Individuation, reliability, and the mass/count distinction

Counting in natural language presupposes that we can successfully identify what counts as one, which, as we argue, relies on how and whether one can balance two pressures on learning nominal predicates, which we formalise in probabilistic and information theoretic terms: individuation (establishing...

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Main Authors: Peter R. Sutton, Hana Filip
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences 2017-11-01
Series:Journal of Language Modelling
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Online Access:https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/144