Jakub Szymanik

Complexity/informativeness trade-off in the domain of indefinite pronouns

2021 · Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory

The vocabulary of human languages has been argued to support efficient communication by optimizing the trade-off between complexity and informativeness (Kemp & Regier 2012). The argument has been based on cross-linguistic analyses of vocabulary in …

Neural Networks Track the Logical Complexity of Boolean Concepts

2022 · Open Mind

The language of thought hypothesis and connectionism provide two main accounts of category acquisition in the cognitive sciences. However, it is unclear to what extent their predictions agree. In this article, we tackle this problem …