distributional semantics

Same same but different: Type and typicality in a distributional model of complement coercion
We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci
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Same same but different: Type and typicality in a distributional model of complement coercion
Event Knowledge and Models of Logical Metonymy Interpretation
During language understanding, people do not only rely on what they read or hear, but they also exploit implicit information. For …
Alessandra Zarcone
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Type and Thematic Fit in Logical Metonymy
We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci
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Logical metonymy: Disentangling object type and thematic fit
We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó
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Fitting, not clashing! A distributional semantic model of logical metonymy
Logical metonymy interpretation (e.g. begin the book → writing) has received wide attention in linguistics. Experimental results have …
Alessandra Zarcone, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó, Jason Utt
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The curious case of metonymic verbs: A distributional characterization
Logical metonymy combines an event-selecting verb with an entity-denoting noun (e.g., The writer began the novel), triggering a covert …
Jason Utt, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó, Alessandra Zarcone
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Logical Metonymy from Type Clash to Thematic Fit
Logical metonymy (The author began the book) has often been explained in terms of a type-clash between an eventsubcategorizing …
Alessandra Zarcone, Jason Utt, Alessandro Lenci
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Modeling covert event retrieval in logical metonymy: probabilistic and distributional accounts
Logical metonymies (The student finished the beer) represent a challenge to compositionality since they involve semantic content not …
Alessandra Zarcone, Jason Utt, Sebastian Padó
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