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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019 Netherlands, BelgiumPublisher:Frontiers Media SA Funded by:UKRI | DTA - Queen Mary, Univers..., EC | CONCRETE, EC | EMBEDDIA +1 projectsUKRI| DTA - Queen Mary, University of London ,EC| CONCRETE ,EC| EMBEDDIA ,CHIST-ERA| ATLANTISStephen McGregor; Kat Agres; Karolina Rataj; Karolina Rataj; Matthew Purver; Geraint Wiggins; Geraint Wiggins;pmc: PMC6476275
pmid: 31037062
In this paper, we present a novel context-dependent approach to modelling word meaning, and apply it to the modelling of metaphor. In distributional semantic approaches, words are represented as points in a high dimensional space generated from co-occurrence statistics; the distances between points may then be used to quantifying semantic relationships. Contrary to other approaches which use static, global representations, our approach discovers contextualised representations by dynamically projecting low-dimensional subspaces; in these \textit{ad hoc} spaces, words can be re-represented in an open-ended assortment of geometrical and conceptual configurations as appropriate for particular contexts. We hypothesise that this context-specific re-representation enables a more effective model of the semantics of metaphor than standard static approaches. We test this hypothesis on a dataset of English word dyads rated for degrees of metaphoricity, meaningfulness, and familiarity by human participants. We demonstrate that our model captures these ratings more effectively than a state-of-the-art static model, and does so via the amount of contextualising work inherent in the re-representational process.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesgold 2 citations 2 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!visibility 42visibility views 42 download downloads 54 Powered bymore_vert Frontiers in Psychol... arrow_drop_down Frontiers in PsychologyArticle . 2019Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6476275Data sources: PubMed CentralNARCIS; Frontiers in PsychologyArticle . 2019ZENODO; Frontiers in PsychologyOther literature type . Article . 2019 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYVrije Universiteit Brussel Research PortalArticle . 2019Data sources: Vrije Universiteit Brussel Research Portaladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019 Netherlands, BelgiumPublisher:Frontiers Media SA Funded by:UKRI | DTA - Queen Mary, Univers..., EC | CONCRETE, EC | EMBEDDIA +1 projectsUKRI| DTA - Queen Mary, University of London ,EC| CONCRETE ,EC| EMBEDDIA ,CHIST-ERA| ATLANTISStephen McGregor; Kat Agres; Karolina Rataj; Karolina Rataj; Matthew Purver; Geraint Wiggins; Geraint Wiggins;pmc: PMC6476275
pmid: 31037062
In this paper, we present a novel context-dependent approach to modelling word meaning, and apply it to the modelling of metaphor. In distributional semantic approaches, words are represented as points in a high dimensional space generated from co-occurrence statistics; the distances between points may then be used to quantifying semantic relationships. Contrary to other approaches which use static, global representations, our approach discovers contextualised representations by dynamically projecting low-dimensional subspaces; in these \textit{ad hoc} spaces, words can be re-represented in an open-ended assortment of geometrical and conceptual configurations as appropriate for particular contexts. We hypothesise that this context-specific re-representation enables a more effective model of the semantics of metaphor than standard static approaches. We test this hypothesis on a dataset of English word dyads rated for degrees of metaphoricity, meaningfulness, and familiarity by human participants. We demonstrate that our model captures these ratings more effectively than a state-of-the-art static model, and does so via the amount of contextualising work inherent in the re-representational process.
Frontiers in Psychol... arrow_drop_down Frontiers in PsychologyArticle . 2019Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6476275Data sources: PubMed CentralNARCIS; Frontiers in PsychologyArticle . 2019ZENODO; Frontiers in PsychologyOther literature type . Article . 2019 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYVrije Universiteit Brussel Research PortalArticle . 2019Data sources: Vrije Universiteit Brussel Research Portaladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesgold 2 citations 2 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!visibility 42visibility views 42 download downloads 54 Powered bymore_vert Frontiers in Psychol... arrow_drop_down Frontiers in PsychologyArticle . 2019Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6476275Data sources: PubMed CentralNARCIS; Frontiers in PsychologyArticle . 2019ZENODO; Frontiers in PsychologyOther literature type . Article . 2019 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYVrije Universiteit Brussel Research PortalArticle . 2019Data sources: Vrije Universiteit Brussel Research Portaladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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