GdR LIFT is happy to announce the two forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics:
- 2022/04/12 15:00-16:00 UTC+2: *Noortje Venhuizen* (Saarland
University);
Title: *Distributional Formal Semantics*
Abstract: *Formal Semantics and Distributional Semantics offer
complementary strengths in capturing the meaning of natural language. As
such, a considerable amount of research has sought to unify them, either by
augmenting formal semantic systems with a distributional component, or by
defining a formal system on top of distributed representations. Arriving at
such a unified formalism has, however, proven extremely challenging. One
reason for this is that formal and distributional semantics operate on a
fundamentally different ‘representational currency’: formal semantics
defines meaning in terms of models of the world, whereas distributional
semantics defines meaning in terms of linguistic context. An alternative
approach from cognitive science, however, proposes a vector space model
that defines meaning in a distributed manner relative to the state of the
world. This talk presents a re-conceptualisation of this approach based on
well-known principles from formal semantics, thereby demonstrating its full
logical capacity. The resulting Distributional Formal Semantics is shown to
offer the best of both worlds: contextualised distributed representations
that are also inherently compositional and probabilistic. The application
of the representations is illustrated using a neural network model that
captures various semantic phenomena, including probabilistic inference and
entailment, negation, quantification, reference resolution and
presupposition.*
- 2022/05/17 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: *Roger Levy* (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; 11:00-12:00 UTC-4)
Title: [TBA]
Abstract: [TBA]
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