In Search of Meaning and Its Representations for Computational Linguistics

no code implementations • CLASP 2022 • Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Nikolai Ilinykh, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa

In this paper we examine different meaning representations that are commonly used in different natural language applications today and discuss their limits, both in terms of the aspects of the natural language meaning they are modelling and in terms of the aspects of the application for which they are used.

We went to look for meaning and all we got were these lousy representations: aspects of meaning representation for computational semantics

no code implementations • 10 Sep 2021 • Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Nikolai Ilinykh, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa

In this paper we examine different meaning representations that are commonly used in different natural language applications today and discuss their limits, both in terms of the aspects of the natural language meaning they are modelling and in terms of the aspects of the application for which they are used.

An Annotation Approach for Social and Referential Gaze in Dialogue

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Vidya Somashekarappa, Christine Howes, Asad Sayeed

This paper introduces an approach for annotating eye gaze considering both its social and the referential functions in multi-modal human-human dialogue.