Remodelling complement coercion interpretation

To Coerce or Not to Coerce: A Corpus-based Exploration of Some Complement Coercion Verbs in Chinese

Measure More, Question More: Experimental Studies on Transformer-based Language Models and Complement Coercion

Transformer-based language models have shown strong performance on an array of natural language understanding tasks. However, the question of how these models react to implicit meaning has been largely unexplored. We inv…

The Extraordinary Failure of Complement Coercion Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing has eased and scaled up the collection of linguistic annotation in recent years. In this work, we follow known methodologies of collecting labeled data for the complement coercion phenomenon. These are cons…

A Distributional Model of Affordances in Semantic Type Coercion

We explore a novel application for interpreting semantic type coercions, motivated by insight into the role that perceptual affordances play in the selection of the semantic roles of artefactual nouns which are observed …

Governing equations of tissue modelling and remodelling: A unified generalised description of surface and bulk balance

Several biological tissues undergo changes in their geometry and in their bulk material properties by modelling and remodelling processes. Modelling synthesises tissue in some regions and removes tissue in others. Remode…