Why discourse affects speakers' choice of referring expressions

Quantifying the role of discourse topicality in speakers' choices of referring expressions

Computational Interpretations of Recency for the Choice of Referring Expressions in Discourse

First, we discuss the most common linguistic perspectives on the concept of recency and propose a taxonomy of recency metrics employed in Machine Learning studies for choosing the form of referring expressions in discour…

Does referent predictability affect the choice of referential form? A computational approach using masked coreference resolution

It is often posited that more predictable parts of a speaker's meaning tend to be made less explicit, for instance using shorter, less informative words. Studying these dynamics in the domain of referring expressions has…

LVLMs are Bad at Overhearing Human Referential Communication

During spontaneous conversations, speakers collaborate on novel referring expressions, which they can then re-use in subsequent conversations. Understanding such referring expressions is an important ability for an embod…

``Talk to me with left, right, and angles'': Lexical entrainment in spoken Hebrew dialogue

It has been well-documented for several languages that human interlocutors tend to adapt their linguistic productions to become more similar to each other. This behavior, known as entrainment, affects lexical choice as w…