Referring in dialogue: Alignment or construction?

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 950-974

  Viethen, Jette ^a   Dale, Robert ^b   Guhe, Markus ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment; Computational modelling; Machine learning; Reference production

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALIGNMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONVERSATION; DECISION TREE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPEECH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84928992621     PISSN: 23273798     EISSN: 23273801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2013.827224     Document Type: Article

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