Therory Of Compositionality Flashcards
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Q
What is the principle of compositionally
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States that sentence meaning is compositional
The meaning of a linguistic expression is determined by the meaning if its component parts and the rules that are used to combine them.
:) meaning depends on individual words and syntactic rules
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Highly influential
Understand previous unheard sentences
Easy to compute meanings of complex senteces
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Problematic when using with words with polysemous meanings
Or different interpretations
