Tom Williams

Tom Williams has 2 papers in our library, in 2020, most of them on Text generation, English; often with Poulomi Pal.

2 papers in our library · 2020

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Givenness Hierarchy Theoretic Cognitive Status Filtering (2020 · 2 citations)
Robots that talk need to pick referring forms such as "it", "this" or "that NP" the way people do. The Givenness Hierarchy (GH) ties each form to the cognitive status a referent has for the listener: in focus, activated, familiar, and so on. Earlier full-GH systems by Williams and colleagues served understanding.…
Toward Givenness Hierarchy Theoretic Natural Language Generation (2020)
A robot that talks with people must choose between it, this N, that N and the N. The Givenness Hierarchy (GH) says that the form reflects the cognitive status a referent has in the hearer's mind: in focus, activated, familiar, uniquely identifiable, referential, type identifiable. Earlier work used GH data structures…

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Updated 24 October 2026