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A test of indirect grounding of abstract concepts using multimodal distributional semantics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 How are abstract concepts grounded in perceptual experiences for shaping human conceptual knowledge? Recent studies on abstract concepts emphasizing the role of language have argued that abstract concepts are grounded indirectly in perceptual experiences
Akira Utsumi
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Distributional Measures of Semantic Abstraction [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022 This article provides an in-depth study of distributional measures for distinguishing between degrees ofsemantic abstraction. Abstraction is considered a “central construct in cognitive science” (Barsalou, 2003) and a “process of information reduction that allows for efficient storage and retrieval of central knowledge” (Burgoon et al., 2013).
Sabine Schulte im Walde +1 more
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Distributional Semantics in Use [PDF]
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linking Computational Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, 2015 In this position paper we argue that an adequate semantic model must account for language in use, taking into account how discourse context affects the meaning of words and larger linguistic units. Distributional semantic models are very attractive models of meaning mainly because they capture conceptual aspects and are automatically induced from ...
Bernardi, Raffaella +3 more
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Multimodal Distributional Semantics [PDF]
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2014 Distributional semantic models derive computational representations of word meaning from the patterns of co-occurrence of words in text. Such models have been a success story of computational linguistics, being able to provide reliable estimates of semantic relatedness for the many semantic tasks requiring them.
Bruni, Elia, Tram N., Baroni, Marco
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Combined Distributional and Logical Semantics [PDF]
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013 We introduce a new approach to semantics which combines the benefits of distributional and formal logical semantics. Distributional models have been successful in modelling the meanings of content words, but logical semantics is necessary to adequately represent many function words.
Mike Lewis, Mark Steedman
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Functional Distributional Semantics [PDF]
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, 2016 Published at Representation Learning for NLP workshop at ACL 2016, https://sites.google.com/site/repl4nlp2016/
Guy Emerson, Ann A. Copestake
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Composition in Distributional Models of Semantics [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2010 AbstractVector‐based models of word meaning have become increasingly popular in cognitive science. The appeal of these models lies in their ability to represent meaning simply by using distributional information under the assumption that words occurring within similar contexts are semantically similar.
Jeff Mitchell 0001, Mirella Lapata
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A Semantics for Distributed Execution of Statemate [PDF]
Formal Aspects of Computing, 2003 Abstract. We present a semantics for the statechart variant implemented in the Statemate product of i-Logix. Our semantics enables distributed code generation for Statemate models in the context of rapid prototyping for embedded control applications. We argue that it seems impossible to efficiently generate distributed code using the original
Martin Fränzle +3 more
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Incremental Composition in Distributional Semantics [PDF]
Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2021 AbstractDespite 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.
Matthew Purver +4 more
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Idiosyncratic frequency as a measure of derivation vs. inflection
Journal of Language Modelling, 2023 There is ongoing discussion about how to conceptualize the nature of the distinction between inflection and derivation. A common approach relies on qualitative differences in the semantic relationship between inflectionally versus derivationally related
Maria Copot +2 more
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