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Collecting Weighted Coercions from Crowd-Sourced Lexical Data for Compositional Semantic Analysis

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Type-theoretic frameworks for compositional semantics are aimed at producing structured meaning representations of natural language utterances.

Using elements of lexical semantics, these frameworks are able to model many complex phenomena related to the polysemy of words and their context-dependent meanings. However, they are just as powerful as the lexical resources they can access. This paper explores ways to create and enrich wide-coverage, weighted lexical resources from crowd-sourced data. Specifically, we investigate how existing rich lexical networks – created and validated by serious games – can be used to infer linguistic coercions along with ranking corresponding to preferences in their interpretations.

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  1. LIRMM – UMR 5506, CNRS & Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Mathieu Lafourcade, Mehdi Mirzapour, Richard Moot & Christian Retoré

  2. LaBRI – UMR 5800, CNRS & Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

    Bruno Mery

  3. IUT de Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux, Gradignan Cedex, France

    Bruno Mery

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    Sachiyo Arai

  2. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan

    Kazuhiro Kojima

  3. Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan

    Koji Mineshima

  4. Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan

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  5. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

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Lafourcade, M., Mery, B., Mirzapour, M., Moot, R., Retoré, C. (2018). Collecting Weighted Coercions from Crowd-Sourced Lexical Data for Compositional Semantic Analysis. In: Arai, S., Kojima, K., Mineshima, K., Bekki, D., Satoh, K., Ohta, Y. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10838. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93794-6_15

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