word meanings
A Computational Study on Word Meanings and Their Distributed Representations via Polymodal Embedding
... a word, coffee, can be understood from mul- tiple ...polymodal word representation based on the theory that humans tend to use diverse sources in developing a word ...
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Interactively Learning Visually Grounded Word Meanings from a Human Tutor
... We present a multi-modal dialogue sys- tem for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremen- tal, semantic parsing/generation frame- work ...
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Simple Learning and Compositional Application of Perceptually Grounded Word Meanings for Incremental Reference Resolution
... a word and that object “fit to- ...a word, which for example in Montague’s approach is similarly modelled as a function, but from possible worlds to extensions (Gamut, .../ word meanings: ...
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The BURCHAK corpus: a Challenge Data Set for Interactive Learning of Visually Grounded Word Meanings
... We motivate and describe a new freely available human-human dialogue data set for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings through osten- sive definition by a tutor to a learner. The data has ...
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Deriving word meanings from context: does explanation facilitate contextual analysis?
... which word learning is incidental to the activity of reading (Swanborn & de Glopper, ...new word meanings from ...derive word meanings from ...target word, for which they ...
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Listeners and readers generalise their experience with word meanings across modalities
... target word recognition differs for spoken and written words, so the relative timing of the probe word onset will also differ between the two presentation modalities even when using the same stimulus onset ...
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Obtaining referential word meanings from visual and distributional information: Experiments on object naming
... of word meaning are known to capture a rather fuzzy notion of lexical similarity, ...referential word meanings is restricted to certain types of words and does not generalize across the vocabulary ...
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Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings
... We present a multi-modal dialogue sys- tem for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremen- tal, semantic parsing/generation frame- work ...
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Toward Learning Perceptually Grounded Word Meanings from Unaligned Parallel Data
... grounded word meanings from an unaligned parallel corpus that only provides supervision for the top-level ac- tion that corresponds to a natural language com- ...
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Exploring Storybook Illustrations in Learning Word Meanings
... deriving word meanings, some students may not have well- developed strategies for dealing with illustrations, or their reading preferences favored a less visual ...
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Is this a Child, a Girl or a Car? Exploring the Contribution of Distributional Similarity to Learning Referential Word Meanings
... visual word predictors that iden- tify objects in images, by exploiting dis- tributional similarity information during ...referential word meanings by taking into account their se- mantic similarity ...
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Learning Word Meanings and Grammar for Describing Everyday Activities in Smart Environments
... a word is considered to express a category when the MI between the word and category is ...a word with small MI is identified as a functional ...a word w ...
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Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word Meanings and Document Retrieval
... 15 word context-window, giving each term 1000 ...for word-sense disambiguation (Sch¨ utze, 1998) and automatic lexical acquisition (Widdows, 2003), and these similarities were used to generate in- teresting ...
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Contextual priming of word meanings is stabilized over sleep
... As discussed in the introduction, we see our model as compatible with the work of Duff and Brown- Schmidt (2017), who have provided a substantial body of evidence from amnesic participants relating to the involvement of ...
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Contextual priming of word meanings is stabilized over sleep
... of word-meaning priming might make use of the hippocampus to facilitate the encoding or binding of new associations between the words in a sentence during the exposure ses- ...why word-meaning priming ...
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A Mathematical Model of Historical Semantics and the Grouping of Word Meanings into Concepts
... of word senses from dictionaries through obsolescence contrasts with the fact that 22% of the words in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) [30] are marked as ...of word senses in a dictionary is an ...
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A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child Directed Utterances and their Meanings
... child word learning have focused on semantics only, learning word meanings from utterances paired with either sets of concept sym- bols (Yu and Ballard, 2007; Frank et ...as word- ...
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Word Meaning in Legal Interpretation
... to word meaning if ...their word meanings because citizens who try to obey the law usually assume reasonably that those words have their common word meanings (and people often do not ...
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Incorporating Latent Meanings of Morphological Compositions to Enhance Word Embeddings
... in word embed- dings, and the results are listed in Table 2 (first 6 ...latent meanings in the context ...into word embeddings but lacks the ability to capture more semantic ...
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Media, Language and Meaning Construction
... the word is the medium in which they produce slow accumulation of quantitative changes that have not yet had time to acquire a new ideological quality, which has not had time to engineer a new and finished ...
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