Lecture 18: redundancy in perceptual and linguistic experience

what’s the criticism of distributional models?

they rely only on linguistic inputs, they don’t consider more subjective aspects

what’s the difference between fast and slow processing?

• fast: speaking with someone, access distributional system to understand what the conversation is about

• slow: reading a book, grounded level which takes more energy

what’s the difference between purity and entropy?

• purity: extent to which a cluster contains one class

• entropy: extent to which a cluster contains other classes

true or false: there is an overlap between language and perception

true: langage is a reflection of perception as it is used to describe the world

how can distributional models infer perceptual representations?

by extracting grounded information