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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Referring Expression"”.
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Weakly supervised learning from referring expression: Challenge and directions
… methods of weakly supervised learning from referring expression. Unlike traditional fully supervised semantic segmentation of object recognition tasks, in which a a small set of discrete class bases is provided, the referring expression task is performed associated with a sentence phrase, …
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Impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation
… dissertation examines the impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation in German-speaking preschoolers. A puzzle in the area of language acquisition concerns the production-comprehension asymmetry for non-canonical sentences like "Den Affen fängt die Kuh." …
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Classifier constructions as procedural signs in American Sign Language
… are used and that they function as a procedural referring expression.</p>
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The 'I' in First-Person Thought and What is Meant by Self-Knowledge
… question about whether or not ‘I’ is actually a referring expression? In this paper I explore two accounts from both sides of the debate which opens up a dialectical space for determining a positive answer for this question. On the one hand, ‘I’ is said to be a referring term for the speaker or …
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An expectation model of referring expressions
… introduces EMRE, an expectation-based model of referring expressions. EMRE is proposed as a model of non-syntactic dependencies - in particular, discourse-level semantic dependencies that bridge sentence gaps. These include but are not limited to anaphora (references to noun phrases in previous …
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Interactive generation of effective discourse in situated context : a planning-based approach
… over multiple utterances rather than one long referring expression. Further, to optimize the system's linguistic choices in a given context, we learn how to distinguish speaker behavior according to its helpfulness to hearers in a certain situation, and we model the behavior of human speakers …
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Participant reference in narrative discourse: A comparison of three methodologies
… assesses the point within an episode at which a referring expression occurs.</p> <p>Stephen H. Levinsohn developed a third strategy for analyzing referential systems in narrative texts. Informally called the Default/Marked method, he suggests categorizing subject and non-subject nominals into one …