%0 Conference Proceedings %T Pragmatic descriptions of perceptual stimuli %A van Miltenburg, Emiel %Y Kunneman, Florian %Y Iñurrieta, Uxoa %Y Camilleri, John J. %Y Ardanuy, Mariona Coll %S Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics %D 2017 %8 April %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Valencia, Spain %F van-miltenburg-2017-pragmatic %X This research proposal discusses pragmatic factors in image description, arguing that current automatic image description systems do not take these factors into account. I present a general model of the human image description process, and propose to study this process using corpus analysis, experiments, and computational modeling. This will lead to a better characterization of human image description behavior, providing a road map for future research in automatic image description, and the automatic description of perceptual stimuli in general. %U https://aclanthology.org/E17-4001 %P 1-10