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Representing syntax and composition with geometric transformations
conference contribution
posted on 2023-06-12, 09:52 authored by Lorenzo Scott Bertolini, Julie WeedsJulie Weeds, David WeirDavid Weir, Qiwei PengQiwei PengThe exploitation of syntactic graphs (SyGs) as a word's context has been shown to be beneficial for distributional semantic models (DSMs), both at the level of individual word representations and in deriving phrasal representations via composition. However, notwithstanding the potential performance benefit, the syntactically-aware DSMs proposed to date have huge numbers of parameters (compared to conventional DSMs) and suffer from data sparsity. Furthermore, the encoding of the SyG links (i.e., the syntactic relations) has been largely limited to linear maps. The knowledge graphs' literature, on the other hand, has proposed light-weight models employing different geometric transformations (GTs) to encode edges in a knowledge graph (KG). Our work explores the possibility of adopting this family of models to encode SyGs. Furthermore, we investigate which GT better encodes syntactic relations, so that these representations can be used to enhance phrase-level composition via syntactic contextualisation.
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2021Publisher
Association for Computational LinguisticsPage range
3343-3353Event name
The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021)Event location
Bangkok, ThailandEvent type
conferenceEvent date
August 1-6, 2021Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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