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From raw text to linear λ-terms

  • Konstantinos Kogkalidis (Invited speaker)

    Activity: Talk or presentationPoster/paper presentationAcademic

    Description

    Recent advances in distributional-compositional semantics propose the use of vectorial word representations as a means of constructing meaning for larger linguistic units. The spaces occupied by these representations and the manner in which they combine are dictated by linearλ-terms which encode the sentence semantics. Despite their crucial role in the composition process, the terms them-selves are given little attention and are assumed to be known in advance. This work proposes a general framework for converting unprocessed text into a Type-Logical syntactic derivation. The Curry-Howard correspondence between proofs and programs identifies the derivation with a unique corresponding term, which can then be used as a generic structural skeleton for any semantic interpretation.
    Period6 Jul 2019
    Event titleWoLLIC 2019: Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
    Event typeConference
    LocationUtrecht, NetherlandsShow on map