Any expression or a piece of language used in a utterance to refer to something or someone outside the language.

Example of referring expression. -She is studying Semantics. Some examples of our results. Indefinite noun phrases can be referring expressions.

This is called a referring expression. Go to the course web page. They are so cool.

Theres no Fred at this address the speaker would not have a particular person in mind Fred is not a referring expression. How to mention it afterwards here this jewel it etc. Refers to all those large strong flash-eating animals.

Names like Richard and Barbara are definite and specific as referring expressions even though there are numerous people so named just as there are numerous babies reports and doctors. -A girl who wore a black sweater is friendly. Expressions like the baby and Richard have unique status within a certain group of.

It is a Ford. The target object isshown in contour. I have a particular person in my mind when I say Belal is a referring expression.

The linguistics and natural language processing communities have developed various models for predicting anaphor referents such as centering theory and ideally referring-expression generation would be based on such models. -Some apples are bought by my grandmother. Background Information A survey paper draft on Generation of Referring Expressions which Im writing with Emiel Krahmer University of Tilburg.