6th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
Publication year
2018
Pages
419-430
ISBN
2721
Abstract
The present work investigates whether different quantification mechanisms (set comparison, vague quantification, and proportional estimation) can be jointly learned from visual scenes by a multi-task computational model. The motivation is that, in humans, these processes underlie the same cognitive, nonsymbolic ability, which allows an automatic estimation and comparison of set magnitudes. We show that when information about lowercomplexity tasks is available, the higher-level proportional task becomes more accurate than when performed in isolation. Moreover, the multi-task model is able to generalize to unseen combinations of target/non-target objects. Consistently with behavioral evidence showing the interference of absolute number in the proportional task, the multi-task model no longer works when asked to provide the number of target objects in the scene.
Complete citation
Sorodoc, I T; Pezzelle, S; Bernardi, R. Comparatives, Quantifiers, Proportions: A Multi-Task Model for the Learning of
Quantities from Vision. In: VV.AA. 6th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). 1 ed. 2018. p. 419-430.
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