Stars2: a corpus of object descriptions in a visual domain

• DOI: 10.1007/s10579-016-9350-y
• Publication Date: 2016-03-18T16:52:09Z
• Authors: Ivandré Paraboni; Michelle Reis Gal...; Douglas Iacovelli
• Keywords: Expression (computer science)

This paper presents the Stars2 corpus of definite descriptions for referring expression generation (REG). The corpus was produced in collaborative communication involving speaker-hearer pairs, and includes situations of reference that are arguably under-represented in similar work. Stars2 is intended as an incremental contribution to the research in REG and related fields, and it may be used both as training/test data for algorithms of this kind, and also to gain further insights into reference phenomena in general, with a particular focus on the issue of attribute choice in referential overspecification.