Workshop Program & Proceedings
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- Proceedings of the Workshop on the Production of Referring Expressions (PRE-CogSci 2009) - Preface
- 09.00 Opening
- 09.00 - 09.50 Keynote lecture: William S. Horton (Northwestern University, USA) - Memory and Other Limits on Audience Design in Reference Production
- 09.50 - 10.10 Albert Gatt and Kees van Deemter - Generating plural NPs in discourse: Evidence from the GNOME corpus
- 10.10 - 10.30 Daphna Heller, Kristen Skovbroten and Michael K. Tanenhaus - Experimental evidence for speakers’ sensitivity to common vs. privileged ground in the production of names
- 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee / Tea
- 11.00 - 11.20 Martijn Goudbeek, Emiel Krahmer and Marc Swerts - Alignment of (dis)preferred properties during the production of
referring expressions
- 11.20 - 11.40 Charlie Greenbacker and Kathleen McCoy - Feature Selection for Reference Generation as informed by psycholinguistic research
- 11.40 - 12.00 Kumiko Fukumura and Roger van Gompel - Speakers use their own, privileged discourse model to determine referents’ accessibility during the production of referring expressions
- 12.00 - 12.20 Jette Viethen and Robert Dale - Referring Expression Generation: what can we learn from human data?
- 12.20 - 12.40 Danielle Matthews, Elena Lieven and Michael Tomasello - The development of reference from birth to four years
- 12.40 - 13.30 Lunch
- 13.30 - 15.00 Poster session (see below)
- 15.00 - 15.30 Coffee / Tea
- 15.30 - 15.50 Paul Piwek - Salience and Pointing in Multimodal Reference
- 15.50 - 16.10 Harry Tily and Steven Piantadosi - Refer efficiently: Use less informative expressions for more predictable meanings
- 16.10 - 16.30 Maria Staudte and Matthew Crocker - Producing and resolving multimodal referring expressions in human-robot interaction
- 16.30 - 17.20 Keynote lecture: Deb Roy (MIT, USA) - Referring Expressions: Straddling the Divide
- 17.20 Closing
Posters
- Markus Guhe - Generating referring expressions with a cognitive model
- Catherine Davies and Napoleon Katsos - Are interlocutors as sensitive to over-informativeness as they are to under-informativeness?
- Iker Zulaica - Referential distance, demonstrative anaphors and the current focus of attention
- Ruud Koolen, Albert Gatt, Martijn Goudbeek and Emiel Krahmer - ‘Need I say more?’ On factors causing referential overspecification
- Tuan Lam and Duane Watson - Repetition is easy: Why repeated referents have reduced prominence
- Philipp Spanger, Yasuhara Masaaki, Iida Ryu, Tokunaga Tokenobu - Using extra linguistic information for generating demonstrative pronouns in a situated collaboration task
- Kees van Deemter and Albert Gatt - Beyond DICE: measuring the quality of a referring expression
- Ielka van der Sluis, Junko Nagai, Saturnino Luz - Producing Referring Expressions in Dialogue: Insights from a translation exercise
- Ellen Gurman Bard, Robin Hill, Manabu Arai and Mary Ellen Foster - Accessibility and Attention in Situated Dialogue: Roles and Regulations
- Raquel Fernández - Salience and Feature Variability in Definite Descriptions with Positive-form Vague Adjectives
- Eileen Graf, Anna Theakston, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello - The discourse feature Contrast Accounts for Subject and Object Omission in Early Child Language
- Srinivasan Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon - A Data driven method for Adaptive Referring Expression Generation in Automated Dialogue Systems: Maximising Expected Utility
- Jacolien van Rij, Petra Hendriks & Hedderik van Rijn - Integrating discourse in a computational model of the production and comprehension of referring expressions