{"id":4263,"date":"2021-01-27T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2021-05-11T08:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T06:25:45","slug":"lira-session-nina-gierasimczuk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/2021\/01\/lira-session-nina-gierasimczuk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LIRa Session: Nina Gierasimczuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninagierasimczuk.com\/\">Nina Gierasimczuk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date and Time: Thursday, May&nbsp;20th 2021, 16:30-18:00, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/time\/zone\/netherlands\/amsterdam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amsterdam time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Venue: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/guidelines-for-online-sessions\/\">online<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: Multi-agent language coordination and cognitive semantics of quantity terms<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Abstract.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Natural languages vary in their quantity expressions, but the variation seems to be constrained by general properties, so-called universals. Explanations thereof have been sought among constraints of human cognition, communication, complexity, and pragmatics. In this work, we examine whether the \u00a0perceptual constraints of approximate number sense (ANS) contribute to \u00a0the \u00a0development \u00a0of \u00a0two \u00a0universals \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0semantic \u00a0domain \u00a0of \u00a0quantities: monotonicity and convexity. Using a state-of-the-art multi-agent language coordination model (originally applied to colour terms) we evolve communicatively \u00a0usable \u00a0quantity \u00a0terminologies. We compare the degrees of convexity and monotonicity of languages evolvingin populations of agents with and without ANS. The results suggest that ANS supports the development of monotonicity and, to a lesser extent, convexity. This is a joint work with Dariusz Kaloci\u0144ski (University of Warsaw), Franciszek Rakowski (Samsung Research &amp; Development Institute Poland) and Jakub Uszy\u0144ski (National Information Processing Institute, Poland). It was generously supported by N.G.\u2019s National Science Centre Poland grant no. 2015\/19\/B\/HS1\/03292.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Nina Gierasimczuk<br \/>\nDate and Time: Thursday, May&nbsp;20th 2021, 16:30-18:00, Amsterdam time.<br \/>\nVenue: online.<br \/>\nTitle: Multi-agent language coordination and cognitive semantics of quantity terms<\/p>\n<p>Abstract.\u00a0<br \/>\nNatural languages vary in their quantity expressions, but the variation seems to be constrained by general properties, so-called universals. Explanations thereof have been sought among constraints of human cognition, communication, complexity, and pragmatics. In this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}