PPT-1 Distributional Semantics:

Word Association and Similarity Ido Dagan Including Slides by Katrin Erk mostly Marco Baroni Alessandro Lenci BLESS 2 Word Association Measures Goal measure the statistical strength of word term cooccurrence in corpus. se 1 Introduction Distributional approaches to meaning acquisition utilize distributional proper ties of linguistic entities as the building blocks of semantics In doing so they rely fundamentally on a set of assumptions about the nature of language Katie Welch, PhD. LING3311-001. How do we know what words mean?. When we want to know what a word means, we often turn a familiar source—the dictionary. . Why is the dictionary not a sufficient method for determining meaning? . Katrin Erk. University of Texas at . Austin. Meaning in Context Symposium. München. September 2015. Joint work with Gemma . Boleda. Semantic features by example: . Katz & Fodor. Different meanings of a word characterized by lists of semantic features. Harris T. Lin. , . Sanghack. Lee, . Ngot. Bui and . Vasant. . Honavar. Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Iowa State University. htlin@iastate.edu. Introduction. Word Association and Similarity. Ido Dagan. Including Slides by:. . Katrin. Erk (mostly), Marco Baroni,. Alessandro Lenci (BLESS). 2. Word Association Measures. Goal: measure the statistical strength of word (term) co-occurrence in corpus. Text-to-Scene Generation. 1. Bob Coyne (. coyne@cs.columbia.edu. ). Owen . Rambow. (. rambow@ccls.columbia.edu. ). . Richard . Sproat. (. rws@xoba.com. ). Julia Hirschberg (. julia@columbia.edu. ). Katrin . Erk. You can get an idea of what a word means from observing it in context. He filled the . wampimuk. , passed it around, and we all drank some. We found a little hairy . wampimuk. . sleeping behind a tree. . S. imilarity to Semantic Relations. Georgeta. . Bordea. , November 25. Based on a talk by Alessandro . Lenci. . titled “Will DS ever become Semantic?”, Jan 2014. Distributional Semantics . (DS. A branch of linguistics dealing with the study of meaning, including the ways meaning is structured in language and changes in meaning and form over time . (Random House Webster’s Dictionary). Semantics, roughly defined, is the study of meaning. and . Distributional. Semantics. :. Between. . Syntactic. . Structures. and . Compositional. . Distributional. Semantics. Fabio Massimo . Zanzotto. ART Group. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Impresa. in Lexical Typology:. Constructing a typological questionnaire. Daria . Ryzhova. School of Linguistics. NRU HSE. Outline. Lexical Typology: Frame-based Approach. Ideology. Typological questionnaire. MAS.S60. Rob Speer. Catherine . Havasi. * Lots of slides borrowed for lots of sources! See end. . Are people doing logic?. Language Log: “Russia sentences”. *More people have been to Russia than I have.. Chapter 3 Topics. Introduction. The General Problem of Describing Syntax. Formal Methods of Describing Syntax. Attribute Grammars. Describing . the Meanings of Programs: Dynamic Semantics. 1-. 2. Introduction. Erk. You can get an idea of what a word means from observing it in context. He filled the . wampimuk. , passed it around, and we all drank some. We found a little hairy . wampimuk. . sleeping behind a tree. .