Geometry of Compositionality

Report on segmentation of trajectories into the underlying primitives and syntactic rules for their compositionality based on differential geometry approaches

Compositionality And Multiword Expressions: Six Of One, Half A Dozen Of The Other?

In this talk, I will investigate the relationship between compositionality and multiword expressions, as part of which I will outline different approaches for formalising the notion of compositionality. I will then briefly review computational methods that have been proposed for modelling compositionality, and applications thereof. Finally, I will discuss possible future directions for modellin...

Movement Timing and Invariance Arise from Several Geometries

Human movements show several prominent features; movement duration is nearly independent of movement size (the isochrony principle), instantaneous speed depends on movement curvature (captured by the 2/3 power law), and complex movements are composed of simpler elements (movement compositionality). No existing theory can successfully account for all of these features, and the nature of the unde...

Does Compositionality Entail Complexity ?

The view that propositions are mereologically complex structured entities is the regnant paradigm in the philosophy of language and linguistics. As Steven Schiffer says, “Virtually every propositionalist accepts [compositionality] and rejects unstructured propositions”, and even the “new” theories of propositions defended by Peter Hanks, Jeffrey King, Scott Soames, and Jeff Speaks take proposit...

Minimum Description Length and Compositionality

In [12] we have shown that the standard de nition of compositionality is formally vacuous; that is, any semantics can be easily encoded as a compositional semantics. We have also shown that when compositional semantics is required to be "systematic", it is possible to introduce a non-vacuous concept of compositionality. However, a technical de nition of systematicity was not given in that paper...