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for g in stimuli["forced_choice"]:
        choice, rt = ask_multiple_choice(p, g, distractors=semantic_distractors(g))
        store_choice(p, g, choice, rt)

    for trial in stimuli["search"]:
        hit, rt = run_visual_search_trial(p, trial)
        store_search(p, trial, hit, rt)

coded = blind_code_free_responses(num_raters=3, codebook=CODEBOOK)
kappa = fleiss_kappa(coded)

fit_glmm_accuracy()
fit_lmm_log_rt()
report_confusion_matrix()
report_or_ci_effect_sizes()
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The key evaluation metrics should be split into **model-side** and **human-side** measures. Model-side metrics include Recall@\(k\),

\[
\mathrm{Recall@}k = \frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^{N}\mathbf 1\{\mathrm{rank}(m_i\mid g_i)\le k\},
\]

mean reciprocal rank,

\[
\mathrm{MRR} = \frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^{N}\frac{1}{\mathrm{rank}_i},
\]

mAP, FID, CLIP score, and geometry-validity metrics such as self-intersection rate or path validity. Human-side metrics include judged comprehensibility, forced-choice accuracy, search accuracy, and log-reaction time, all analyzed with participant and item random effects. DeepSVG, IconShop, CLIP/ALIGN, SVGformer, and ISO-style studies collectively motivate this split. citeturn25view2turn21view2turn5view2turn4view8turn26view0turn9view3

## Recommended readings, open questions, and ethics

The most valuable starting sources are the original papers and official standards or inventories, not speculative online discussions. The list below prioritizes sources that directly support replicable work. citeturn5view0turn9view3turn24view0turn19view0turn26view0turn5view2turn4view8turn5view1turn17search4turn17search5

| Reading | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Unicode Glossary | Precise rendering-level terminology for glyphs, emoji, and related objects. citeturn5view0turn18view4 |
| Semiotics overview and Peirce categories | Necessary conceptual distinction among sign, icon, index, and symbol. citeturn4view2turn4view1 |
| ISO 9186-1/2/3 | Primary standard for comprehensibility, perceptual quality, and referent association testing. citeturn9view3turn34search1turn34search0 |
| DeepSVG | Foundational vector-native hierarchical SVG generation. citeturn24view0turn25view2 |
| IconShop | Best primary example of text-guided SVG icon synthesis with edit support and user studies. citeturn19view0turn22view3 |
| CLIPDraw | Canonical optimization-based vector drawing under CLIP guidance. citeturn27search3 |
| VectorFusion | Diffusion-guided SVG optimization without paired SVG-text data. citeturn16search2turn16search6 |
| DeepVecFont | Strong adjacent case for vector glyph family synthesis from raster+vector fusion. citeturn35search0turn35search1 |
| CLIP | Core primary source for contrastive image-text alignment and zero-shot transfer. citeturn5view2 |
| ALIGN | Large-scale noisy contrastive alignment benchmark and architecture. citeturn4view8 |
| SVGformer | Best current primary source for vector-native representation learning. citeturn26view0turn16search1 |
| Glyce | Strongest glyph-aware semantic modeling paper in an actual writing system. citeturn5view1turn5view4turn5view5 |
| BLIP-2 | Useful backbone for glyph captioning or interpretation adapters. citeturn17search4 |
| PaLI | Useful multilingual multimodal backbone for glyph-description alignment. citeturn17search5 |
| Omniglot / EMNIST / Kuzushiji | Standard corpora for glyph structure, script diversity, and recognition baselines. citeturn18view6turn18view5turn18view7 |
| FIGR-8 / OpenMoji / Material Symbols | Practical symbol inventories and datasets for meaning-bearing glyph systems. citeturn29search0turn18view8turn7search1 |

The main open research questions are now fairly clear. The field still lacks a benchmark that jointly evaluates vector validity, semantic retrieval, human comprehensibility, cross-cultural robustness, and longitudinal learnability in one protocol. It also lacks a strong theory of **glyph compositionality** analogous to syntax in language, especially for abstract meanings that do not admit iconically transparent pictures. Another major gap is vector-native multimodal pretraining at CLIP scale: current large-scale multimodal models are mostly raster-first, while glyph systems often benefit from preserving exact geometry. Finally, the strongest conjectures in the uploaded notes about “semantic resonance” and spontaneous AI-native symbolic languages remain unvalidated as primary empirical findings; the field would benefit from controlled preregistered tests that compare those hypotheses against ordinary tokenization, prompt-delimitation, and embedding-alignment explanations. fileciteturn0file1 fileciteturn0file2 citeturn5view2turn4view8turn26view0turn13view0

The ethical considerations are immediate. Hidden or adversarial semantic channels undermine transparency, especially in safety-critical or public settings. Public symbols should therefore default to visible, human-auditable encodings; any non-obvious machine-only channel should be treated as a security issue and red-teamed. Cross-cultural testing is not optional because poorly grounded symbols can mislead users even when model metrics look strong. Registry versioning, ontology governance, calibration, and explicit abstention behavior are basic engineering requirements, not extras. Those conclusions follow both from recent symbol-comprehension research and from the practical lesson in the uploaded Protocol5 note: if meaning is not explicit somewhere in the system, it will not reliably survive conversion, retrieval, or deployment. fileciteturn0file2 citeturn9view3turn9view1turn13view0