , psychology , linguistics , mathematics , statistics , philosophy , mathematical analysis , economics , macroeconomics , programming language
Psycholinguistic studies often look at the production of referring expressions in interactive settings, but so far few referring expression generation algorithms have been developed that are sensitive to earlier references in an interaction. Rather, such algorithms tend to rely on domain‐dependent preferences for both content selection and linguistic realization. We present three experiments showing that humans may opt for dispreferred attributes and dispreferred modifier orderings when these were primed in a preceding interaction (without speakers being consciously aware of this). In addition, we show that speakers are more likely to produce overspecified references, including dispreferred attributes (although minimal descriptions with preferred attributes would suffice), when these were similarly primed.