@inproceedings{villalba-etal-2017-generating,
title = "Generating Contrastive Referring Expressions",
author = "Villalba, Mart{\'\i}n and
Teichmann, Christoph and
Koller, Alexander",
editor = "Barzilay, Regina and
Kan, Min-Yen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2017",
address = "Vancouver, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P17-1063",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P17-1063",
pages = "678--687",
abstract = "The referring expressions (REs) produced by a natural language generation (NLG) system can be misunderstood by the hearer, even when they are semantically correct. In an interactive setting, the NLG system can try to recognize such misunderstandings and correct them. We present an algorithm for generating corrective REs that use contrastive focus ({``}no, the BLUE button{''}) to emphasize the information the hearer most likely misunderstood. We show empirically that these contrastive REs are preferred over REs without contrast marking.",
}
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%A Villalba, Martín
%A Teichmann, Christoph
%A Koller, Alexander
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Markdown (Informal)
[Generating Contrastive Referring Expressions](https://aclanthology.org/P17-1063) (Villalba et al., ACL 2017)
ACL
- Martín Villalba, Christoph Teichmann, and Alexander Koller. 2017. Generating Contrastive Referring Expressions. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 678–687, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.