ERC Starting Grant · 2016
A distributional MOdel of Reference to Entities
When I asked my seven-year-old daughter "Who is the boy in your class who was also new in school last year, like you?", she instantly replied "Daniel", using the descriptive content in my utterance to identify an entity in the real world and refer to it. The ability to use language to refer to reality is crucial for humans, and yet it is very difficult to model. AMORE breaks new ground in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence by developing a model of linguistic reference to entities implemented as a computational system that can learn its own representations from data. This interdisciplinary project builds on two complementary semantic traditions: 1) Formal…
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