This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG),
defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is …

This article offers a survey of computational research on referring expression generation
(REG). It introduces the REG problem and describes early work in this area, discussing what …

Discourse analysis draws upon different disciplinary insights from linguistics, anthropology,
psychology, sociology, communication studies, and education research. Discourse analysts …

An elementary way of using language is to refer to objects. Often, these objects are
physically present in the shared environment and reference is done via mention of …

A formal semantics for low-level perceptual aspects of meaning is presented, tying these
together with the logical-inferential aspects of meaning traditionally studied in formal …

This article describes the application of computational models of spatial prepositions to
visually situated dialog systems. In these dialogs, spatial prepositions are important because …

We introduce a novel algorithm for generating referring expressions, informed by human
and computer vision and designed to refer to visible objects. Our method separates absolute …

Referring expression generation (REG) presents the converse problem to visual search:
given a scene and a specified target, how does one generate a description which would …

Salient entities are assumed to be more accessible in memory, which makes them more
likely to be referred to first and to be referred to with an attenuated expression, such as a …

In this paper we report on the release of a corpus of English spontaneous instruction giving
situated dialogs. The corpus was collected using the Quake environment, a first-person …