  We introduce a corpus of short texts in Mandarin, in which quantified
expressions figure prominently. We illustrate the significance of the corpus by
examining the hypothesis (known as Huang's "coolness" hypothesis) that speakers
of East Asian Languages tend to speak more briefly but less informatively than,
for example, speakers of West-European languages. The corpus results from an
elicitation experiment in which participants were asked to describe abstract
visual scenes. We compare the resulting corpus, called MQTUNA, with an English
corpus that was collected using the same experimental paradigm. The comparison
reveals that some, though not all, aspects of quantifier use support the
above-mentioned hypothesis. Implications of these findings for the generation
of quantified noun phrases are discussed.
