Generating overspecified referring expressions: the role of discrimination
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چکیده
We present an experiment to compare a standard, minimally distinguishing algorithm for the generation of relational referring expressions with two alternatives that produce overspecified descriptions. The experiment shows that discrimination which normally plays a major role in the disambiguation task is also a major influence in referential overspecification, even though disambiguation is in principle not relevant.
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