Search Results for author: Stephen McGregor

Found 5 papers, 0 papers with code

A Distributional Model of Affordances in Semantic Type Coercion

no code implementations WS 2019 Stephen McGregor, Elisabetta Jezek

We explore a novel application for interpreting semantic type coercions, motivated by insight into the role that perceptual affordances play in the selection of the semantic roles of artefactual nouns which are observed as arguments for verbs which would stereotypically select for objects of a different type.

Vocal Bursts Type Prediction

Words, Concepts, and the Geometry of Analogy

no code implementations4 Aug 2016 Stephen McGregor, Matthew Purver, Geraint Wiggins

This paper presents a geometric approach to the problem of modelling the relationship between words and concepts, focusing in particular on analogical phenomena in language and cognition.

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