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Embodied Quantifiers

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New Directions in Logic, Language and Computation (ESSLLI 2010, ESSLLI 2011)

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This paper studies how quantificational expressions such as few, three and all can be grounded in real-world perception. Based on findings from psycholinguistics, we propose a computational model designed for use in robot-robot interaction scenarios which involve discrimination tasks for objects in the real world. We test the performance of our model and contrast it with a type theory based model. We show that our design choices make our model more suitable for real-world applications.

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  1. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Simon Pauw

  2. Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France

    Michael Spranger

  3. Systems Technology Laboratory, Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

    Michael Spranger

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  1. Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 420 Jordan Hall, 450 Serra Mall, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA

    Daniel Lassiter

  2. University of Luxembourg, 6, Rue Richard Coudenhove Kalergi, 1359, Luxembourg

    Marija Slavkovik

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Pauw, S., Spranger, M. (2012). Embodied Quantifiers. In: Lassiter, D., Slavkovik, M. (eds) New Directions in Logic, Language and Computation. ESSLLI ESSLLI 2010 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7415. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31467-4_4

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