Research suggests that people minimize the amount of effort used to generate natural language descriptions of visual scenes. In the case of visual scenes with multiple groups, recent work has found that people tend to generate quantitative descriptions that mention the number and cardinality of groups (e.g., ``two groups of three limes''), but omit the total quantity (e.g., ``six limes''). This finding suggests that people groupitize, that is, they more quickly determine the number of grouped items by rapid enumeration of subgroups, rather than slower item-by-item counting. %This hypothesis predicts that during description, people exert less effort to encode and report only the number and cardinality of groups. 
A recent proposal predicts that during description, people exert less effort by encoding and reporting only information that is readily available to perception.
In previously studied description tasks, people may have omitted the total quantity from their descriptions because of considerations of brevity and informativity. In this paper, we describe a study designed to test how individuals balance effort, brevity, and informativity when evaluating quantified descriptions. The experiment was designed to elicit more fine-grained preferences for descriptions using direct comparisons between two competing descriptive forms. The results suggest that perceptual effort plays a central role in how people describe grouped collections of items.

Preferences in the quantified description of visual groups


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