Ehud Reiter

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 1995–2018

Ehud Reiter wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 1995–2018, most of them on Implicature, Machine translation; often with Robert Dale.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

A Structured Review of the Validity of BLEU (2018)
The paper asks whether BLEU is a valid evaluation technique, meaning whether its scores correlate with the real-world usefulness or user satisfaction of NLP systems.
The Role of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions (1996)
Grice's maxims are usually read as directives to a speaker. This short paper argues that, for natural language generation, they are better read as post-hoc descriptions. A goal-driven generator, which adds information only when a goal calls for it and conforms to the conventions of the genre, behaves as the maxims…
Computational Interpretations of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions (1995)
The paper asks how to generate a definite noun phrase (the black dog) that identifies its referent without false implicatures.