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标题：Generating Referring Expressions that Involve Gradable Properties
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作者：Kees van Deemter
期刊名称：Computational Linguistics
印刷版ISSN：0891-2017
电子版ISSN：1530-9312
出版年度：2006
卷号：32
期号：2
页码：195-222
DOI：10.1162/coli.2006.32.2.195
语种：English
出版社：MIT Press
摘要：This article examines the role of gradable properties in referring expressions from the perspective of natural language generation. First, we propose a simple semantic analysis of vague descriptions (i.e., referring expressions that contain gradable adjectives) that reflects the context-dependent meaning of the adjectives in them. Second, we show how this type of analysis can inform algorithms for the generation of vague descriptions from numerical data. Third, we ask when such descriptions should be used. The article concludes with a discussion of salience and pointing , which are analyzed as if they were gradable adjectives.