Utility-Based Generation of Referring Expressions

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 306-329

  Guhe, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACT R; Adaptation; Cognitive modeling; Generation of referring expressions; Language generation; Language production; Rational analysis; Task oriented dialog

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SATISFACTION;

ALGORITHMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERSONAL SATISFACTION;

EID: 84859704181     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01185.x     Document Type: Article

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