Minimum Description Length and Compositionality

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dc.creatorZadrozny, Wlodek
dc.date2000-01-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:15:49Z
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dc.descriptionWe present a non-vacuous definition of compositionality. It is based on the idea of combining the minimum description length principle with the original definition of compositionality (that is, that the meaning of the whole is a function of the meaning of the parts). The new definition is intuitive and allows us to distinguish between compositional and non-compositional semantics, and between idiomatic and non-idiomatic expressions. It is not ad hoc, since it does not make any references to non-intrinsic properties of meaning functions (like being a polynomial). Moreover, it allows us to compare different meaning functions with respect to how compositional they are. It bridges linguistic and corpus-based, statistical approaches to natural language understanding.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0001002
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0001002
dc.identifierH.Bunt and R.Muskens(Eds.) "Computing Meaning" Vol.1. Kluwer 1999. pp.113-128
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/30126
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligence
dc.subjectI.2.7
dc.titleMinimum Description Length and Compositionality
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