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ICS Colloquium: Jim Davies and Jonathan Gagne
January 1, 1970
Cost: | Free |
Please join us on Thursday, October 8th from 11:35 to 12:35, Dunton 2203, for the first talk in our 2009-2010 Cognitive Science Colloquium series. You are welcome to bring your lunch.
Speakers: Dr. Jim Davies and Jonathan Gagne
Title: Visuo: A Model of Visuospatial Instantiation of Quantitative Magnitudes
Abstract: Visuo is an implemented Python program that models visual reasoning. It takes as input a description of a scene in words (e.g., “small dog on a sunny street”) and produces estimates of the quantitative magnitudes of the qualitative input (e.g., the size of the dog and the brightness of the street). We claim that reasoners transfer quantitative knowledge to new concepts from distributions of familiar concepts in memory. We also claim that visuospatial magnitudes should be stored as distributions over fuzzy sets. We show that Visuo successfully predicts quantitative knowledge to new concepts.