Generating 'Distributed' Referring Expressions: an Initial Report

• Di Eugenio and Penstein Ros6 were partially supported by Carnegie Mellon Faculty Development Fund # 1-13709. LIn the appropriate context, (la) could also be interpreted as asking H to bring the ironing board into the basement, where S is (or will be, at the time H executes the action). We currently neglect this possibility. down to the basement is a substep in the plan that achieves bring S the ironing board. In these examples, the referring expression in the NP is not sufficient to uniquely identify the intended referent, but it is its linguistic context that adds other necessary constraints. This is the reason why we call these referring expressions distributed. To our knowledge, while many researchers have worked on generating referring expressions, e.g. [Appelt, 1985], [Kronfeld, 1990], [Dale, 1992], [Pattabhiraman and Cercone, 1990], 2 distributed referring expressions have not been addressed yet. Note that the whole linguistic context must be taken into account while generating (lc): this is shown by the redundant and infelicitous