“Look, some green circles!”: learning to quantify from images

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate whether a neural network model can learn the meaning of natural language quantifiers (no,some and all) from their use in visual contexts. We show that memory networks perform well in this task, and that explicit counting is not necessary to the system’s performance, supporting psycholinguistic evidence on the acquisition of quantifiers.

This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 655577 (LOVe); ERC 2011 Starting Independent Research Grant n. 283554 (COMPOSES).