The Prevalence of Descriptive Referring Expressions in News and Narrative

Generating referring expressions is a key step in Natural Language Generation. Researchers have focused almost exclusively on generating distinctive referring expressions, that is, referring expressions that uniquely identify their intended referent. While undoubtedly one of their most important functions, referring expressions can be more than distinctive. In particular, descriptive referring expressions

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Raquel Hervás, Mark A. Finlayson
• Keywords: ACL 2010, Computational Linguistics, Descriptive Referring Expressions, Distinctive Referring Expressions, Natural Language Generation