Corpus Evidence for Preference-Driven Interpretation
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چکیده
We present the Cards corpus of task-oriented dialogues and show how it can inform study of the ways in which discourse is goaland preference-driven. We report on three experimental studies involving underspecified referential expressions and quantifier domain restriction.
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