Word and Object

By W. Quine. 1960

Subfields: Natural Language Processing, Philosophy

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Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases (2016, background): “We demonstrate here for the first time what some have long suspected (Quine, 1960)—that semantics, the meaning of words, necessarily reflects regularities latent in our culture, some of which we now know to be prejudiced.”
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (2020, background): “Linguists distinguish communicative intent from conventional (or standing) meaning (Quine, 1960; Grice, 1968).”
Embodied BERT: A Transformer Model for Embodied, Language-guided Visual Task Completion (2021, background): “Task-oriented, instructional language focuses on objects and interactions between objects and actors, as seen in instructional datasets (Damen et al., 2020; Koupaee and Wang, 2018), as a function of the inextricable relationship between language and objects (Quine, 1960).”
Mindreading, Communication and the Learning of Names for Things (2002, unknown): “The whole object bias Once a child hears a new word and knows that it is used to refer to a given rabbit, how does he or she determine the precise meaning of the word? From a logical standpoint, there is an infinite number of possible meanings the word might have (Goodman, 1983; Quine, 1960 ).”
Inferring word meanings by assuming that speakers are informative (2014, unknown): “In Quine’s (1960) classic example, he considers an anthropologist who observes a white rabbit running by.”
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Research Article Using Speakers ’ Referential Intentions to Model Early Cross-Situational Word Learning (unknown): “Quine (1960) suggested an apt metaphor: A word learner is climbing the inside of a chimney, ‘‘supporting himself against each side by pressure against the others’’ (p.”
Language and theory of mind: What are the developmental relationships? (2000, background): “Unfortunately, it has been known for a hundred years now that the property doesn’t work in intentional contexts (Frege, 1892, Quine, 1960).”
The Meaning of ‘Most’: Semantics, Numerosity and Psychology (2009, background): “3 For discussion, see Wright (1983), Boolos (1998) , and the essays in Demopolous (1994).”
The semiotic hierarchy: life, consciousness, signs and language (2009, unknown): “If either p falls “outside” W, or its value for S is nil, p will be meaningless for S. (1) M (p, S) = W(p) * V(p, S)”