Generation of Quantified Referring Expressions: Evidence from Experimental Data
Dale J. Barr, Kees van Deemter, Raquel Fernández · 2013
We present the results from an elicitation experiment in which human speakers were asked to produced quantified referring expressions (QREs), as in ‘The crate with 10 apples’, ‘The crate with many apples’, etc. These results suggest that some subtle contextual factors govern the choice between different types of QREs, and that numerals are highly preferred for subitizable quantities despite the availability of coarser-grained expressions. 1