Modeling covert event retrieval in logical metonymy: probabilistic and distributional accounts

Logical Metonymy in a Distributional Model of Sentence Comprehension

In theoretical linguistics, logical metonymy is defined as the combination of an event-subcategorizing verb with an entity-denoting direct object (e.g., The author began the book), so that the interpretation of the VP re…

Comparing Probabilistic, Distributional and Transformer-Based Models on Logical Metonymy Interpretation

In linguistics and cognitive science, Logical metonymies are defined as type clashes between an event-selecting verb and an entity-denoting noun (e.g. The editor finished the article), which are typically interpreted by …

Logical metonymies and qualia structures: an annotated database of logical metonymies for German

Logical metonymies like ''''''``The author began the book'''''''' involve the interpretation of events that are not realized in the sentence (Covert events: -{\textgreater} ''''''``writing the book''''''''). The Generati…

Don't Invite BERT to Drink a Bottle: Modeling the Interpretation of Metonymies Using BERT and Distributional Representations

In this work, we carry out two experiments in order to assess the ability of BERT to capture the meaning shift associated with metonymic expressions. We test the model on a new dataset that is representative of the most …

Fitting, Not Clashing! A Distributional Semantic Model of Logical Metonymy