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title = "Investigating the content and form of referring expressions in {M}andarin: introducing the Mtuna corpus",
author = "van Deemter, Kees and
Sun, Le and
Sybesma, Rint and
Li, Xiao and
Chen, Bo and
Yang, Muyun",
editor = "Alonso, Jose M. and
Bugar{\'\i}n, Alberto and
Reiter, Ehud",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation",
month = sep,
year = "2017",
address = "Santiago de Compostela, Spain",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W17-3532",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-3532",
pages = "213--217",
abstract = "East Asian languages are thought to handle reference differently from languages such as English, particularly in terms of the marking of definiteness and number. We present the first Data-Text corpus for Referring Expressions in Mandarin, and we use this corpus to test some initial hypotheses inspired by the theoretical linguistics literature. Our findings suggest that function words deserve more attention in Referring Expressions Generation than they have so far received, and they have a bearing on the debate about whether different languages make different trade-offs between clarity and brevity.",
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%A van Deemter, Kees
%A Sun, Le
%A Sybesma, Rint
%A Li, Xiao
%A Chen, Bo
%A Yang, Muyun
%Y Alonso, Jose M.
%Y Bugarín, Alberto
%Y Reiter, Ehud
%S Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
%D 2017
%8 September
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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%X East Asian languages are thought to handle reference differently from languages such as English, particularly in terms of the marking of definiteness and number. We present the first Data-Text corpus for Referring Expressions in Mandarin, and we use this corpus to test some initial hypotheses inspired by the theoretical linguistics literature. Our findings suggest that function words deserve more attention in Referring Expressions Generation than they have so far received, and they have a bearing on the debate about whether different languages make different trade-offs between clarity and brevity.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/W17-3532
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-3532
%P 213-217
Markdown (Informal)
[Investigating the content and form of referring expressions in Mandarin: introducing the Mtuna corpus](https://aclanthology.org/W17-3532) (van Deemter et al., INLG 2017)
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