Draw Me a Flower: Processing and Grounding Abstraction in Natural Language. (arXiv:2106.14321v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

Abstraction is a core tenet of human cognition and communication. When
composing natural language instructions, humans naturally evoke abstraction to
convey complex procedures in an efficient and concise way. Yet, interpreting
and grounding abstraction expressed in NL has not yet been systematically
studied in NLP, with no accepted benchmarks specifically eliciting abstraction
in NL. In this work, we set the foundation for a systematic study of processing
and grounding abstraction in NLP. First, we deliver a novel abstraction
elicitation method …

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