Papers by Paolo Pedinotti
Did the Cat Drink the Coffee? Challenging Transformers with Generalized Event Knowledge (2021.starsem-1)
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Paolo Pedinotti, Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache
| Challenge: | Prior work has explored the ability of computational models to predict word semantic fit with a given predicate. |
| Approach: | They compare Transformers Language Models to SDM to assess their performance . they found that TLMs do not capture important aspects of event knowledge . people can discriminate between typical and atypical events, they say . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models can achieve comparable performance to SDM, but they lack important aspects of event knowledge. |
Don’t Invite BERT to Drink a Bottle: Modeling the Interpretation of Metonymies Using BERT and Distributional Representations (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | a recent study has shown that metonymy is a productive and systematic process . linguistic and psycholinguistic studies support the idea that metnomic interpretations are based on lexical ambiguity . |
| Approach: | They compare BERT to a generalized event knowledge model to capture the meaning shift associated with metonymy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is good at predicting the meaning of metonymic expressions, the authors say . they show that the model can capture the meaning shift associated with metonymy . |