@inproceedings{ali-etal-2025-towards,
    title = "Towards Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Referring Expression Generation",
    author = "Ali, Manar  and
      Sarzotti, Marika  and
      Junker, Simeon  and
      Buschmeier, Hendrik  and
      Zarrie{\ss}, Sina",
    editor = "Ilinykh, Nikolai  and
      Appelgren, Mattias  and
      Lagerstedt, Erik",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 CLASP Conference on Language models And RePresentations (LARP)",
    month = sep,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Gothenburg, Sweden",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/tal-24-ingestion/2025.clasp-main.4/",
    pages = "38--50",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-249-7",
    abstract = "Referring Expression Generation (REG) has a long-standing tradition in computational linguistics, and often aims to develop cognitively plausible models of language generation and dialogue modeling, in a multimodal context. Traditional approaches to reference have been mostly symbolic, recent ones have been mostly neural. Inspired by the recent interest in neuro-symbolic approaches in both fields {--} language and vision {--} we revisit REG from these perspectives. We review relevant neuro-symbolic approaches to language generation on the one hand and vision on the other hand, exploring possible future directions for cognitively plausible models of reference generation/reference game modeling."
}