A structured vector space model for hidden attribute meaning in adjective-noun phrases

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Hartung;Anette Frank

  • Affiliations:
  • Heidelberg University;Heidelberg University

  • Venue:
  • COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present an approach to model hidden attributes in the compositional semantics of adjective-noun phrases in a distributional model. For the representation of adjective meanings, we reformulate the pattern-based approach for attribute learning of Almuhareb (2006) in a structured vector space model (VSM). This model is complemented by a structured vector space representing attribute dimensions of noun meanings. The combination of these representations along the lines of compositional semantic principles exposes the underlying semantic relations in adjective-noun phrases. We show that our compositional VSM outperforms simple pattern-based approaches by circumventing their inherent sparsity problems.