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New pre-print with Katrin Erk:
"How to marry a star? Probabilistic constraints for meaning in context."
A theoretical paper on evocation: how people ‘imagine' an entire situation from a few words, and how meaning is contextualised in the process.
arxiv.org/abs/2009.07936 /1
"How to marry a star? Probabilistic constraints for meaning in context."
A theoretical paper on evocation: how people ‘imagine' an entire situation from a few words, and how meaning is contextualised in the process.
arxiv.org/abs/2009.07936 /1
#lightreading summary ⬇️
When you hear 'the batter ran to the ball', what do you imagine? A batter? A ball? But perhaps also a pitch, an audience, the sun and a cap on the head of the batter.
What do you imagine when you hear 'the duchess drove to the ball'? /2
When you hear 'the batter ran to the ball', what do you imagine? A batter? A ball? But perhaps also a pitch, an audience, the sun and a cap on the head of the batter.
What do you imagine when you hear 'the duchess drove to the ball'? /2
We propose a computational model which takes a (simple) sentence and builds a conceptual description for it. In the process of doing so, it captures appropriate word senses or other lexical meaning variations. E.g. that the batter's ball is not a dancing event. /3
