jvparidon / principled-vs-statistical

Principled versus statistical generics

This repository contains the stimuli, data, and analysis for a project examining the differences between generics that have a principled relationship between a concept and its property (e.g. circles are round) and generics that have a statistical relationship (e.g. cars have radios), a relationship that is generally true but not necessarily true of each instance.

The repository is organized as follows:

• rating_study_generate_trials.ipynb: notebook for generating trial lists used in the rating study
• rating_study_data_cleaning.ipynb: notebook for cleaning and aggregating raw rating data
• rating_study_data_analysis.ipynb: notebooks with data analysis for rating data, including cloze probabilities and cosine distances from ALBERT (a large transformer model) and mixed-effects models analyzing relationships between various ratings and types of generics
• data/: data files
• figures/: figures generated by rating_study_data_analysis.ipynb
• trials/: trials generated by rating_study_generate_trials.ipynb
• papers/: PDF copies of the Prasada et al. papers that some of the stimuli were taken from