Abstract
Words can have multiple senses. Compositional distributional models of meaning have been argued to deal well with finer shades of meaning variation known as polysemy, but are not so well equipped to handle word senses that are etymologically unrelated, or homonymy. Moving from vectors to density matrices allows us to encode a probability distribution over different senses of a word, and can also be accommodated within a compositional distributional model of meaning. In this paper we present three new neural models for learning density matrices from a corpus, and test their ability to discriminate between word senses on a range of compositional datasets. When paired with a particular composition method, our best model outperforms existing vector-based compositional models as well as strong sentence encoders.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Pages | 276-290 |
Number of pages | 15 |
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Publication status | Published - 19 Nov 2020 |
Event | 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning - Online Duration: 19 Nov 2020 → 20 Nov 2020 https://www.conll.org/2020 |
Conference
Conference | 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning |
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Abbreviated title | CoNLL 2020 |
Period | 19/11/20 → 20/11/20 |
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