Dale and Reiter ( 1995 ) , for example , discussed the transcripts of a dialogue between people who assemble a piece of garden furniture ( originally recorded by Candy Sidner ) .
computational interpretations of the gricean maximes in the generation of referring expressions
Robbert Dale Ehud Reiter
We are not aware of any empirical validation of this idea , but the fact that vague descriptions are frequent is fairly well documented . Dale and Reiter ( 1995 ) , for example , discussed the transcripts of a dialogue between people who assemble a piece of garden furniture ( originally recorded by Candy Sidner ) . They found that , while instructional texts tended to use numerical descriptions like the 31 4 '' bolt , human assemblers `` unless they were reading or discussing the written instructions , in all cases used relative modifiers , such as the long bolt '' ( Dale and Reiter 1995 ) .6 Our own experiments ( van Deemter 2004 ) point in the same direction .
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