{"id":2498,"date":"2011-03-28T05:04:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T09:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2011-03-27T19:41:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T23:41:42","slug":"bcs-cog-lunch-329-steve-piantadosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/03\/28\/bcs-cog-lunch-329-steve-piantadosi\/","title":{"rendered":"BCS Cog Lunch 3\/29 - Steve Piantadosi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Speaker: Steve Piantadosi (Gibson lab)<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: What is the language of thought?<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Tues 3\/29, 12pm<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 46-3310 (note the change from our usual location)<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P>We present a computational model of learning compositional, structured<br clear='none'\/>\nconcepts in a &#8220;language of thought.&#8221; We show that language of thought<br clear='none'\/>\nmodels out-perform alternatives such as exemplar models in capturing<br clear='none'\/>\npeople&#8217;s patterns of generalization in a massive, online,<br clear='none'\/>\nconcept-learning experiment. We additionally develop a method for<br clear='none'\/>\nformally evaluating different representation languages using the<br clear='none'\/>\nexperimental results. We compare 9 different representation languages<br clear='none'\/>\nfor simple boolean concepts, and 12 for languages for concepts that move<br clear='none'\/>\nbeyond boolean logic, towards the types of representations necessary for<br clear='none'\/>\nnatural language semantics.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Steve Piantadosi (Gibson lab) Title: What is the language of thought? Time: Tues 3\/29, 12pm Location: 46-3310 (note the change from our usual location) We present a computational model of learning compositional, structured concepts in a &#8220;language of thought.&#8221; We show that language of thought models out-perform alternatives such as exemplar models in capturing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}