2 March: fyi -- NL generation, NL

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Dear colleague,

We have a vacancy for a Postdoc (two years, full time) working on the generation of referring expressions. The following are possible themes for the current position (which can be addressed from a computational and/or an experimental perspective):

- How does visual perception influence the production of referring expressions?
- How do speakers decide on the form (e.g., pronoun, name or description) and linguistic realization (verbal and non-verbal) of referring expressions?
- How to account for non-determinism and individual variation in reference production?
- When and how do human speakers produce complex descriptions (e.g., plurals, quantified descriptions, relational descriptions)?
- What is the influence of common ground and shared/private information on reference?
- How do social and contextual factors influence reference production and understanding?
- How might these various influences be integrated into a psychologically realistic computational model of reference production?

Details about the project can be found here. More about the application procedure can be found here.

Kind regards,

Emiel Krahmer
Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC)
http://www.emielkrahmer.nl/

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