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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Referring expressions"”.
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Choosing referring expressions
… the use of pronouns (relative to more explicit expressions) is affected by the referent’s salience in the prior linguistic context, but much less is known about how non-linguistic context affects the referent’s salience and the choice of expression. Recent research has suggested that the …
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Embodied multimodal referring expressions generation
… introduce SCMRE, a situated corpus of multimodal referring expressions (MREs) intended for training generative AI systems in multimodal IVA, focusing on multimodal referring expressions. Our contributions include: 1) Developing an IVA platform that interprets human multimodal instructions and …
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Child acquisition of referring expressions
Children, like adults, use referring expressions to refer to specific objects, events, or people. Research has provided insights into how children use referring expressions and the appearance of forms developmentally (Radford, 1990; Abu-Akel, et al., 2004; Pine & Lieven, 1997). This study examined …
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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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Referring expressions in Chinese and English discourse
… attempts to account for the use of such referring expressions in Chinese, based on Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski's (1993) Givenness Hierarchy, and compares the discourse use of Chinese referring expressions with those of English. The Givenness Hierarchy is given below: THE GIVENNESS …
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Generating and interpreting referring expressions in context
Referring expressions with vague and ambiguous modifiers, such as "a quick visit" and "the big meeting," are difficult for computers to interpret because their meanings are defined in part by context. For the hearer to arrive at the speaker's intended meaning, he must consider the alternative …
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The prominence of referring expressions: message and lexical level effects
… language production system and the prominence of referring expressions. In particular, this thesis focuses on the effect of processing at the message and lexical levels of language production. Across seven experiments, I examine three factors that affect prominence: predictability, repetition, and …
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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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Mechanisms of conversation: audience design and memory
… unfamiliar with the labels, speakers use longer expressions to facilitate understanding. How this process of audience design scales up to conversations among three or more individuals is unknown. Further, while memory is thought to play an essential role in audience design, the link between …
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Exploring mixed reality robot communication under different types of mental workload
… when these gestures are paired with verbal referring expressions and deployed under various types of mental workload of human teammates. We also present a software architecture that enables mixed reality gestural capabilities, and present the results of a human subject experiment that …
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Projected self: the de se across dimensions and beyond pronouns
… outside the assertive domain, as well as by expressions which are not really pronouns, such as nouns. First of all, it provides evidence that expressives are necessarily de se, which means that non-pronominal expressions, such as nouns, verbs etc. can be de se in a non-assertive dimension. …
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A computational model to connect gestalt perception and natural language
… with gestalt processes in order to connect referring expressions to visual groups. Our computational model can be divided into two stages. The first stage performs grouping on visual scenes. It takes a visual scene segmented into block objects as input, and creates a space of possible …
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One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish
… studies the use and cognitive processing of referring expressions like one in comparison with other expression types in spoken Danish. The cognitive status of referents in other people’s minds can be understood in terms or referential givenness. The common view of givenness is that it …
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Representation and Acquisition of Kind Reference in L2 English
… the acquisition of sentences that contain kind-referring expressions such as The dodo is extinct. Such statements clearly pose a learnability problem in second language acquisition of English since they are seldom, if ever, taught explicitly. Neither are such expressions plentiful in the input …
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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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Comprehension and Production of Contrastive Reference in Autism
… often exhibit differences in their use of referring expressions during discourse, characterized by the production of ambiguous expressions or the tendency to provide too little or too much information. Although several studies have investigated the social communicative behavior of autistic …