title: Alignment in interactive reference production: content planning, modifier ordering, and referential overspecification.
abstract: Psycholinguistic studies often look at the production of referring expressions in interactive settings, but so far few referring expression generation algorithms have been developed that are sensitive to earlier references in an interaction. Rather, such algorithms tend to rely on domain-dependent preferences for both content selection and linguistic realization. We present three experiments showing that humans may opt for dispreferred attributes and dispreferred modifier orderings when these were primed in a preceding interaction (without speakers being consciously aware of this). In addition, we show that speakers are more likely to produce overspecified references, including dispreferred attributes (although minimal descriptions with preferred attributes would suffice), when these were similarly primed.
authors.affiliation: Tilburg Centre for Cognition and Communication (TiCC), School of Humanities, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. m.b.goudbeek@uvt.nl
authors.forename: Martijn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goudbeek
authors.forename: Emiel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Krahmer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D013060:Speech; D014825:Vocabulary