Workshop Program & Proceedings
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- Proceedings of the Workshop on the Production of Referring Expressions (PRE-CogSci 2011) - Preface
- 09.00 Opening
- 09.00 - 09.50 Invited talk: Amanda Stent - Computational Approaches to the Production of Referring Expressions: Dialog
Changes (Almost) Everything - 09.50 - 10.10 Jette Viethen, Robert Dale and Markus Guhe - Serial Dependency: Is It a Characteristic of Human Referring Expression Generation?
- 10.10 - 10.30 Elise C. Rosa and Jennifer E. Arnold - The Role of Attention in Choice of Referring Expression
- 10.30 - 11.00 Break (tea/coffee/refreshments)
- 11.00 - 11.20 Martijn Goudbeek and Emiel Krahmer - Referring Under Load: Disentangling Preference-based and Alignment-based Content Selection Processes
- 11.20 - 11.40 Margaret Mitchell, Kees van Deemter and Ehud Reiter - Applying Machine Learning to the Choice of Size Modifiers
- 11.40 - 12.00 Kathleen Carbary and Michael Tanenhaus - Conceptual Pacts, Syntactic Priming, and Referential Form
- 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
- 13.00 - 13.50 Invited talk: Jeanette Gundel - Underspecification of Cognitive Status in Reference Production: The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface
- 13.50 - 14.10 Hans Westerbeek and Alfons Maes - Referential Scope and Visual Clutter in Navigation Tasks
- 14.10 - 14.30 Matt Green and Kees van Deemter - Vagueness as Cost Reduction: An Empirical Test
- 14.30 - 16.00 Poster session
- Peter Bosch, Sascha Alexeyenko, Kerstin Brukamp, Maria Cieschinger, Xiaoye Deng and Peter Koenig - Definite Reference: Salience is Only a Poor Substitute for Uniqueness
- Lindsay Butler, T. Florian Jaeger and Juergen Bohnemeyer - Learning to Express Visual Contrasts in the Production of Referring Expressions in Yucatec Maya
- Sofiana Chiriacescu and Klaus von Heusinger - The Discourse Structuring Potential of Two Types of Definite Noun Phrases in Romanian
- Albert Gatt, Roger van Gompel, Emiel Krahmer and Kees van Deemter - Non-Deterministic Attribute Selection in Reference Production
- Elsi Kaiser, Edward Holsinger and David Cheng-Huan Li - It's Not the Words, But How You Say Them: Effects of Referential Predictability on the Production of Names and Pronouns
- Leila Kantola and Roger van Gompel - Does the Addressee Matter when Choosing Referring Expressions?
- Mariya Khudyakova, Andrej Kibrik, Natalia Loukachevitch and Grigory Dobrov - Computational Modeling Of Referential Choice: Major And Minor Referential Options
- Rama Novogrodsky - Ambiguous Pronoun Production in Narratives of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Si On Yoon, Sungryong Koh and Sarah Brown-Schmidt - Speaker Goals Modulate Audience Design in Conversation
- Adam Vogel and Dan Jurafsky - Partially Observable Stochastic Games
- 15.00 - 15.30 Break during poster session (tea/coffee/refreshments)
- 16.00 - 16.20 Jacolien van Rij, Hedderik van Rijn and Petra Hendriks - Towards a cognitively plausible computational model of reference
- 16.20 - 17.10 Invited talk: Dale Barr - Audience design as expert performance
- 17.10 - 18.00 Discussion and Closing