Analogies in Complex Verb Meaning Shifts: the Effect of Affect in Semantic Similarity Models

Maximilian Köper, Sabine Schulte im Walde


Abstract
We present a computational model to detect and distinguish analogies in meaning shifts between German base and complex verbs. In contrast to corpus-based studies, a novel dataset demonstrates that “regular” shifts represent the smallest class. Classification experiments relying on a standard similarity model successfully distinguish between four types of shifts, with verb classes boosting the performance, and affective features for abstractness, emotion and sentiment representing the most salient indicators.
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N18-2024
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
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June
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2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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150–156
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10.18653/v1/N18-2024
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Maximilian Köper and Sabine Schulte im Walde. 2018. Analogies in Complex Verb Meaning Shifts: the Effect of Affect in Semantic Similarity Models. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), pages 150–156, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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