TY - GEN
T1 - Feeling is understanding
T2 - 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2015
AU - Iosif, Elias
AU - Potamianos, Alexandros
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Motivated by theories of language developmentwe investigate the contribution of affect to lexical semantics in the context of distributional semantic models (DSMs). The relationship between semantic and affective spaces is computationally modeled for the task of semantic similarity computation between words. It is shown that affective spaces contain salient information for lexical semantic tasks. We further investigate specific semantic relationships where affective information plays a prominent role. The relations between semantic similarity and opposition are studied in the framework of a binary classification problemapplied for the discrimination of synonyms and antonyms. For the case of antonyms, the use of affective features results in 33% relative improvement in classification accuracy compared to the use of semantic features.
AB - Motivated by theories of language developmentwe investigate the contribution of affect to lexical semantics in the context of distributional semantic models (DSMs). The relationship between semantic and affective spaces is computationally modeled for the task of semantic similarity computation between words. It is shown that affective spaces contain salient information for lexical semantic tasks. We further investigate specific semantic relationships where affective information plays a prominent role. The relations between semantic similarity and opposition are studied in the framework of a binary classification problemapplied for the discrimination of synonyms and antonyms. For the case of antonyms, the use of affective features results in 33% relative improvement in classification accuracy compared to the use of semantic features.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85035801849
T3 - IWCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics
SP - 162
EP - 172
BT - IWCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Y2 - 15 April 2015 through 17 April 2015
ER -