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The Pitfalls of Defining Hallucination by Deemter, Kees van

“…Despite impressive advances in Natural Language Generation (NLG) and Large Language Models (LLMs), researchers are still unclear about important aspects of NLG…”
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Dimensions of Explanatory Value in NLP Models by Deemter, Kees van

“…Abstract Performance on a dataset is often regarded as the key criterion for assessing NLP models. I argue for a broader perspective, which emphasizes…”
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Human-annotated rationales and explainable text classification: a survey by Herrewijnen, Elize, Nguyen, Dong, Bex, Floris, van Deemter, Kees

“…Asking annotators to explain "why" they labeled an instance yields annotator rationales: natural language explanations that provide reasons for…”
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Generation of Referring Expressions: Assessing the Incremental Algorithm by Deemter, Kees van, Gatt, Albert, Sluis, Ielka van der, Power, Richard

“…A substantial amount of recent work in natural language generation has focused on the generation of ‘‘one‐shot’’ referring expressions whose only aim is to…”
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Interpreting vision and language generative models with semantic visual priors by Cafagna, Michele, Rojas-Barahona, Lina M., van Deemter, Kees, Gatt, Albert

“…When applied to Image-to-text models, explainability methods have two challenges. First, they often provide token-by-token explanations namely, they compute a…”
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Production of Referring Expressions for an Unknown Audience: A Computational Model of Communal Common Ground by Kutlak, Roman, van Deemter, Kees, Mellish, Chris

“…This article presents a computational model of the production of referring expressions under uncertainty over the hearer's knowledge. Although situations where…”
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Fuzzy-Based Language Grounding of Geographical References: From Writers to Readers by Ramos, Alejandro, Alonso, Jose M., Reiter, Ehud, van Deemter, Kees, Gatt, Albert

“…We describe an applied methodology to build fuzzy models of geographical expressions, which are meant to be used for natural language generation purposes. Our…”
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Towards a Probabilistic Version of Bidirectional OT Syntax and Semantics by van Deemter, Kees

“…This paper argues that a purely probabilistic version of bidirectional Optimality‐Theoretic syntax and semantics Blutner (2000 Journal of Semantics; 17);…”
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Managing Ambiguity in Reference Generation: The Role of Surface Structure by Khan, Imtiaz H., Deemter, Kees van, Ritchie, Graeme

“…This article explores the role of surface ambiguities in referring expressions, and how the risk of such ambiguities should be taken into account by an…”
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Assessing the Incremental Algorithm: A Response to Krahmer et al by Deemter, Kees van, Gatt, Albert, Sluis, Ielka van der, Power, Richard

“…This response discusses the experiment reported in Krahmer et al.’s Letter to the Editor of Cognitive Science. We observe that their results do not tell us…”
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Varieties of specification: Redefining over- and under-specification by Chen, Guanyi, van Deemter, Kees

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Computational Modelling of Quantifier Use: Corpus, Models, and Evaluation by Chen, Guanyi, Van Deemter, Kees

“…A prominent strand of work in formal semantics investigates the ways in which human languages quantify the elements of a set, as when we say All A are B, Few A…”
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Domains of discourse and the semantics of ambiguous utterances: a reply to Gauker by Van Deemter, Kees

“…Van Deemter examines a thought experiment concerning miscommunication used by Christopher Gauker to challenge the expressive theory of communication…”
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Neural referential form selection: Generalisability and interpretability by Chen, Guanyi, Same, Fahime, van Deemter, Kees

“…In recent years, a range of Neural Referring Expression Generation (REG) systems have been built and they have often achieved encouraging results. However,…”
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What do you mean, BERT? Assessing BERT as a Distributional Semantics Model by Mickus, Timothee, Paperno, Denis, Constant, Mathieu, van Deemter, Kees

“…Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 3 (2020), Article 34 Contextualized word embeddings, i.e. vector representations for words in…”
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Reference and the facilitation of search in spatial domains by Paraboni, Ivandré, van Deemter, Kees

“…Earlier work has suggested that, in hierarchically ordered domains (e.g., a document divided into sections and subsections), referring expressions that are…”
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Utility and Language Generation: The Case of Vagueness by van Deemter, Kees

“…This paper asks why information should ever be expressed vaguely, re-assessing some previously proposed answers to this question and suggesting some new ones…”
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Conceptualization in Reference Production: Probabilistic Modeling and Experimental Testing by van Gompel, Roger P. G., van Deemter, Kees, Gatt, Albert, Snoeren, Rick, Krahmer, Emiel J.

“…In psycholinguistics, there has been relatively little work investigating conceptualization-how speakers decide which concepts to express. This contrasts with…”
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Reference and the facilitation of search in spatial domains: Production of referring expressions: Models and empirical datae by PARABONI, Ivandré, VAN DEEMTER, Kees

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Reference Production as Search: The Impact of Domain Size on the Production of Distinguishing Descriptions by Gatt, Albert, Krahmer, Emiel, Deemter, Kees, Gompel, Roger P.G.

“…When producing a description of a target referent in a visual context, speakers need to choose a set of properties that distinguish it from its distractors…”
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