Getting ready to leave for #iclc16 in Düsseldorf, here a small teaser for my talk on Tuesday 14:45 on the #affix rivalry between -ity and -ness in #English:
Why to some adjectives take -ity (insular -> insularity), while others take -ness (red -> redness)? Many factors have been considered, I use #distributionalSemantics to explore the role of the adjective's meaning. Mapping the vectors on a two dimensional space with t-SNE, a dimensionality reduction technique, the resulting visualization shows that adjective meaning might indeed be a highly relevant factor. For example, even for adjectives with the same ending -ive, the bases of those taking -ity (e.g. narrativity) and those taking -ness (distinctiveness) fall into two clear clusters.
Looking forward to seeing some of you there :)
#wordformation

Last #NLP chapter of our #ISE2023 lecture last week was on distributional semantics and word embeddings. Of course, Wittgenstein had to be mentioned...

#lecture #distributionalsemantics #wittgenstein #stablediffusionart #creativeAI

@fizise @KIT_Karlsruhe

I somehow just learned about semantic folding
Still trying to learn more about it, but what's really messing with my head is that word embeddings are matrices. Are there any interesting connections to be made between this approach and things like DisCoCat?

#NLP #DistributionalSemantics #DisCoCat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_folding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisCoCat