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Quantifying and extending the coverage of spatial categorization data sets
Wanchun Li, Alexandra Carstensen, Yang Xu +2
Variation in spatial categorization across languages is often studied by eliciting human labels for the relations depicted in a set of scenes known as the Topological Relations Pic…
American Sign Language Handshapes Reflect Pressures for Communicative Efficiency
Kayo Yin, Terry Regier, Dan Klein
Communicative efficiency is a key topic in linguistics and cognitive psychology, with many studies demonstrating how the pressure to communicate with minimal effort guides the form…
Cultural evolution via iterated learning and communication explains efficient color naming systems
Emil Carlsson, Devdatt Dubhashi, Terry Regier
It has been argued that semantic systems reflect pressure for efficiency, and a current debate concerns the cultural evolutionary process that produces this pattern. We consider ef…
Does BERT agree? Evaluating knowledge of structure dependence through agreement relations
Geoff Bacon, Terry Regier
Learning representations that accurately model semantics is an important goal of natural language processing research. Many semantic phenomena depend on syntactic structure. Recent…
Semantic categories of artifacts and animals reflect efficient coding
Noga Zaslavsky, Terry Regier, Naftali Tishby +1
It has been argued that semantic categories across languages reflect pressure for efficient communication. Recently, this idea has been cast in terms of a general information-theor…
Efficient human-like semantic representations via the Information Bottleneck principle
Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Terry Regier +1
Maintaining efficient semantic representations of the environment is a major challenge both for humans and for machines. While human languages represent useful solutions to this pr…
Color naming reflects both perceptual structure and communicative need
Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby +1
Gibson et al. (2017) argued that color naming is shaped by patterns of communicative need. In support of this claim, they showed that color naming systems across languages support…