Distributional semantics provides multidimensional, graded, empirically induced word
representations that successfully capture many aspects of meaning in natural languages, as …

Distributional semantics is a usage-based model of meaning, based on the assumption that
the statistical distribution of linguistic items in context plays a key role in characterizing their …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

Abstract Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) aims at making explicit the semantics of a word
in context by identifying the most suitable meaning from a predefined sense inventory …

Abstract Machine learning about language can be improved by supplying it with specific
knowledge and sources of external information. We present here a new version of the linked …

Existing 3D scene understanding methods are heavily focused on 3D semantic and instance
segmentation. However identifying objects and their parts only constitutes an intermediate …

This volume focuses on the interplay between grammatical and pragmatic factors in the
comprehension of lexically communicated meaning. It uses a case-study, modality, in order …

Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change
based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the …

A landmark account of the neurobiological basis of language—arguing that species-specific
brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Language makes …