{"product_id":"the-field-of-vector-semantics-refers-to-the-study-of-representing-and-understanding-the-meaning-of-words-and-phrases-using-mathematical-vectors-von-peter-jones","title":"The field of vector semantics refers to the study of representing and understanding the meaning of words and phrases using mathematical vectors","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a direct continuation of (Kornai, 2019), but unlike its predecessor, it is no\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elonger a textbook. The earlier volume, henceforth abbreviated S19, mostly covered material\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat is well known in the field, whereas the current volume is a research monograph,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edominated by the author's own research centering on the 4lang system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eS19 attempted to cater to students of four disciplines, linguistics; computer science;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecognitive science; and philosophy. As Hinrich Schütze wrote at the time: \"This textbook\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edistinguishes itself from other books on semantics by its interdisciplinarity: it presents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe perspectives of linguistics, computer science, philosophy and cognitive science. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexpect big changes in the field in coming years, so that a broad coverage of foundations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis the right approach to equipping students with the knowledge they need to tackle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esemantics now and in the future.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe big changes were actually already under way, in no small part due to Schütze,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1993, who took the fundamental step in modeling word meaning by vectors in ordinary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuclidean space. S19:2.7 discusses some of the mathematical underpinnings. This\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ematerial is now standard, so much so that the main natural language processing (NLP)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etextbook, Jurafsky and Martin (2022) is already incorporating it in its new edition (our\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereferences will be to this new version). But for now, vectorial semantics has relatively\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efew contact points with mainstream linguistic semantics, so little that the most comprehensive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(five volumes) contemporary summary, Gutzmann et al. (2021), has not devoted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea single chapter to the subject. Sixty years ago, McCarthy (1963) urged:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMathematical linguists are making a serious mistake in their concentration on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esyntax and, even more specially, on the grammar of natural languages. It is even\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore important to develop a mathematical understanding and a formalization of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe kinds of information conveyed in natural language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781835208342\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781835208342","offer_id":46983265976645,"sku":"9781835208342","price":36.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/products\/79258f10-6f5f-4b01-b98c-8382a9a5a325.jpg?v=1694579495","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-field-of-vector-semantics-refers-to-the-study-of-representing-and-understanding-the-meaning-of-words-and-phrases-using-mathematical-vectors-von-peter-jones","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}