Jason Utt


2017

pdf bib
Contextual Characteristics of Concrete and Abstract Words
Diego Frassinelli | Daniela Naumann | Jason Utt | Sabine Schulte m Walde
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) — Short papers

2015

pdf bib
Dissecting the Practical Lexical Function Model for Compositional Distributional Semantics
Abhijeet Gupta | Jason Utt | Sebastian Padó
Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

2014

pdf bib
Polysemy Index for Nouns: an Experiment on Italian using the PAROLE SIMPLE CLIPS Lexical Database
Francesca Frontini | Valeria Quochi | Sebastian Padó | Monica Monachini | Jason Utt
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

An experiment is presented to induce a set of polysemous basic type alternations (such as Animal-Food, or Building-Institution) by deriving them from the sense alternations found in an existing lexical resource. The paper builds on previous work and applies those results to the Italian lexicon PAROLE SIMPLE CLIPS. The new results show how the set of frequent type alternations that can be induced from the lexicon is partly different from the set of polysemy relations selected and explicitely applied by lexicographers when building it. The analysis of mismatches shows that frequent type alternations do not always correpond to prototypical polysemy relations, nevertheless the proposed methodology represents a useful tool offered to lexicographers to systematically check for possible gaps in their resource.

pdf bib
Fuzzy V-Measure - An Evaluation Method for Cluster Analyses of Ambiguous Data
Jason Utt | Sylvia Springorum | Maximilian Köper | Sabine Schulte im Walde
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

This paper discusses an extension of the V-measure (Rosenberg and Hirschberg, 2007), an entropy-based cluster evaluation metric. While the original work focused on evaluating hard clusterings, we introduce the Fuzzy V-measure which can be used on data that is inherently ambiguous. We perform multiple analyses varying the sizes and ambiguity rates and show that while entropy-based measures in general tend to suffer when ambiguity increases, a measure with desirable properties can be derived from these in a straightforward manner.

pdf bib
Crosslingual and Multilingual Construction of Syntax-Based Vector Space Models
Jason Utt | Sebastian Padó
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 2

Syntax-based distributional models of lexical semantics provide a flexible and linguistically adequate representation of co-occurrence information. However, their construction requires large, accurately parsed corpora, which are unavailable for most languages. In this paper, we develop a number of methods to overcome this obstacle. We describe (a) a crosslingual approach that constructs a syntax-based model for a new language requiring only an English resource and a translation lexicon; and (b) multilingual approaches that combine crosslingual with monolingual information, subject to availability. We evaluate on two lexical semantic benchmarks in German and Croatian. We find that the models exhibit complementary profiles: crosslingual models yield higher accuracies while monolingual models provide better coverage. In addition, we show that simple multilingual models can successfully combine their strengths.

2013

pdf bib
Detecting Polysemy in Hard and Soft Cluster Analyses of German Preposition Vector Spaces
Sylvia Springorum | Sabine Schulte im Walde | Jason Utt
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

pdf bib
Regular Meaning Shifts in German Particle Verbs: A Case Study
Sylvia Springorum | Jason Utt | Sabine Schulte im Walde
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2013) – Long Papers

pdf bib
Fitting, Not Clashing! A Distributional Semantic Model of Logical Metonymy
Alessandra Zarcone | Alessandro Lenci | Sebastian Padó | Jason Utt
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2013) – Short Papers

pdf bib
The Curious Case of Metonymic Verbs: A Distributional Characterization
Jason Utt | Alessandro Lenci | Sebastian Padó | Alessandra Zarcone
Proceedings of the IWCS 2013 Workshop Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics

2012

pdf bib
Modeling covert event retrieval in logical metonymy: probabilistic and distributional accounts
Alessandra Zarcone | Jason Utt | Sebastian Padó
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2012)

pdf bib
Regular polysemy: A distributional model
Gemma Boleda | Sebastian Padó | Jason Utt
*SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics – Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012)

2011

pdf bib
Ontology-based Distinction between Polysemy and Homonymy
Jason Utt | Sebastian Padó
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011)

2009

pdf bib
A Graph-Theoretic Algorithm for Automatic Extension of Translation Lexicons
Beate Dorow | Florian Laws | Lukas Michelbacher | Christian Scheible | Jason Utt
Proceedings of the Workshop on Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics