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Word Relations Slides adapted from Dan Jurafsky, Jim Martin and Chris Manning

Three Perspectives on Meaning Lexical Semantics The meanings of individual words Formal Semantics (or Compositional Semantics or Sentential Semantics) How those meanings combine to make meanings for individual sentences or utterances Discourse or Pragmatics How those meanings combine with each other and with other facts about various kinds of context to make meanings for a text or discourse Dialog or Conversation is often lumped together with Discourse

Outline: Comp Lexical Semantics Intro to Lexical Semantics Homonymy, Polysemy, Synonymy Online resources: WordNet Computational Lexical Semantics Word Sense Disambiguation Supervised Semi-supervised Word Similarity Thesaurus-based Distributional

Preliminaries What’s a word? Definitions we’ve used over the class: Types, tokens, stems, roots, inflected forms, etc... Lexeme: An entry in a lexicon consisting of a pairing of a form with a single meaning representation Lexicon: A collection of lexemes

Relationships between word meanings Homonymy Polysemy Synonymy Antonymy Hypernomy Hyponomy Meronomy

Homonymy Homonymy: Lexemes that share a form Phonological, orthographic or both But have unrelated, distinct meanings Clear example: Bat (wooden stick-like thing) vs Bat (flying scary mammal thing) Or bank (financial institution) versus bank (riverside) Can be homophones, homographs, or both: Homophones: Write and right Piece and peace

Homonymy causes problems for NLP applications Text-to-Speech Same orthographic form but different phonological form bass vs bass Information retrieval Different meanings same orthographic form QUERY: bat care Machine Translation Speech recognition Why?

Polysemy The bank is constructed from red brick I withdrew the money from the bank Are those the same sense? Or consider the following WSJ example While some banks furnish sperm only to married women, others are less restrictive Which sense of bank is this? Is it distinct from (homonymous with) the river bank sense? How about the savings bank sense?

Polysemy A single lexeme with multiple related meanings (bank the building, bank the financial institution) Most non-rare words have multiple meanings The number of meanings is related to its frequency Verbs tend more to polysemy Distinguishing polysemy from homonymy isn’t always easy (or necessary)

Metaphor and Metonymy Specific types of polysemy Metaphor: Metonymy Germany will pull Slovenia out of its economic slump. I spent 2 hours on that homework. Metonymy The White House announced yesterday. This chapter talks about part-of-speech tagging Bank (building) and bank (financial institution)

How do we know when a word has more than one sense? ATIS examples Which flights serve breakfast? Does America West serve Philadelphia? The “zeugma” test: ?Does United serve breakfast and San Jose?

Synonyms Word that have the same meaning in some or all contexts. filbert / hazelnut couch / sofa big / large automobile / car vomit / throw up Water / H20 Two lexemes are synonyms if they can be successfully substituted for each other in all situations If so they have the same propositional meaning

Synonyms But there are few (or no) examples of perfect synonymy. Why should that be? Even if many aspects of meaning are identical Still may not preserve the acceptability based on notions of politeness, slang, register, genre, etc. Example: Water and H20

Some more terminology Lemmas and wordforms A lexeme is an abstract pairing of meaning and form A lemma or citation form is the grammatical form that is used to represent a lexeme. Carpet is the lemma for carpets Dormir is the lemma for duermes. Specific surface forms carpets, sung, duermes are called wordforms The lemma bank has two senses: Instead, a bank can hold the investments in a custodial account in the client’s name But as agriculture burgeons on the east bank, the river will shrink even more. A sense is a discrete representation of one aspect of the meaning of a word

Synonymy is a relation between senses rather than words Consider the words big and large Are they synonyms? How big is that plane? Would I be flying on a large or small plane? How about here: Miss Nelson, for instance, became a kind of big sister to Benjamin. ?Miss Nelson, for instance, became a kind of large sister to Benjamin. Why? big has a sense that means being older, or grown up large lacks this sense

Antonyms Senses that are opposites with respect to one feature of their meaning Otherwise, they are very similar! dark / light short / long hot / cold up / down in / out More formally: antonyms can define a binary opposition or at opposite ends of a scale (long/short, fast/slow) Be reversives: rise/fall, up/down

Hyponymy One sense is a hyponym of another if the first sense is more specific, denoting a subclass of the other car is a hyponym of vehicle dog is a hyponym of animal mango is a hyponym of fruit Conversely vehicle is a hypernym/superordinate of car animal is a hypernym of dog fruit is a hypernym of mango superordinate vehicle fruit furniture mammal hyponym car mango chair dog

Hypernymy more formally Extensional: The class denoted by the superordinate extensionally includes the class denoted by the hyponym Entailment: A sense A is a hyponym of sense B if being an A entails being a B Hyponymy is usually transitive (A hypo B and B hypo C entails A hypo C)

II. WordNet A hierarchically organized lexical database On-line thesaurus + aspects of a dictionary Versions for other languages are under development Category Unique Forms Noun 117,097 Verb 11,488 Adjective 22,141 Adverb 4,601

WordNet Where it is: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

Format of Wordnet Entries

WordNet Noun Relations

WordNet Verb Relations

WordNet Hierarchies

How is “sense” defined in WordNet? The set of near-synonyms for a WordNet sense is called a synset (synonym set); it’s their version of a sense or a concept Example: chump as a noun to mean ‘a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of’ Each of these senses share this same gloss Thus for WordNet, the meaning of this sense of chump is this list.