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Aligning Packed Dependency Trees: a theory of composition for distributional semantics

Computation and Language 2016-08-26 v1

Abstract

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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@article{arxiv.1608.07115,
  title  = {Aligning Packed Dependency Trees: a theory of composition for distributional semantics},
  author = {David Weir and Julie Weeds and Jeremy Reffin and Thomas Kober},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07115},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

To appear in Special issue of Computational Linguistics - Formal Distributional Semantics

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