no code implementations • 16 Jun 2020 • Dorottya Demszky, László Kálmán, Dan Jurafsky, Beth Levin
We test the effect of lexical semantics on the ordering of verbs and their objects by grouping verbs into 11 semantic classes.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Yiwei Luo, Dan Jurafsky, Beth Levin
We introduce novel computational models for modeling semantic bleaching, a widespread category of change in which words become more abstract or lose elements of meaning, like the development of {``}arrive{''} from its earlier meaning {`}become at shore.