@inproceedings{briggs-harner-2019-generating,
    title = "Generating Quantified Referring Expressions with Perceptual Cost Pruning",
    author = "Briggs, Gordon  and
      Harner, Hillary",
    editor = "van Deemter, Kees  and
      Lin, Chenghua  and
      Takamura, Hiroya",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation",
    month = oct # "{--}" # nov,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Tokyo, Japan",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-8602",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-8602",
    pages = "11--18",
    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.",
}