In this talk, I will detail some previous work on how people refer to everyday objects in real world settings, and discuss how to model this in a generation system that produces humanlike descriptions. This talk will tie in aspects of linguistics, cognitive science, and statistical natural language processing.
Margaret Mitchell received her Master's from the University of Washington's CLMA program and her PhD at the University of Aberdeen. She also spent several years at Oregon Health and Science University as a visiting scholar. Her research has recently focused on connecting vision to language.