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| "abstract": "We present a formal account of the meaning of vague scalar adjectives such as 'tall' formulated in Type Theory with Records. Our approach makes precise how perceptual information can be integrated into the meaning representation of these predicates; how an agent evaluates whether an entity counts as tall; and how the proposed semantics can be learned and dynamically updated through experience.", |
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| "text": "We present a formal account of the meaning of vague scalar adjectives such as 'tall' formulated in Type Theory with Records. Our approach makes precise how perceptual information can be integrated into the meaning representation of these predicates; how an agent evaluates whether an entity counts as tall; and how the proposed semantics can be learned and dynamically updated through experience.", |
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| "text": "Traditional semantic theories such as those described in Partee (1989) and Blackburn and Bos (2005) offer precise accounts of the truthconditional content of linguistic expressions, but do not deal with the connection between meaning, perception and learning. One can argue, however, that part of getting to know the meaning of linguistic expressions consists in learning to identify the individuals or the situations that the expressions can describe. For many concrete words and phrases, this identification relies on perceptual information. In this paper, we focus on characterising the meaning of vague scalar adjectives such as 'tall', 'dark', or 'heavy'. We propose a formal account that brings together notions from traditional formal semanticswith perceptual information, which allows us to specify how a logic-based interpretation function is determined and modified dynamically by experience.", |
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| "text": "The need to integrate language and perception has been emphasised by researchers working on the generation and resolution of referring This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. Page numbers and proceedings footer are added by the organisers. Licence details: http: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ expressions (Kelleher et al., 2005; Reiter et al., 2005; Portet et al., 2009) and, perhaps even more strongly, on the field of robotics, where grounding language on perceptual information is critical to allow artificial agents to autonomously acquire and verify beliefs about the world (Siskind, 2001; Steels, 2003; Roy, 2005; Skocaj et al., 2010) . Most of these approaches, however, do not build on theories of formal semantics for natural language. Here we choose to formalise our account in a theoretical framework known as Type Theory with Records (TTR), which has been shown to be suitable for formalising classic semantic aspects such as intensionality, quantification, and negation (Cooper, 2005a; Cooper, 2010; Cooper and Ginzburg, 2011) as well as less standard phenomena such as linguistic interaction (Ginzburg, 2012; Purver et al., 2014) , perception and action (Dobnik et al., 2013) , and semantic coordination and learning (Larsson, 2009) . In this paper we use TTR to put forward an account of the semantics of vague scalar predicates like 'tall' that makes precise how perceptual information can be integrated into their meaning representation; how an agent evaluates whether an entity counts as tall; and how the proposed semantics for these expressions can be learned and dynamically updated through language use.", |
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| "text": "We start by giving a brief overview of TTR and explaining how it can be used for classifying entities as being of particular types integrating perceptual information. After that, in Section 3, we describe the main properties of vague scalar predicates. Section 4 presents a probabilistic TTR formalisation of the meaning of 'tall', which captures its context-dependence and its vague character. In Section 5, we then offer an account of how that meaning representation is acquired and updated with experience. Finally, in Section 6 we discuss related work, before concluding in Section 7.", |
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| "text": "As in any type theory, the most central notion in TTR is that of a judgement that an object a is of type T , written as a : T . In TTR judgements are seen as fundamentally related to perception, in the sense that perceiving inherently involves categorising what we perceive. Some common basic types in TTR are Ind (the type of individuals) and R + (the type of positive real numbers). All basic types are members of a special type Type. Given types T 1 and T 2 , we can create the function type T 1 \u2192 T 2 whose domain are objects of type T 1 and whose range are objects of type T 2 . Types can also be constructed from predicates and objects P (a 1 , . . . , a n ). Such types are called ptypes and correspond roughly to propositions in first order logic. In TTR, propositions are types of proofs, where proofs can be a variety of things, from situations to sensor readings (more on this below).", |
