A comparative study of weighting schemes for the interpretation of spoken referring expressions

Su Nam Kim; Ingrid Zukerman; Thomas Kleinbauer; Masud Moshtaghi

A comparative study of weighting schemes for the interpretation of spoken referring expressions

Su Nam Kim, Ingrid Zukerman, Thomas Kleinbauer, Masud Moshtaghi

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Abstract

This paper empirically explores the influence of two types of factors on the interpretation of spoken object descriptions: (1) descriptive attributes, e.g., colour and size; and (2) interpretation stages, e.g., syntax and pragmatics. We also investigate two schemes for combining attributes when estimating the goodness of an interpretation: Multiplicative and Additive. Our results show that the former scheme outperforms the latter, and that the weights assigned to the attributes of a description and the stages of an interpretation influence interpretation accuracy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014 - Proceedings of the Workshop (ALTA)
Editors	Gabriela Ferraro, Stephen Wan
Place of Publication	Stroudsburg PA USA
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	50-58
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014 - RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 26 Nov 2014 → 28 Nov 2014 Conference number: 12th https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/alta-2014/ (Proceedings)

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Conference	Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014
Abbreviated title	ALTAW 2014
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	26/11/14 → 28/11/14
Other	ALTA 2014 will be held in conjuction with the 19th Australasian Document Computing Symposium 2014 (ADCS 2014).
Internet address	https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/alta-2014/ (Proceedings)

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Kim, Su Nam ; Zukerman, Ingrid ; Kleinbauer, Thomas et al. / A comparative study of weighting schemes for the interpretation of spoken referring expressions. Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014 - Proceedings of the Workshop (ALTA). editor / Gabriela Ferraro ; Stephen Wan. Stroudsburg PA USA : Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2014. pp. 50-58

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Kim, SN, Zukerman, I, Kleinbauer, T & Moshtaghi, M 2014, A comparative study of weighting schemes for the interpretation of spoken referring expressions. in G Ferraro & S Wan (eds), Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014 - Proceedings of the Workshop (ALTA). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Stroudsburg PA USA, pp. 50-58, Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 26/11/14.

A comparative study of weighting schemes for the interpretation of spoken referring expressions. / Kim, Su Nam; Zukerman, Ingrid; Kleinbauer, Thomas et al.
Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014 - Proceedings of the Workshop (ALTA). ed. / Gabriela Ferraro; Stephen Wan. Stroudsburg PA USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2014. p. 50-58.

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