TY - GEN
T1 - Estimating linear models for compositional distributional semantics
AU - Zanzotto, Fabio Massimo
AU - Korkontzelos, Ioannis
AU - Fallucchi, Francesca
AU - Manandhar, Suresh
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In distributional semantics studies, there is a growing attention in compositionally determining the distributional meaning of word sequences. Yet, compositional distributional models depend on a large set of parameters that have not been explored. In this paper we propose a novel approach to estimate parameters for a class of compositional distributional models: the additive models. Our approach leverages on two main ideas. Firstly, a novel idea for extracting compositional distributional semantics examples. Secondly, an estimation method based on regression models for multiple dependent variables. Experiments demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing methods for determining a good model for compositional distributional semantics.
AB - In distributional semantics studies, there is a growing attention in compositionally determining the distributional meaning of word sequences. Yet, compositional distributional models depend on a large set of parameters that have not been explored. In this paper we propose a novel approach to estimate parameters for a class of compositional distributional models: the additive models. Our approach leverages on two main ideas. Firstly, a novel idea for extracting compositional distributional semantics examples. Secondly, an estimation method based on regression models for multiple dependent variables. Experiments demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing methods for determining a good model for compositional distributional semantics.
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 2
T3 - COLING '10
SP - 1263
EP - 1271
BT - Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference|Coling - Int. Conf. Comput. Linguist., Proc. Conf.
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics
T2 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Coling 2010
Y2 - 1 July 2010
ER -