Grounding Linguistic Quantifiers in Perception: Experiments on Numerosity Judgments
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The paper presents a new computational model for the grounding of numerosity judgments and of the use of linguistic quantifiers. The model consists of a hybrid, artificial vision-connectionist architecture. Preliminary simulation experiments show that the part of the model trained to judge “psychological number” uses some of the same factors known to play a major role in the production of quantification judgments in human subjects. This supports the ongoing development of a psychologically-plausible model of linguistic quantifiers which uses the contextual factors such as object properties and their functionality.
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