September 7, 2018
Terry Regier and visiting graduate student Noga Zaslavsky (together with their colleagues) have two new papers out this summer:
- Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Terry Regier, and Naftali Tishby (2018). Efficient compression in color naming and its evolution. PNAS. [This paper has an associated movie!]
- Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby, and Terry Regier (2018). Color naming reflects both perceptual structure and communicative need.In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
The paper Color naming reflects both perceptual structure and communicative need received the conference prize for best paper on computational modeling of language. Congrats, Noga and Terry!