Comparing Listener Gaze with Predictions of an Incremental Reference Resolution Model
Casey Kennington, David Schlangen · PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) · 2014
In situated dialogue, listeners resolve referring expressions incrementally and their gaze often attends to the described objects in the context.We have looked at how listener gaze compares to a statistical reference resolution model that works incrementally.We found that listeners gaze at referred objects even before a referring expression begins, suggesting that salience and prior information is important in reference resolution models.