Le 5 octobre 1955, le Staatsoper à Vienne, reconstruit, rouvrait solennellement avec une représentation de Fidelio, l’unique opéra Beethoven. Si Vienne ne constitue pas seul cas soirée inaugurale après la Seconde Guerre mondiale en programmant viennois représente néanmoins un événement tout fait singulier. L’opéra Beethoven et réouverture l’Opéra y acquièrent dimension hautement symbolique cons...

In situated dialogue, humans and agents have mismatched capabilities of perceiving the shared environment. Their representations of the shared world are misaligned. Thus referring expression generation (REG) will need to take this discrepancy into consideration. To address this issue, we developed a hypergraph-based approach to account for group-based spatial relations and uncertainties in perc...

When they introduced the Graph-Based Algorithm (GBA) for referring expression generation, Krahmer et al. (2003) flaunted the natural way in which it deals with relations between objects; but this feature has never been tested empirically. We fill this gap in this paper, exploring referring expression generation from the perspective of the GBA and focusing in particular on generating human-like ...

The TUNA Challenge was a set of three shared tasks at REG’08, all of which used data from the TUNA Corpus. The three tasks covered attribute selection for referring expressions (TUNA-AS), realisation (TUNA-R) and end-toend referring expression generation (TUNAREG). 8 teams submitted a total of 33 systems to the three tasks, with an additional submission to the Open Track. The evaluation used a ...

Adrienne Rich’s poem “The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message” has become fixture in musicological accounts and the ever since its introduction to discipline an influential essay by Susan McClary. But though work been cited numerous books articles intervening decades, it remained yoked McClary’s text, with critics rarely considering on own terms. This paper consid...

In this paper, we explore a corpus of human-produced referring expressions to see to what extent we can learn the referential behaviour the corpus represents. Despite a wide variation in the way subjects refer across a set of ten stimuli, we demonstrate that component elements of the referring expression generation process appear to generalise across participants to a significant degree. This l...