TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a Computational Psycholinguistics of Reference Production
AU - van Deemter, K.
AU - Gatt, A.
AU - van Gompel, R. P.
AU - Krahmer, E.
N1 - Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/4/1
Y1 - 2012/4/1
N2 - This article introduces the topic ''Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the Gap between Computational and Empirical Approaches to Reference'' of the journal Topics in Cognitive Science. We argue that computational and psycholinguistic approaches to reference production can benefit from closer interaction, and that this is likely to result in the construction of algorithms that differ markedly from the ones currently known in the computational literature. We focus particularly on determinism, the feature of existing algorithms that is perhaps most clearly at odds with psycholinguistic results, discussing how future algorithms might include non-determinism, and how new psycholinguistic experiments could inform the development of such algorithms.
AB - This article introduces the topic ''Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the Gap between Computational and Empirical Approaches to Reference'' of the journal Topics in Cognitive Science. We argue that computational and psycholinguistic approaches to reference production can benefit from closer interaction, and that this is likely to result in the construction of algorithms that differ markedly from the ones currently known in the computational literature. We focus particularly on determinism, the feature of existing algorithms that is perhaps most clearly at odds with psycholinguistic results, discussing how future algorithms might include non-determinism, and how new psycholinguistic experiments could inform the development of such algorithms.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01187.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01187.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 22389170
AN - SCOPUS:84859770461
SN - 1756-8757
VL - 4
SP - 166
EP - 183
JO - Topics in Cognitive Science
JF - Topics in Cognitive Science
IS - 2
ER -