Semantic Compositionality (SC) Principle
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A Semantic Compositionality (SC) Principle is a Linguistic Principle that states the meaning of a syntactically complex linguistic unit is a function of meanings of its constituents and their combination rule.
- AKA: Principle of Compositionality, Frege's Principle.
- Context:
- It can be mathematically modeled by Semantic Compositionality Model.
- It can be automated by Semantic Compositionality Machine Learning Task.
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: George Boole, Semantics, Mathematical Logic, Gottlob Frege, Compositionality Algorithm, Componential Analysis, Formal Semantics, Initial Algebra, Referential Transparency.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_compositionality Retrieved:2021-5-23.
- In semantics, mathematical logic and related disciplines, the principle of compositionality is the principle that the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its constituent expressions and the rules used to combine them. This principle is also called Frege's principle, because Gottlob Frege is widely credited for the first modern formulation of it. The principle was never explicitly stated by Frege, [1] and it was arguably already assumed by George Boole [2] decades before Frege's work.
2020
- (Szabo, 2020) ⇒ Zoltan Gendler Szabo (2010). "Compositionality". In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
- QUOTE: The claim that $L$ is compositional is often taken to mean that the meaning of an arbitrary complex expression in $L$ is built up from the meanings of its constituents in $L$—call this the building principle for $L$. This is a fairly strong claim, at least if we take the building metaphor seriously. For then the meanings of complex expressions must themselves be complex entities whose structure mirrors that of the sentence; cf. Frege (1892, 1919). This presumably entails but is not entailed by local distributive cross-linguistic compositionality of meaning.
2019
- (Qi et al. , 2019) ⇒ Fanchao Qi, Junjie Huang, Chenghao Yang, Zhiyuan Liu, Xiao Chen, Qun Liu, and Maosong Sun (2019). "Modeling Semantic Compositionality with Sememe Knowledge". In: Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019) Volume 1: Long Papers.
- QUOTE: Semantic compositionality (SC) refers to the phenomenon that the meaning of a complex linguistic unit can be composed of the meanings of its constituents.
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Semantic compositionality (SC) is defined as the linguistic phenomenon that the meaning of a syntactically complex unit is a function of meanings of the complex unit’s constituents and their combination rule (...)
- QUOTE: Semantic compositionality (SC) refers to the phenomenon that the meaning of a complex linguistic unit can be composed of the meanings of its constituents.
2013
- (Socher et al., 2013) ⇒ Richard Socher, Alex Perelygin, Jean Wu, Jason Chuang, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew Y. Ng, Christopher Potts (2013). "Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank". In: Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013).
2012
- (Socher et al., 2012) ⇒ Richard Socher, Brody Huval, Christopher D. Manning, and Andrew Y. Ng (2012). "Semantic Compositionality through Recursive Matrix-Vector Spaces". In: Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2012).
1994
- (Pelletier, 1994) ⇒ Francis Jeffry Pelletier (1994). "The Principle of Semantic Compositionality". In: Topoi 13, 11–24 (1994). DOI:10.1007/BF00763644.
- QUOTE: The Principle of Semantic Compositionality (sometimes called ‘Frege's Principle’) is the principle that the meaning of a (syntactically complex) whole is a function only of the meanings of its (syntactic) parts together with the manner in which these parts were combined. This principle has been extremely influential throughout the history of formal semantics; it has had a tremendous impact upon modern linguistics ever since Montague Grammars became known; and it has more recently shown up as a guiding principle for a certain direction in cognitive science.