TY - GEN
T1 - Logical metonymy in a distributional model of sentence comprehension
AU - Chersoni, Emmanuele
AU - Lenci, Alessandro
AU - Blache, Philippe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - In theoretical linguistics, logical metonymy is defined as the combination of an event-subcategorizing verb with an entity-denoting direct object (e.g., The author began the book), so that the interpretation of the VP requires the retrieval of a covert event (e.g., writing). Psycholinguistic studies have revealed extra processing costs for logical metonymy, a phenomenon generally explained with the introduction of new semantic structure. In this paper, we present a general distributional model for sentence comprehension inspired by the Memory, Unification and Control model by Hagoort (2013, 2016). We show that our distributional framework can account for the extra processing costs of logical metonymy and can identify the covert event in a classification task.
AB - In theoretical linguistics, logical metonymy is defined as the combination of an event-subcategorizing verb with an entity-denoting direct object (e.g., The author began the book), so that the interpretation of the VP requires the retrieval of a covert event (e.g., writing). Psycholinguistic studies have revealed extra processing costs for logical metonymy, a phenomenon generally explained with the introduction of new semantic structure. In this paper, we present a general distributional model for sentence comprehension inspired by the Memory, Unification and Control model by Hagoort (2013, 2016). We show that our distributional framework can account for the extra processing costs of logical metonymy and can identify the covert event in a classification task.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85036616144
U2 - 10.18653/v1/s17-1021
DO - 10.18653/v1/s17-1021
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85036616144
T3 - *SEM 2017 - 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings
SP - 168
EP - 177
BT - Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017)
A2 - Ide, Nancy
A2 - Herbelot, Aurélie
A2 - Màrquez, Lluís
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, StarSEM 2017, co-located with ACL 2017
Y2 - 3 August 2017 through 4 August 2017
ER -