Lexical semantics and compositionality.

By Barbara H. Partee. 1995

Subfields: Computational Linguistics & Semantics, Linguistics

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Compositionality Decomposed: How do Neural Networks Generalise? (2019, background): “A principle closely related to the principle of compositionality (here, we consider the version of [Partee, 1995]) is the principle of substitutivity , which states that if an expression is altered by replacing one of its constituents with another constituent with the same meaning, this does not…”
Enhanced LSTM for Natural Language Inference (2016, background): “In many problems, syntax and semantics interact closely, including in semantic composition (Partee, 1995), among others.”
Concepts and categories: Memory, meaning, and metaphysics (2012, background): “It is sufficient to find some computable function from the components to the composite that is simple enough to account for people’s understanding (see Partee, 1995, for a discussion of types of composition).”
Enhancing and Combining Sequential and Tree LSTM for Natural Language Inference (2016, background): “del achieves an accuracy of 88.0% on the SNLI benchmark. Exploring syntax for NLI is very attractive to us. In many problems, syntax and semantics interact closely, including in semantic composition (Partee, 1995), among others. Complicated tasks such as natural language inference could well involve”
Cross-linguistic representations of numerals and number marking (2010, unknown): “This characteristic is very similar to privative adjectival modifiers like fake (Kamp & Partee 1995; Partee 1995, 2010; Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet 2000).”
Composition in Distributional Models of Semantics (2010, background): “This property is often captured in the following principle: The meaning of a whole is a function of the meaning of the parts (Partee, 1995, p. 313).”
Is the Red Square Big? MALeViC: Modeling Adjectives Leveraging Visual Contexts (2019, background): “In contrast, if it is a big moon and a celestial body, the inference that Ganymede is a big celestial body is not valid (Partee, 1995).”
A case for deep learning in semantics: Response to Pater (2019, methodology): “When considering a role for DL in semantics, it is worth revisiting what Partee (1995) calls lewis’s advice : ‘In order to say what a meaning is , we may first ask what a meaning does , and then find something that does that’ (Lewis 1970:22).”
The Semantic Classification of Adjectives. A View from Syntax. (2014, background): “The standard semantic classification of adjectives, stemming from work by Clark, Kamp, Parsons and Montague of the early ‘70s, 14 epitomized in Partee (1995) and Kamp and Partee (1995), considered adjectives as arranged along an ‘intersectivity’ hierarchy restricted by meaning postulates which…”
The Psychological Reality of Phonaesthemes (2004, background): “Most linguistic theories view compositionality, along with the resulting productivity, as a defining feature of human language (Janssen 1997, Partee 1995).”