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We present an experiment to collect referring expressions produced by human speakers under conditions that favour landmark underspecification. The experiment shows that underspecified landmark descriptions are not only common but, under certain conditions, may be largely preferred over minimally and fully-specified descriptions alike.
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Paraboni, I., Yamasaki, A.K., da Silva, A.S.R., Teixeira, C.V.M. (2014). Generating Underspecified Descriptions of Landmark Objects. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8655. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10816-2_10
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