The Non-deictic Use of Demonstratives in Conversations and Interpreted Speeches in Contemporary Hong Kong Cantonese

Evaluation of Multilingual Ability to Use Spatial Deictic Expressions in Vision-Language Models

One of the expected abilities of vision-language models (VLMs) is spatial reasoning ability based on a given text and image. To evaluate the spatial reasoning abilities of VLMs, we focus on the use of spatial deictic exp…

Deictic Codes, Demonstratives, and Reference: A Step Toward Solving the Grounding Problem

In this paper we address the issue of grounding for experiential concepts. Given that perceptual demonstratives are a basic form of such concepts, we examine ways of fixing the referents of such demonstratives. To avoid …

Investigating Information-Theoretic Properties of the Typology of Spatial Demonstratives

Using data from Nintemann et al. (2020), we explore the variability in complexity and informativity across spatial demonstrative systems using spatial deictic lexicons from 223 languages. We argue from an information-the…

The WAW Corpus: The First Corpus of Interpreted Speeches and their Translations for English and Arabic

How Mutual Knowledge Constrains the Choice of Anaphoric Demonstratives in Japanese and English