Language strategies for the domain of colour
Joris Bleys
Language strategies for the domain of colour
Free
Description
Contents
Reviews

This book presents a major leap forward in the understanding of colour by showing how richer descriptions of colour samples can be operationalized in agent-based models. Four different language strategies are explored: the basic colour strategy, the graded membership strategy, the category combination strategy and the basic modification strategy. These strategies are firmly rooted in empirical observations in natural languages, with a focus on compositionality at both the syntactic and semantic level. Through a series of in-depth experiments, this book discerns the impact of the environment, language and embodiment on the formation of basic colour systems. Finally, the experiments demonstrate how language users can invent their own language strategies of increasing complexity by combining primitive cognitive operators, and how these strategies can be aligned between language users through linguistic interactions.

Language
English
ISBN
978-3-946234-16-6
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Language systems and language strategies
Language strategies for colour
Basic colour strategy
Graded membership strategy
Compounding strategy
Basic modification strategy
Other strategies
Modelling language strategies and linguistic interaction
Language games for colour
Background assumptions
Self-organisation of language systems
Modelling the self-organisation of language systems
Evolution of language strategies
Modelling evolution of language strategies
Structure of this book
Formalisms for language systems and language strategies
Embodied cognitive semantics using IRL
Theoretical foundations
Semantic constraint network
Evaluation
Conceptualisation and chunking
Implementation of a primitive
Construction Grammar using FCG
Theoretical foundations
Language processing
Coupled feature structures
Application of a construction
Structure building
Linking through variable equalities
Application of an example construction
Language strategies for colour
Basic colour strategy
Related research
Colour categories
Models
Semantic template
Profiling
Categorisation based on colour
Selection based on activation
Semantic constraint network
Semantic primitives
Syntactic templates
Syntactic template 1.1: Semantic entities
Syntactic template 1.2: Functional primitives
Syntactic template 1.3: Contextual primitives
Baseline experiment
Measures of communicative success
Results
Conclusion
Graded membership strategy
Related research
Semantic template
Profiling and categorisation based on colour
Categorisation based on membership
Selection based on activation
Semantic constraint network
Semantic primitives
Alternative approaches to semantics
Syntactic templates
Syntactic template 1.1: Semantic entities
Syntactic template 1.2: Functional primitives
Syntactic template 2.1: Re-use of constructions
Baseline experiment
Conclusion
Category combination strategy
Related research
Semantic template
Profiling and first categorisation based on colour
Transformation of the set of colour categories
Second categorisation based on colour
Optional categorisation based on membership
Selection based on activation
Semantic constraint network
Semantic primitives
Alternative approaches to semantics
Syntactic templates
Syntactic template 1.1: Semantic entities
Syntactic template 1.2: Functional primitives
Syntactic template 1.3: Contextual primitives
Syntactic template 2.2: Re-use of constructions
Baseline experiment
Conclusion
Basic modification strategy
Related research
Semantic template
Profiling and first categorisation based on colour
Transformation of set of modifying categories
Second categorisation based on modifiers
Optional categorisation based on membership
Selection based on activation
Semantic constraint network
Semantic primitives
Syntactic templates
Baseline Experiment
Conclusion
Self-organisation of language systems
Basic colour strategy
Related models
Adoption and alignment operators
Acquisition experiment
Measures
Number of categories
Interpretation variance
Results
Invention operator
Formation experiment
Results
Brightness and hue strategy
Brightness strategy
Conclusion
Graded membership strategy
Adoption and alignment operators
Acquisition experiment
Measures: Membership category variance
Results
Invention operator
Formation experiment
Measures: Number of membership categories
Results
Conclusion
Further experiments on basic colour systems
Impact of environment on similarity to natural systems
Data sets
Extracting colour categories
Comparison to human colour categories
Conclusion
Impact of language on universal trends
Discrimination game
Alignment within one population
Alignment over different populations
Conclusion
Impact of embodiment on performance of operators
Robotic setup and visual perception
Perceptual deviation and structure in embodied data
Discerning the impact of embodiment
Resulting dynamics
Comparison to human categories
Conclusion
General conclusion
Evolution and origins of language strategies
Linguistic selection of language strategies
Language strategies
Strategy selection
Experiment on linguistic selection
Measures
Strategy success
Strategy usage
Strategy coherence
Results
Selective advantage
Experiment
Results
Conclusion
Origins of language strategies
Generation of semantic templates
Repair strategies
Construction of a syntactic category system
Starting from scratch
Substituting a primitive constraint
Adding a primitive constraint
Implementaton of repair strategies
Repair strategy 1.1: Semantic entities
Repair strategy 1.2: Functional primitives
Repair strategy 1.3: Contextual primitives
Re-use of syntactic categories
Repair strategy 2.1: Re-use of constructions
Experimental results
Conclusion
Conclusion
Discussion and conclusion
Contributions
Identification of language strategies
Operationalisation of language strategies
Self-organisation of language systems
Evolution of language strategies
Compositional semantics and language
Discussion
Tractability
Compositionality
Flexiblity
Generality
Related models and approaches
Models of colour naming
Fuzzy sets
Conceptual spaces
Vantage theory
Possible applications
Future work
Colour spaces and systems
CIE 1931 XYZ colour space
Illuminants and chromatic adaptation
Chromaticity diagrams and CIE xyY colour space
CIE 1976 L*a*b*
CIE 1976 L*u*v*
Munsell colour system
Development
Conversion
Natural Color System
RGB
YCbCr
References
Index
Name index
Subject index
The book hasn't received reviews yet.