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We present the Cards corpus of task-oriented dialogues and show how it can inform study of the ways in which discourse is goal- and preference-driven. We report on three experimental studies involving underspecified referential expressions and quantifier domain restriction.
We are indebted to Karl Schultz for designing the game engine underlying the Cards corpus. This research was supported in part by ONR grant No. N00014-10-1-0109 and ARO grant No. W911NF-07-1-0216.
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Djalali, A., Lauer, S., Potts, C. (2012). Corpus Evidence for Preference-Driven Interpretation. In: Aloni, M., Kimmelman, V., Roelofsen, F., Sassoon, G.W., Schulz, K., Westera, M. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_16
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