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Bears, all bears, and some bears. Language Constraints on Language Models’ Inductive Inferences
Sriram Padmanabhan · Siyuan Song · Kanishka Misra
摘要
Language places subtle constraints on how we make inductive inferences. Developmental evidence by Gelman et al. (2002) has shown children (4 years and older) to differentiate among generic statements (“Bears are daxable”), universally quantified NPs (“all bears are daxable”) and indefinite plural...