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According to the principle of compositional generalization, the meaning of a complex expression can be understood as a function of the meaning of its parts and of how they are combined. This principle is crucial for human language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sungjun Han , Sebastian Padó

A rapidly growing body of research on compositional generalization investigates the ability of a semantic parser to dynamically recombine linguistic elements seen in training into unseen sequences. We present a systematic comparison of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Pia Weißenhorn , Yuekun Yao , Lucia Donatelli , Alexander Koller

In the recent years, a lot of attention has been paid to the development of solid foundations for the composition and inversion of schema mappings. In this paper, we review the proposals for the semantics of these crucial operators. For…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-03-04 Marcelo Arenas , Jorge Perez , Juan Reutter , Cristian Riveros

Natural language is compositional; the meaning of a sentence is a function of the meaning of its parts. This property allows humans to create and interpret novel sentences, generalizing robustly outside their prior experience. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Henry Conklin , Bailin Wang , Kenny Smith , Ivan Titov

We study the semantic foundation of expressive probabilistic programming languages, that support higher-order functions, continuous distributions, and soft constraints (such as Anglican, Church, and Venture). We define a metalanguage (an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Sam Staton , Hongseok Yang , Chris Heunen , Ohad Kammar , Frank Wood

Semantic composition functions have been playing a pivotal role in neural representation learning of text sequences. In spite of their success, most existing models suffer from the underfitting problem: they use the same shared…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Junkun Chen , Xipeng Qiu , Pengfei Liu , Xuanjing Huang

Mechanistic interpretability aims to explain neural model behaviour by reverse-engineering learned computational structure into human-understandable components. Without a formal framework, however, mechanistic explanations cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ward Gauderis , Thomas Dooms , Steven T. Holmer , Kola Ayonrinde , Geraint A. Wiggins

Systematic compositionality is the ability to recombine meaningful units with regular and predictable outcomes, and it's seen as key to humans' capacity for generalization in language. Recent work has studied systematic compositionality in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-20 João Loula , Marco Baroni , Brenden M. Lake

Large language models follow a lineage of many NLP applications that were directly inspired by distributional semantics, but do not seem to be closely related to it anymore. In this paper, we propose to employ the distributional theory of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Tomáš Musil , David Mareček

Compositionality is considered central to language abilities. As performant language systems, how do large language models (LLMs) do on compositional tasks? We evaluate adjective-noun compositionality in LLMs using two complementary setups:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ruchira Dhar , Qiwei Peng , Anders Søgaard

Type-based compositional distributional semantic models present an interesting line of research into functional representations of linguistic meaning. One of the drawbacks of such models, however, is the lack of training data required to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Tamara Polajnar

Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials play a fundamental role in computational chemistry and materials science, enabling applications from molecular dynamics simulations to drug design and materials discovery. While recent approaches can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Amir Masoud Nourollah , Irtaza Khalid , Stefano Leoni , Steven Schockaert

Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing importance, speech summarization remains loosely defined. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Fabian Retkowski , Maike Züfle , Andreas Sudmann , Dinah Pfau , Shinji Watanabe , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

The given work describes methodological principles of design instrumental complex of ontological purpose. Instrumental complex intends for the implementation of the integrated information technologies automated build of domain ontologies.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-28 A. V. Palagin , N. G. Petrenko , V. Yu. Velychko , K. S. Malakhov , Yu. L. Tikhonov

The categorical compositional distributional (DisCoCat) model of meaning developed by Coecke et al. (2010) has been successful in modeling various aspects of meaning. However, it fails to model the fact that language can change. We give an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Tai-Danae Bradley , Martha Lewis , Jade Master , Brad Theilman

We propose a set of compositional design patterns to describe a large variety of systems that combine statistical techniques from machine learning with symbolic techniques from knowledge representation. As in other areas of computer science…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Frank van Harmelen , Annette ten Teije

Overall, the two main contributions of this work include the application of sentence simplification to association extraction as described above, and the use of distributional semantics for concept extraction. The proposed work on concept…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-09-13 Siddhartha Jonnalagadda

This paper connects a vector-based composition model to a formal semantics, the Dependency-based Compositional Semantics (DCS). We show theoretical evidence that the vector compositions in our model conform to the logic of DCS.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Ran Tian , Naoaki Okazaki , Kentaro Inui

Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms have become ubiquitous. Although they offer a wide range of benefits, their adoption in decision-critical fields is limited by their lack of interpretability, particularly with textual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Diego Antognini

Compositional generalization-a key open challenge in modern machine learning-requires models to predict unknown combinations of known concepts. However, assessing compositional generalization remains a fundamental challenge due to the lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Giacomo Camposampiero , Pietro Barbiero , Michael Hersche , Roger Wattenhofer , Abbas Rahimi