Compositionality and sandbag semantics

Compositionality and sandbag semantics

It is a common view that radical contextualism about linguistic meaning is incompatible with a compositional explanation of linguistic comprehension. Recently, some philosophers of language have proposed theories of ‘pragmatic’ compositionality challenging this assumption. This paper takes a close look at a prominent proposal of this kind due to François Recanati. The objective is to give a pla...

Compositionality in distributional semantics

Program Semantics, Intensional Logic and Compositionality

We apply intensional logic to the semantics of an Algol-like programming language. This associates with expressions their meanings relative to \possible worlds", here interpreted as machine states. These meanings lie in the semantic domains of a higher order typed intensional logic. The great advantage of this approach is that it preserves compositionality of the meaning function, even in \opaq...

The Syntax/Semantics Interface: Compositionality Issues

Computing Semantic Compositionality in Distributional Semantics

This article introduces and evaluates an approach to semantic compositionality in computational linguistics based on the combination of Distributional Semantics and supervised Machine Learning. In brief, distributional semantic spaces containing representations for complex constructions such as Adjective-Noun and Verb-Noun pairs, as well as for their constituent parts, are built. These represen...