The use of redundant adjectives on object names (Master Thesis)
Published in Repositori UPF, 2019
Recommended citation: Liao, Xixian. (2019). "The use of redundant adjectives on object names." http://hdl.handle.net/10230/43320. 1(1). https://repositori.upf.edu/bitstream/handle/10230/43320/liao_2019.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Referring expressions play an important role in object identification. This study analyzes the use of redundant color adjectives (RCAs) in reference to different object categories in largescale datasets of real-world images in order to investigate how this phenomenon displays in real-world scenes and whether it is in line with the results reported in previous artificially designed experiments. It quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes two types of data: naturalistic object descriptions and genuine referring expressions. The results on one hand confirm that the use of RCAs varies across object categories in real-world scenes; on the other hand, they also suggest that the use of color adjectives varies depending on the task settings (descriptive task compared to referential task in this study); and people may produce more RCAs for some specific subcategories of objects.
Recommended citation: Liao, Xixian. (2019). “The use of redundant adjectives on object names(Master Thesis, supervised by Carina Silberer and Gemma Boleda)”.http://hdl.handle.net/10230/43320.