@InProceedings{villalba-teichmann-koller:2017:Long,
  author    = {Villalba, Martin  and  Teichmann, Christoph  and  Koller, Alexander},
  title     = {Generating Contrastive Referring Expressions},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  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.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/P17-1063}
}