Following Pinkal ( 1979 ) , such expressions will be called vague descriptions even though , as we shall see , the vagueness of the adjective does not extend to the description as a whole .
how to refer with vague descriptions
Manfred Pinkal
This article focuses on gradable adjectives , also called degree adjectives .1 More specifically , we shall explore how referring expressions containing gradable adjectives can be produced by a Natural Language Generation ( NLG ) program . Following Pinkal ( 1979 ) , such expressions will be called vague descriptions even though , as we shall see , the vagueness of the adjective does not extend to the description as a whole . It will be useful to generalize over different forms of the adjective , covering the superlative form ( e.g. , largest ) and the comparative form ( larger ) , as well as the positive or base form ( large ) of the adjective .
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