@inproceedings{li-etal-2018-statistical,
    title = "Statistical {NLG} for Generating the Content and Form of Referring Expressions",
    author = "Li, Xiao  and
      van Deemter, Kees  and
      Lin, Chenghua",
    editor = "Krahmer, Emiel  and
      Gatt, Albert  and
      Goudbeek, Martijn",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation",
    month = nov,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Tilburg University, The Netherlands",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Add-Cong-Liu-Florida-Atlantic-University-author-id/W18-6561/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-6561",
    pages = "482--491",
    abstract = "This paper argues that a new generic approach to statistical NLG can be made to perform Referring Expression Generation (REG) successfully. The model does not only select attributes and values for referring to a target referent, but also performs Linguistic Realisation, generating an actual Noun Phrase. Our evaluations suggest that the attribute selection aspect of the algorithm exceeds classic REG algorithms, while the Noun Phrases generated are as similar to those in a previously developed corpus as were Noun Phrases produced by a new set of human speakers."
}