Models of Reference

• Main Author: Roger P.G. van Gompel (auth)
• Other Authors: Emiel Krahmer (auth), Albert Gatt (auth), Kees van Deemter (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Over-specification; Variation between Speakers; referring expressions; Computational models; audience design; Visual Perception
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

To communicate, speakers need to make it clear what they are talking about. Referring expressions play a crucial part in achieving this, by anchoring utterances to things. Examples of referring expressions include noun phrases such as "this phenomenon", "it" and "the phenome...