Investigatingadjectivedenotationandcollocation课件.pptVIP

Investigating adjective denotation and collocation Ann Copestake Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge Outline introduction: compositional semantics, GL and semantic space models. denotation and collocation distribution of `magnitude’ adjectives hypotheses about adjective denotation and collocation semi-productivity Themes semi-productivity: extending paper in GL 2001 to phrases statistical and symbolic models interacting generation as well as analysis computational account Different branches of computational semantics compositional semantics: capture syntax, (some) close-class words and (some) morphology every x [ dog’(x) - bark’(x)] large coverage grammars as testbed for GL (constructions, composition, underspecification) lexical semantics, e.g., GL (interacts with compositional semantics) WordNet meaning postulates etc semantic space models, e.g., LSA Schütze (1995) Lin (multiple papers), Pado and Lapata (2003) semantic spaces acquired from corpora generally, collect vectors of words which co-occur with the target more sophisticated models incorporate syntactic relationships Semantic space models and compositional semantics? do spaces correspond to predicates in compositional semantics? e.g., bark’ attractions automatic acquisition similarity metrics, priming fuzziness, meaning variation, sense clustering statistical approximation to real world knowledge? (but fallacy with parse selection techniques) problems classical lexical semantic relations (hyponymy etc) aren’t captured well can’t do inference sensitivity to domain/corpus role of collocation? Denotation: assumptions Truth-conditional, logically formalisable (in principle), refers to `real world’ (extension) Not necessarily decomposable: natural kinds (dog’ – canis familiaris), natural predicates Naive physics, biology, etc Computationally: specification of meaning that interfaces with non-linguistic components Selectional restrictions? bark’(x) - dog’(x) or seal’(x) or ... Collocation: assumptio