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referent  

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Example

  • By being anchored in spatio-temporal dimensions events represent the most frequent referent of verbal elements. (Lee, Recasens, Chang, Surdeanu & Jurafsky, 2012)
  • In first language acquisition training of perceptual meanings typically takes place in situations where the referent is in the shared focus of attention and thus perceivable to the dialogue participants. (Larsson, 2020)
  • Learning new words involves inferring what the referents are in addition to learning a mapping from these inferred referents to linguistic conventions. (Portelance, Frank, Jurafsky, Sordoni & Laroche, 2021)
  • That is the set must include the referents of the man and the woman in order for the sentence to be felicitously uttered. (Chung, 1996)
  • Uniqueness is the proportion of attribute sets generated by a system which identify the referent uniquely (i.e. none of the distractors). (Belz & Gatt, 2008)

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