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Semantic Composition Inspired by Quantum Measurement

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We represent the meaning of words with density operators learned from a large corpus of dependency-parsed English sentences in an unsupervised way. This generalizes vector-space semantics in a straightforward manner by allowing an arbitrary number of subspaces. Our lexical density operators encode syntactic and semantic information. These structures allow us to compose the meaning of a sentence from the meaning of its words, again without any supervision. This model is able to detect whether a pair of sentences constitutes a paraphrase. We also analyse the entanglement among syntactic relations within linguistic density operators.

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  1. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

    William Blacoe

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  1. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Harald Atmanspacher

  2. Universitätsspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Claudia Bergomi

  3. University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Thomas Filk

  4. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Kirsty Kitto

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Blacoe, W. (2015). Semantic Composition Inspired by Quantum Measurement. In: Atmanspacher, H., Bergomi, C., Filk, T., Kitto, K. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8951. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15931-7_4

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