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Incremental Composition in Distributional Semantics
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
Incremental Composition in Distributional Semantics
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
Distributional Sentence Entailment Using Density Matrices
Categorical compositional distributional model of Coecke et al. (2010)
suggests a way to combine grammatical composition of the formal, type logical
models with the corpus based, empirical word representations of distributional
semantics. This paper contributes to the project by expanding the model to also
capture entailment relations. This is achieved by extending the representations
of words from points in meaning space to density operators, which are
probability distributions on the subspaces of the space. A symmetric measure of
similarity and an asymmetric measure of entailment is defined, where lexical
entailment is measured using von Neumann entropy, the quantum variant of
Kullback-Leibler divergence. Lexical entailment, combined with the composition
map on word representations, provides a method to obtain entailment relations
on the level of sentences. Truth theoretic and corpus-based examples are
provided.Comment: 11 page
"Not not bad" is not "bad": A distributional account of negation
With the increasing empirical success of distributional models of
compositional semantics, it is timely to consider the types of textual logic
that such models are capable of capturing. In this paper, we address
shortcomings in the ability of current models to capture logical operations
such as negation. As a solution we propose a tripartite formulation for a
continuous vector space representation of semantics and subsequently use this
representation to develop a formal compositional notion of negation within such
models.Comment: 9 pages, to appear in Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Continuous
Vector Space Models and their Compositionalit
Aligning packed dependency trees: a theory of composition for distributional semantics
We present a new framework for compositional distributional semantics in which the distributional contexts of lexemes are expressed in terms of anchored packed dependency trees. We show that these structures have the potential to capture the full sentential contexts of a lexeme and provide a uniform basis for the composition of distributional knowledge in a way that captures both mutual disambiguation and generalization
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