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cs.CL2023
Learning the meanings of function words from grounded language using a visual question answering model
Eva Portelance, Michael C. Frank, Dan Jurafsky
Interpreting a seemingly-simple function word like "or", "behind", or "more" can require logical, numerical, and relational reasoning. How are such words learned by children? Prior…
cs.CL2021
The Emergence of the Shape Bias Results from Communicative Efficiency
Eva Portelance, Michael C. Frank, Dan Jurafsky +2
By the age of two, children tend to assume that new word categories are based on objects' shape, rather than their color or texture; this assumption is called the shape bias. They…