DisCoCat for Donkey Sentences

no code implementations • 8 Aug 2023 • Lachlan McPheat, Daphne Wang

We demonstrate how to parse Geach's Donkey sentences in a compositional distributional model of meaning.

A Quantum Natural Language Processing Approach to Pronoun Resolution

no code implementations • 10 Aug 2022 • Hadi Wazni, Kin Ian Lo, Lachlan McPheat, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

We use the Lambek Calculus with soft sub-exponential modalities to model and reason about discourse relations such as anaphora and ellipsis.

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Vector Space Semantics for Lambek Calculus with Soft Subexponentials

no code implementations • 22 Nov 2021 • Lachlan McPheat, Hadi Wazni, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

We develop a vector space semantics for Lambek Calculus with Soft Subexponentials, apply the calculus to construct compositional vector interpretations for parasitic gap noun phrases and discourse units with anaphora and ellipsis, and experiment with the constructions in a distributional sentence similarity task.

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Categorical Vector Space Semantics for Lambek Calculus with a Relevant Modality

no code implementations • 6 May 2020 • Lachlan McPheat, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Hadi Wazni, Gijs Wijnholds

We develop a categorical compositional distributional semantics for Lambek Calculus with a Relevant Modality ! L*, which has a limited edition of the contraction and permutation rules.

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