@inproceedings{bf7dab984d3e4f84ac138661831ea8ae,
title = "Close = relevant? The role of context in efficient language production",
abstract = "We formally derive a mathematical model for evaluating the effect of context relevance in language production. The model is based on the principle that distant contextual cues tend to gradually lose their relevance for predicting upcoming linguistic signals. We evaluate our model against a hypothesis of efficient communication (Genzel and Charniak's Constant Entropy Rate hypothesis). We show that the development of entropy throughout discourses is described significantly better by a model with cue relevance decay than by previous models that do not consider context effects.",
author = "Ting Qian and Jaeger, {T. Florian}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2010 Association for Computational Linguistics; 2010 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, CMCL 2010 at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2010 ; Conference date: 15-07-2010",
year = "2010",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "45--53",
editor = "Hale, {John T.}",
booktitle = "CMCL 2010 - 2010 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2010 - Proceedings of the Workshop",
}