Modeling parts and wholes

Guarino, Nicola; Pribbenow, Simone; Vieu, Laure

doi:10.1016/s0169-023x(96)00009-2

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“…The various strands of FS also offer philosophically grounded theories of meaning. However, the framework struggles with descriptive content, despite the large amount of work done on lexical semantics and formal ontology (Dowty 1991;Pustejovsky 1995;Pinkal 1995;Guarino, Pribbenow, and Vieu 1996;Kennedy and McNally 2005;Roßdeutscher and Kamp 2010;Asher 2011, among others). This comes from the fact that, being focused on a particular type of logical entailment, FS naturally limits the type of phenomena that it covers, especially at the lexical level.…”

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confidence: 99%

Formal Distributional Semantics: Introduction to the Special Issue

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Herbelot

2016

Computational Linguistics

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Formal Semantics and Distributional Semantics are two very influential semantic frameworks in Computational Linguistics. Formal Semantics is based on a symbolic tradition and centered around the inferential properties of language. Distributional Semantics is statistical and data-driven, and focuses on aspects of meaning related to descriptive content. The two frameworks are complementary in their strengths, and this has motivated interest in combining them into an overarching semantic framework: a “Formal Distributional Semantics.” Given the fundamentally different natures of the two paradigms, however, building an integrative framework poses significant theoretical and engineering challenges. The present issue of Computational Linguistics advances the state of the art in Formal Distributional Semantics; this introductory article explains the motivation behind it and summarizes the contributions of previous work on the topic, providing the necessary background for the articles that follow.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Formal Distributional Semantics: Introduction to the Special Issue

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2016

Computational Linguistics

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“…In the following, I give some example of these ontological relationships, especially those closely related to automated generalization. Note however that, formal definitions to these ontological relationships is not given in this research because a rigorous treatment needs sophisticated comprehension in the study of topology and mereology [78,180,210], which is out of the scope of this research. The semantics of these relationships and the related theorems, for instance, have been given in an axiomatic system by Bittner et al [30].…”

Section: Ontological Relationships Between Categoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%