@InProceedings{vandeemter-EtAl:2017:INLG2017,
  author    = {van Deemter, Kees  and  Sun, Le  and  Sybesma, Rint  and  Li, Xiao  and  Bo, Chen  and  Yang, Muyun},
  title     = {Investigating the content and form of referring expressions in Mandarin: introducing the Mtuna corpus},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation},
  month     = {September},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Santiago de Compostela, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {213--217},
  abstract  = {East Asian languages are thought to handle reference differently from languages
	such as English, particularly in terms of the marking of definiteness and
	number. We present the first Data-Text corpus for Referring Expressions in
	Mandarin, and we use this corpus to test some initial hypotheses inspired by
	the theoretical linguistics literature. Our findings suggest that function
	words deserve more attention in Referring Expressions Generation than they have
	so far received, and they have a bearing on the debate about whether different
	languages make different trade-offs between clarity and brevity.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-3532}
}