Effects of Cognitive Effort on the Resolution of Overspecified Descriptions

Studies in referring expression generation (REG) have shown different effects of referential overspecification on the resolution of certain descriptions. To further investigate effects of this kind, this article reports two eye-tracking experiments that measure the time required to recognize target...

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Main Authors: Ivandré Paraboni, Alex Gwo Jen Lan, Matheus Mendes de Sant'Ana, Flávio Luiz Coutinho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2017-03-01
Series:Computational Linguistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00288