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Representation Learning for Type-Driven Composition

1 Nov 2020CONLL 2020archive 2025-07-28

Gijs Wijnholds, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Stephen Clark

This paper is about learning word representations using grammatical type information. We use the syntactic types of Combinatory Categorial Grammar to develop multilinear representations, i.e. maps with n arguments, for words with different functional types. The multilinear maps of words compose with each other to form sentence representations. We extend the skipgram algorithm from vectors to multi- linear maps to learn these representations and instantiate it on unary and binary maps for transitive verbs. These are evaluated on verb and sentence similarity and disambiguation tasks and a subset of the SICK relatedness dataset. Our model performs better than previous type- driven models and is competitive with state of the art representation learning methods such as BERT and neural sentence encoders.

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Representation LearningSentenceSentence SimilarityVocal Bursts Type Prediction

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