Modeling category intuitiveness

Pothos, E. M., Perlman, A., Edwards, D. J., Gureckis, T. M., Hines, P. M., & Chater, N. (2008). Modeling category intuitiveness. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.

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Abstract

We asked 169 participants to spontaneously categorize nine sets of items. A category structure was assumed to be more intuitive if a large number of participants consistently produced the same classification. Our results provide a rich empirical framework for examining models of unsupervised categorization and illustrate the corresponding profound modeling challenge. We provide a preliminary examination comparing two models of unsupervised categorization: SUSTAIN (Love, Medin, & Gureckis, 2004) and the simplicity model (Pothos & Chater, 2002).

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@inproceedings{pothos2008modeling,
	abstract = {We asked 169 participants to spontaneously categorize nine sets of items. A category structure was assumed to be more intuitive if a large number of participants consistently produced the same classification. Our results provide a rich empirical framework for examining models of unsupervised categorization and illustrate the corresponding profound modeling challenge. We provide a preliminary examination comparing two models of unsupervised categorization: SUSTAIN (Love, Medin, & Gureckis, 2004) and the simplicity model (Pothos & Chater, 2002).},
	address = {Austin, TX},
	author = {Pothos, E.M. and Perlman, A. and Edwards, D.J. and Gureckis, T.M. and Hines, P.M. and Chater, N.},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society},
	editor = {Love, B.C. and McRae, K. and Sloutsky, V.M.},
	publisher = {Cognitive Science Society},
	title = {Modeling category intuitiveness},
	year = {2008}}

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