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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| author | Ivandré Paraboni Alex Gwo Jen Lan Matheus Mendes de Sant'Ana Flávio Luiz Coutinho |
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| description | 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 objects based on different kinds of information. Results suggest that referential overspecification may be either helpful or detrimental to identification depending on the kind of information that is actually overspecified, an insight that may be useful for the design of more informed hearer-oriented REG algorithms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a1ea51c253144883be40bac0a15067e72023-06-25T14:50:05ZengThe MIT PressComputational Linguistics1530-93122017-03-0143210.1162/coli_a_00288Effects of Cognitive Effort on the Resolution of Overspecified DescriptionsIvandré ParaboniAlex Gwo Jen LanMatheus Mendes de Sant'AnaFlávio Luiz CoutinhoStudies 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 objects based on different kinds of information. Results suggest that referential overspecification may be either helpful or detrimental to identification depending on the kind of information that is actually overspecified, an insight that may be useful for the design of more informed hearer-oriented REG algorithms.http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00288 |
| spellingShingle | Ivandré Paraboni Alex Gwo Jen Lan Matheus Mendes de Sant'Ana Flávio Luiz Coutinho Effects of Cognitive Effort on the Resolution of Overspecified Descriptions Computational Linguistics |
| title | Effects of Cognitive Effort on the Resolution of Overspecified Descriptions |
| title_full | Effects of Cognitive Effort on the Resolution of Overspecified Descriptions |
| title_fullStr | Effects of Cognitive Effort on the Resolution of Overspecified Descriptions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of Cognitive Effort on the Resolution of Overspecified Descriptions |
| title_short | Effects of Cognitive Effort on the Resolution of Overspecified Descriptions |
| title_sort | effects of cognitive effort on the resolution of overspecified descriptions |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00288 |
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