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Research Fellow in Data Sciences at UCL 📖 💬 Multimodality, iconicity, metaphor, gesture, data science 🤏 🔢 #rstats #python #openscience 💻 🔓 https://www.gregwoodin.co.uk/ https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7x

Greg Woodin

FYI there is currently an issue with the Arabic in the article that I am trying to get updated.

New paper out. My favorite finding is the distributional semantic comparison of "hundred/thousand/million/billion etc." to indefinite hyperbolic numerals ("gazillion", "umpteen" etc.) ⬇️ And: Did you know that jigsaw puzzles are lying to you? 👀

Such a privilege to interview Kimi Akita for SKASE about his long career researching #ideophones! Kimi's conducted some of the most fascinating and insightful work in the field, which he continues to lead into exciting new directions. Ideophone enthusiasts, read here! www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL6...

Greg Woodin

1️⃣ We analysed corpus frequencies of numbers with different mathematical properties associated with roundness in the BNC and COCA, finding that people use round numbers more often, and round to a greater extent, at higher magnitudes. 👇 (2/5)

3️⃣ Did you know that jigsaw puzzles often do not have the exact number of pieces stated on the box? We compared real vs advertised piece counts in jigsaw puzzles, finding that the discrepancy in piece counts increases with magnitude, reflecting increased approximation. 👇 (4/5)

2️⃣ We compared the distributional semantics of numbers with indefinite hyperbolic numbers like 'gazillion' and 'umpteen', which lack a precise value, finding that larger round numbers like 'million' and 'billion' are used similarly to these fictitious numbers. 👇 (3/5)

We argue that these patterns reflect both the base-10 structure of the decimal system, and the increasing imprecision of the human approximate number system. In short: the bigger the number, the fuzzier its meaning becomes, both communicatively and cognitively. ✅ (5/5)

How precise are numbers? Our new article in Language and Cognition (with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social) finds that round numbers are used more approximately at higher magnitudes. (1/5) 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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