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Incremental Composition in Distributional Semantics
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Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh ,
Ruth Kempson ,
Gijs Wijnholds,
Julian Hough
Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 379 - 406
Swansea University Author:
Julian Hough
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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s10849-021-09337-8
Abstract
Despite the incremental nature of Dynamic Syntax (DS), the semantic grounding of it remains that of predicate logic, itself grounded in set theory, so is poorly suited to expressing the rampantly context-relative nature of word meaning, and related phenomena such as incremental judgements of similar...
| Published in: | Journal of Logic, Language and Information |
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| ISSN: | 0925-8531 1572-9583 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64926 |
| Abstract: |
Despite the incremental nature of Dynamic Syntax (DS), the semantic grounding of it remains that of predicate logic, itself grounded in set theory, so is poorly suited to expressing the rampantly context-relative nature of word meaning, and related phenomena such as incremental judgements of similarity needed for the modelling of disambiguation. Here, we show how DS can be assigned a compositional distributional semantics which enables such judgements and makes it possible to incrementally disambiguate language constructs using vector space semantics. Building on a proposal in our previous work, we implement and evaluate our model on real data, showing that it outperforms a commonly used additive baseline. In conclusion, we argue that these results set the ground for an account of the non-determinism of lexical content, in which the nature of word meaning is its dependence on surrounding context for its construal. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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2 |
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379 |
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406 |