Informativity, topicality, and speech cost

This study formalizes and compares two major hypotheses in speakers' choices of referring expressions: the Topicality model that chooses a form based on the topicality of the referent, and the Rational model that chooses a form based on the informativity of the form and its speech cost

Economics · Linguistics · Metric (unit · Referent · Speech recognition · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems

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