The Role of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions
<|reference_start|>The Role of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions: Grice's maxims of conversation [Grice 1975] are framed as directives to be followed by a speaker of the language. This paper argues that, when considered from the point of view of natural language generation, such a characterisation is rather misleading, and that the desired behaviour falls out quite naturally if we view language generation as a goal-oriented process. We argue this position with particular regard to the generation of referring expressions.<|reference_end|>
@article{dale1996the,
    title={The Role of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring
  Expressions},
    author={Robert Dale (Microsoft Institute, Sydney, Australia) and Ehud Reiter
  (University of Aberdeen, UK)},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9604006},
    year={1996},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9604006},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}