Lexical And Vector Semantics Flashcards
Semantics
Linguistic or logical study of meaning
Lexical Semantics
Is the linguistic study of word meaning
Word Lemma
Dictionary form of a word
Word Senses
A word can represent multiple meanings or concepts
Word Sense Disambiguation
A method to understand the meaning of a word in a specific context
Wordform
Is a specific form of lemma, sing is a lemma, sing, sung and sang are all word forms
Synonyms
Words whose sense is identical but are different words
Word Similarity
Is where two or more words have similar relationships but are not necessarily synonyms
Word Relatedness or Association
Words that share common connection such as context, but are not similar.
E.g, tea and cup
Semantic Field
Set of related words from a domain
Topic models
Can learn automatically associations between words
Semantic Frame
A set of words including perspectives or participants of a particular event
How can semantic frames change?
They can change from perspective
What is sentiment analysis?
Labelling positive or negative meanings to words and sentences
What is Representational Learning?
The automated learning of useful representations of text
What are Vector Semantics?
The use of embedding to represent word meaning