A Frobenius Model of Information Structure in Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics
Year: 2015
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The categorical compositional distributional model of Coecke et al. (2010) provides a linguistically motivated procedure for computing the meaning of a sentence as a function of the distributional meaning of the words therein.The theoretical framework allows for reasoning about compositional aspects of language and offers structural ways of studying the underlying relationships.While the model so far has been applied on the level of syntactic structures, a sentence can bring extra information conveyed in utterances via intonational means.In the current paper we extend the framework in order to accommodate this additional information, using Frobenius algebraic structures canonically induced over the basis of finite-dimensional vector spaces.We detail the theory, provide truth-theoretic and distributional semantics for meanings of intonationally-marked utterances, and present justifications and extensive examples.
DOI: 10.3115/v1/w15-2306
Authors: Dimitri Kartsaklis, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Institutions: Queen Mary University of London, University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W1845622733