Decomposing Generalization: Models of Generic, Habitual and Episodic Statements

Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, Benjamin Van Durme, Aaron Steven White

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Semantics: Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics TACL Paper

Session 4A: Jul 6 (17:00-18:00 GMT)
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Abstract: We present a novel semantic framework for modeling linguistic expressions of generalization— generic, habitual, and episodic statements—as combinations of simple, real-valued referential properties of predicates and their arguments. We use this framework to construct a dataset covering the entirety of the Universal Dependencies English Web Treebank. We use this dataset to probe the efficacy of type-level and token-level information—including hand-engineered features and static (GloVe) and contextual (ELMo) word embeddings—for predicting expressions of generalization.
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