TY  - GEN
A1  - Zarriess, Sina
A1  - Schlangen, David
T1  - Objects of Unknown Categories
T2  - The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
N2  - Zero-shot learning in Language & Vision is the task of correctly labelling (or naming) objects of novel categories. Another strand of work in L&V aims at pragmatically informative rather than "correct" object descriptions, e.g. in reference games. We combine these lines of research and model zero-shot reference games, where a speaker needs to successfully refer to a novel object in an image. Inspired by models of "rational speech acts", we extend a neural generator to become a pragmatic speaker reasoning about uncertain object categories. As a result of this reasoning, the generator produces fewer nouns and names of distractor categories as compared to a literal speaker. We show that this conversational strategy for dealing with novel objects often improves communicative success, in terms of resolution accuracy of an automatic listener.
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-1-950737-48-2
SP  - 654
EP  - 659
PB  - Association for Computational Linguistics
CY  - Stroudsburg
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jasinskaja, Ekaterina
A1  - Mayer, Jörg
A1  - Schlangen, David
T1  - Discourse structure and information structure
BT  - interfaces and prosodic realization
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - In this paper we review the current state of research on the issue of discourse structure (DS)/information structure (IS) interface. This field has received a lot of attention from discourse semanticists and pragmatists, and has made substantial progress in recent years. In this paper we summarize the relevant studies. In addition, we look at the issue of DS/ISinteraction at a different level - that of phonetics. It is known that both information structure and discourse structure can be realized prosodically, but the issue of phonetic interaction between the prosodic devices they employ has hardly ever been discussed in this context. We think that a proper consideration of this aspect of DS/IS-interaction would enrich our understanding of the phenomenon, and hence we formulate some related research-programmatic positions.
KW  - discourse structure
KW  - information structure
KW  - prosody
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8414
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 1
SP  - 151
EP  - 206
ER  -