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Semantic transparency: challenges for distributional semantics

conference contribution
posted on 2023-07-26, 13:10 authored by Melanie J. Bell, Martin Schafer
Using data from Reddy et al. (2011), we present a series of regression models of semantic transparency in compound nouns. The results indicate that the frequencies of the compound constituents, the semantic relation between the constituents, and metaphorical shift of a constituent or of the compound as a whole, all contribute to the overall perceived level of transparency. While not proposing an actual distributional model of transparency, we hypothesise that incorporating this information into such a model would improve its success and we suggest some ways this might be possible.

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1-10

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Association for Computational Linguistics

Place of publication

Online

Conference proceeding

Proceedings of the IWCS 2013 Workshop Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics

Name of event

IWCS 2013 Workshop Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics

Location

Potsdam, Germany

Event start date

2013-03-19

Event finish date

2013-03-19

Editors

Aurelie Herbelot, Roberto Zamparelli, Gemma Boleda

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  • other

Legacy posted date

2013-06-03

Legacy creation date

2017-12-05

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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