@inproceedings{aguirre-celis-miikkulainen-2021-understanding,
title = "Understanding the Semantic Space: How Word Meanings Dynamically Adapt in the Context of a Sentence",
author = "Aguirre-Celis, Nora and
Miikkulainen, Risto",
editor = "Lewis, Martha and
Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science (SemSpace)",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Groningen, The Netherlands",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.semspace-1.1",
pages = "1--11",
abstract = "How do people understand the meaning of the word {``}small{''} when used to describe a mosquito, a church, or a planet? While humans have a remarkable ability to form meanings by combining existing concepts, modeling this process is challenging. This paper addresses that challenge through CEREBRA (Context-dEpendent meaning REpresentations in the BRAin) neural network model. CEREBRA characterizes how word meanings dynamically adapt in the context of a sentence by decomposing sentence fMRI into words and words into embodied brain-based semantic features. It demonstrates that words in different contexts have different representations and the word meaning changes in a way that is meaningful to human subjects. CEREBRA{'}s context-based representations can potentially be used to make NLP applications more human-like.",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[Understanding the Semantic Space: How Word Meanings Dynamically Adapt in the Context of a Sentence](https://aclanthology.org/2021.semspace-1.1) (Aguirre-Celis & Miikkulainen, SemSpace 2021)
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