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Mariotti, Andre Costa
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Paraboni, Ivandre
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Declerck, T
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Calzolari, N
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Choukri, K
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Cieri, C
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Hasida, K
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Isahara, H
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Maegaard, B
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Mariani, J
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Moreno, A
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Odijk, J
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Piperidis, S
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Tokunaga, T
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Goggi, S
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Mazo, H
Total Authors: 16
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (LREC 2018); v. N/A, p. 6-pg., 2018-01-01. |
| Abstract | |
In game-like applications and many others, an underlying Natural Language Generation system may have to express urgency or other dynamic aspects of a fast-evolving situation as text, which may be considerably different from text produced under so-called 'normal' circumstances (e.g., without time constrains). As a means to shed light on possible differences of this kind, this paper addresses the computational generation of natural language text in time-constrained communication by presenting two experiments that use the attribute selection task of definite descriptions (or Referring Expression Generation - REG) as a working example. In the first experiment, we describe a psycholinguistic study in which human participants are engaged in a time-constrained reference production task. This results in a corpus of time-constrained descriptions to be compared with 'normal' descriptions available from an existing (i.e., with no time constraint) REG corpus. In the second experiment, we discuss how a REG algorithm may be customised so as to produce time-constrained descriptions that resemble those produced by human speakers in similar situations. The proposed algorithm is then evaluated against the time-constrained descriptions produced by the human subjects in the first experiment, and it is shown to outperform standard approaches to REG in these conditions. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/14223-0 - Computational Treatment of Human Personality for Natural Language Processing Applications |
| Grantee: | Ivandre Paraboni |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |