Building a True Semantic World: Generalizing set-theoretic semantics in vector spaces

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• Eva Maria Vecchi
• Thursday 11 May 2017, 11:00-12:00
• SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Mohammad Taher Pilehvar.

Quantification is intrinsic to most utterances in natural language. It encompasses fundamental information which is a prerequisite for lexical semantics and inference tasks, such as hyponomy and entailment. Yet, we are unable to denote this information computationally in state-of-the-art semantic models. In this talk, I present an approach to automatically map a distributional semantic space onto a set-theoretic model to induce generalized quantifiers for subject-predicate pairs. I begin from the prediction that there is a functional relationship between distributional information and vectorial concept representations. I first introduce a large, computationally-friendly dataset motivated by understanding, theoretically, to which extent speakers agree on a single model of the world. Then I present a model to test this prediction and show that we can, indeed, map between formalisms, and further, we can generate natural language quantifiers sensibly.

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