Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 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 |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| Pages | 1639-1649 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781941643723 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 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 - Beijing, China Duration: 2015 Jul 26 → 2015 Jul 31 |
Publication series
| Name | 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 |
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| Volume | 1 |
Conference
| Conference | 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 |
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| Country | China |
| City | Beijing |
| Period | 15/7/26 → 15/7/31 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software
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Orita, N., Vornov, E., Feldman, N. H., & Daumé, H. (2015). Why discourse affects speakers' choice of referring expressions. In 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 (pp. 1639-1649). (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; Vol. 1). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).