MultilingualShapeworld

Multilingual Shapeworld

The language file for the ERG (trunk version) can be found here. Below an incomplete list of words and constructions which another language would ideally provide. Note that not all of the entries are required for every data generator.

Attributes:

• shape, square, rectangle, triangle, pentagon, cross, circle, semicircle, ellipse
• red, green, blue, yellow, magenta, cyan, white

Relations:

• left, right, above, below, behind, front
• leftmost, rightmost, topmost, lowest
• closer, farther, closest, farthest
• smaller, bigger, smallest, biggest
• darker, lighter, darkest, lightest

Quantifier (others possible here):

• existential (e.g., "shape is green")

• a, two, three, four, five (semantics: >=)

• exactly one/two/three/four/five (semantics: ==)

• the, both, the three, the four, the five (semantics: == and no others)

• no, half, most, all

Constructions (incomplete):

• attribute to relation (e.g., "square" --> "is a square")

• relation to attribute (e.g., "is above a square" --> "which is above a square")

More to come...