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Dale, Robert; Reiter, Ehud – Cognitive Science, 1995
Presents four computational interpretations of the Gricean conversational maxims in the generation of referring expressions: (1) full brevity interpretation; (2) greedy heuristic interpretation; (3) local brevity interpretation; and (4) incremental interpretation. Examines problems involved in generating definite noun phrases that are appropriate…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Expressive Language, Nouns, Phrase Structure