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  <Title>What's There to Talk About? A Multi-Modal Model of Referring Behavior in the Presence of Shared Visual Information</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes the development of a rule-based computational model that describes how a feature-based representation of shared visual information combines with linguistic cues to enable effective reference resolution. This work explores a language-only model, a visual-only model, and an integrated model of reference resolution and applies them to a corpus of transcribed task-oriented spoken dialogues. Preliminary results from a corpus-based analysis suggest that integrating information from a shared visual environment can improve the performance and quality of existing discourse-based models of reference resolution.</Paragraph>
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