Sense disambiguation of compound constituents. (arXiv:2204.00429v1 [cs.CL])

In distributional semantic accounts of the meaning of noun-noun compounds
(e.g. starfish, bank account, houseboat) the important role of constituent
polysemy remains largely unaddressed(cf. the meaning of star in starfish vs.
star cluster vs. star athlete). Instead of semantic vectors that average over
the different meanings of a constituent, disambiguated vectors of the
constituents would be needed in order to see what these more specific
constituent meanings contribute to the meaning of the compound as a whole. This
paper presents …

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