Recent advances in processing negation

R Morante, E Blanco - Natural Language Engineering, 2021 - cambridge.org
Negation is a complex linguistic phenomenon present in all human languages. It can be
seen as an operator that transforms an expression into another expression whose meaning …

Decoding word embeddings with brain-based semantic features

E Chersoni, E Santus, CR Huang, A Lenci - Computational Linguistics, 2021 - arpi.unipi.it
Word embeddings are vectorial semantic representations built with either counting or
predicting techniques aimed at capturing shades of meaning from word co-occurrences …

Negation mitigates rather than inverts the neural representations of adjectives

A Zuanazzi, P Ripollés, WM Lin, L Gwilliams… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Combinatoric linguistic operations underpin human language processes, but how meaning
is composed and refined in the mind of the reader is not well understood. We address this …

Generalizing cross-document event coreference resolution across multiple corpora

M Bugert, N Reimers, I Gurevych - Computational Linguistics, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Cross-document event coreference resolution (CDCR) is an NLP task in which mentions of
events need to be identified and clustered throughout a collection of documents. CDCR …

Predicting the focus of negation: Model and error analysis

MM Hossain, K Hamilton, A Palmer… - Proceedings of the 58th …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
The focus of a negation is the set of tokens intended to be negated, and a key component for
revealing affirmative alternatives to negated utterances. In this paper, we experiment with …

Tracking the behavioral and neural dynamics of semantic representations through negation

A Zuanazzi, P Ripollés, WM Lin, L Gwilliams, JR King… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Combinatoric linguistic operations underpin human language processes, but how meaning
is composed and refined in the mind of the reader is not well understood. We address this …