Computation | |
Universal Dimensions of Meaning Derived from Semantic Relations among Words and Senses: Mereological Completeness |
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Alexei V. Samsonovich1  | |
关键词: semantic space; sentiment analysis; holonyms; meronyms; | |
DOI : 10.3390/computation2030061 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
A key to semantic analysis is a precise and practically useful definition of meaning that is general for all domains of knowledge. We previously introduced the notion of weak semantic map: a metric space allocating concepts along their most general (universal) semantic characteristics while at the same time ignoring other, domain-specific aspects of their meanings. Here we address questions of the number, quality, and mutual independence of the weak semantic dimensions. Specifically, we employ semantic relationships not previously used for weak semantic mapping, such as holonymy/meronymy (“is-part/member-of”), and we compare maps constructed from word senses to those constructed from words. We show that the “completeness” dimension derived from the holonym/meronym relation is independent of, and practically orthogonal to, the “abstractness” dimension derived from the hypernym-hyponym (“is-a”) relation, while both dimensions are orthogonal to the maps derived from synonymy and antonymy. Interestingly, the choice of using relations among words
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CC BY
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