Abstract
We model the production of quantified referring expressions (QREs) that identify collections of visual items. To address this task, we propose a method of perceptual cost pruning, which consists of two steps: (1) determine what subset of quantity information can be perceived given a time limit t, and (2) apply a preference order based REG algorithm (e.g., the Incremental Algorithm) to this reduced set of information. We demonstrate that this method successfully improves the human-likeness of the IA in the QRE generation task and successfully models human-generated language in most cases.- Anthology ID:
- W19-8602
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
- Month:
- October–November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Tokyo, Japan
- Venue:
- INLG
- SIG:
- SIGGEN
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 11–18
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-8602
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-8602
- Cite (ACL):
- Gordon Briggs and Hillary Harner. 2019. Generating Quantified Referring Expressions with Perceptual Cost Pruning. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 11–18, Tokyo, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Generating Quantified Referring Expressions with Perceptual Cost Pruning (Briggs & Harner, INLG 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/W19-8602.pdf