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Guy Emerson

3 accepted papers

2024

Distributional Inclusion Hypothesis and Quantifications: Probing for Hypernymy in Functional Distributional Semantics

ACL 2024long

Functional Distributional Semantics (FDS) models the meaning of words by truth-conditional functions. This provides a natural representation for hypernymy but no guarantee that it can be learnt when FDS models are trained on a corpus. In this paper, we probe into FDS models and study the representat…

2023

Are Embedded Potatoes Still Vegetables? On the Limitations of WordNet Embeddings for Lexical Semantics

EMNLP 2023long main

Knowledge Base Embedding (KBE) models have been widely used to encode structured information from knowledge bases, including WordNet. However, the existing literature has predominantly focused on link prediction as the evaluation task, often neglecting exploration of the models' semantic capabilitie…

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