Quantifying Determiners from the Distributional Semantics View
| Thesis title in Czech: | Quantifying Determiners from the Distributional Semantics View |
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| Thesis title in English: | Quantifying Determiners from the Distributional Semantics View |
| Key words: | distributional semantics, quantifying determiner, word co-occurrences model, corpus |
| English key words: | distributional semantics, quantifying determiner, word co-occurrences model, corpus |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2011/2012 |
| Thesis type: | diploma thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL) |
| Supervisor: | doc. RNDr. Markéta Lopatková, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 10.11.2011 |
| Date of assignment: | 10.11.2011 |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 16.11.2011 |
| Date and time of defence: | 21.01.2013 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 18.12.2012 |
| Date of submission of printed version: | 07.12.2012 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 21.01.2013 |
| Opponents: | doc. Mgr. Barbora Vidová Hladká, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The thesis focus on quantifying determiners (QPs) from the point of view of Distributional Semantics (DS). We aim to build a DS representation of QPs and compare different models. Following (Baroni & Zamparelli, 2010) we induce from the corpus the representation of a phrase instead of a word.
We start from a "word co-occurrences" model extracted from raw corpora, move to representations extracted from parsed corpora and then propose other less standard representations based on psycholinguistic experiments on the use of QPs (Sanford et al., 1994) as well as their analysis with the Formal Semantics framework. To this end, we will propose several surface based features that work as cues to deeper pragmatic and semantic cues. The proposed representations will be evaluated both qualitatively in terms of an analysis of the nearest neighbours of QPs in semantic space, and quantitatively on the task of predicting the presence of entailment between QPs containing different quantifiers. |
| References |
| M. Baroni and R. Zamparelli. Nouns are vectors, adjectives are matrices: Representing adjective-noun constructions in semantic space. In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-10), Cambridge, MA, 2010
M. Baroni and A. Lenci. In preparation. Distributional semantics. Cambridge University Press. Journal of Semantics, volume 11, number 3. Special Issue, Semantics and Psychology, Part 1: The semantics of quantification. Oxford University Press. M. Baroni et al. In preparation. Entailment above the word level in distributional semantics. |