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Title:
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Intensionality was only alleged: on adjective-noun composition in distributional semantics
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Author:
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Boleda, Gemma; Baroni, Marco; Pham, Nghia The; McNally, Louise, 1965-
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Abstract:
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Distributional semantics has very successfully modeled semantic phenomena at the word level, and recently interest has grown in extending it to capture the meaning of phrases via semantic composition. We present experiments in adjective-noun composition which (1) show that adjectival modification can be successfully modeled with distributional semantics, (2) show that composition models inspired by the semantics of higher-order predication fare better than those that perform simple feature union or intersection, (3) contrary to what the theoretical literature might lead one to expect, do not yield a distinction between intensional and non-intensional modification, and (4) suggest that head noun polysemy and whether the adjective corresponds to a typical attribute of the noun are relevant factors in the distributional representation of adjective phrases. |
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We acknowledge the support of Spanish MICINN grant FFI2010-09464-E (McNally, Boleda), the ICREA Foundation (McNally), Catalan AGAUR grant 2010BP-A00070, MICINN grant TIN2009-14715-C04-04, EU grant PASCAL2, FP7-ICT-216886, the DARPA DEFT program under AFRL grant FA8750-13-2-0026 (Boleda) and the ERC under the 2011 Starting Independent Research Grant 283554 to the COMPOSES project (Baroni, Pham). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of DARPA, AFRL or the US government. |
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© ACL, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Document type:
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Conference Object
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Published by:
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ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
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