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| "text": "Record r in (1b) is of the record type in (1a) if and only if a 1 : T 1 , a 2 : T 2 (a 1 ), . . . , and a n : T n (a 1 , a 2 , . . . , a n\u22121 ). Note that the record may contain more fields but would still be of type (1a) if the typing condition holds. Records and record types can be nested so that the value of a label is itself a record (or record type). We can use paths within a record or record type to refer to specific bits of structure: for instance, we can use r. 2 to refer to a 2 in (1b).", |
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| "text": "Scalar predicates such as 'tall', 'long' and 'expensive', also called \"relative gradable adjectives\" (Kennedy, 2007) , are interpreted with respect to a scale, i.e., a dimension such as height, length, or cost along which entities for which the relevant dimension is applicable can be ordered. This makes scalar predicates compatible with degree morphology, like comparative and superlative morphemes ('taller than', 'the longest') and intensifier morphemes such as 'very' or 'quite'. In this paper, our focus is on the so-called positive form of these adjectives (e.g. 'tall' as opposed to 'taller' or 'tallest').", |
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| "text": "Simplifying somewhat, we can represent the meaning of 'tall', tall, as a record specifying the type of context (T ctxt ) where an utterance of 'tall' can be made, the parameter of the tallness classifier (the threshold \u03b8), and a function f which is applied to the context to produce the content of 'tall'.", |
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| "text": "Since we take the noisy threshold to be a normal random variable, given a particular \u00b5 and \u03c3, we can calculate the probability that the height r.h of individual r.x counts as tall as follows:", |
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| "text": "Within the computational semantics literature, DeVault and Stone (2004) describe an implemented system in a drawing domain that is able to interpret and execute instructions including vague scalar predicates such as 'Make a small circle'. Their approach makes use of degree-based semantics, but does not take into account comparison classes. This is possible in their drawing domain since the kind of geometric figures it includes (squares, rectangles, circles) do not have intrinsic expected properties (size, length, etc). Their focus is on modelling how the threshold for a predicate such as 'small' is updated during an interaction with the system given the local discourse context. For instance, if the initial context just contains a square, the size of that square is taken to be the standard of comparison for the predicate 'small'. The user's utterance 'Make a small circle' is then interpreted as asking for a circle of an arbitrary size that is smaller than the square.", |
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| "text": "Traditional formal semantics theories postulate a fixed, abstract interpretation function that mediates between natural language expressions and the world, but fall short of specifying how this function is determined or modified dynamically by experience. In this paper we have presented a characterisation of the semantics of vague scalar predicates such as 'tall' that clarifies how their context-dependent meaning and their vague character are connected with perceptual information, and we have also shown how this low-level perceptual information (here, real-valued readings from a height sensor) connects to high level logical semantics (ptypes) in a probabilistic framework. In addition, we have put forward a proposal for explaining how the meaning of vague scalar adjectives like 'tall' is dynamically updated through language use.", |
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| "text": "Tallness is a function of a single value (height), and is in this sense a uni-dimensional predicate. Indeed, most linguistic approaches to vagueness focus on uni-dimensional predicates such as 'tall'. However, many vague predicates are multi-dimensional, including nouns for positions ('above'), shapes ('hexagonal'), and colours ('green'), amongst many others. Together with compositionality (mentioned at the end of Section 4.2), generalisation of the present account to multi-dimensional vague predicates is an interesting area of future development.", |
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| "text": "We are here assuming that we have a definition of dot product for TTR vectors a:RealVectorn and b:RealVectorn such that a \u2022 b = \u03a3 n i=1 aibi = a1b1 + a2b2 + . . . + anbn. We also implicitly assume that the weight vector and the sensor reading vector have the same dimensionality.", |
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| "text": "Which noise function may be the most appropriate is an empirical question we do not tackle in this paper. Our choice of Gaussian noise followsSchmidt et al. (2009)-see Section 5.1.", |
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| "text": "The first author acknowledges the support of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and thanks the Centre for Language Technology at the University of Gothenburg for generously funding research visits that led to the work presented in this paper. The second author acknowledges the support of Vetenskapsr\u00e5det, project 2009-1569, Semantic analysis of interaction and coordination in dialogue (SAICD); the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science; and the Centre for Language Technology at the University of Gothenburg.", |
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