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cs.CL2022
Zero-shot Cross-Linguistic Learning of Event Semantics
Malihe Alikhani, Thomas Kober, Bashar Alhafni +6
Typologically diverse languages offer systems of lexical and grammatical aspect that allow speakers to focus on facets of event structure in ways that comport with the specific com…
cs.CL2016
Aligning Packed Dependency Trees: a theory of composition for distributional semantics
David Weir, Julie Weeds, Jeremy Reffin +1
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…
cs.CL2016
Improving Sparse Word Representations with Distributional Inference for Semantic Composition
Thomas Kober, Julie Weeds, Jeremy Reffin +1
Distributional models are derived from co-occurrences in a corpus, where only a small proportion of all possible plausible co-occurrences will be observed. This results in a very s…