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%T A Method for Studying Semantic Construal in Grammatical Constructions with Interpretable Contextual Embedding Spaces
%A Chronis, Gabriella
%A Mahowald, Kyle
%A Erk, Katrin
%Y Rogers, Anna
%Y Boyd-Graber, Jordan
%Y Okazaki, Naoaki
%S Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2023
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Toronto, Canada
%F chronis-etal-2023-method
%X We study semantic construal in grammatical constructions using large language models. First, we project contextual word embeddings into three interpretable semantic spaces, each defined by a different set of psycholinguistic feature norms. We validate these interpretable spaces and then use them to automatically derive semantic characterizations of lexical items in two grammatical constructions: nouns in subject or object position within the same sentence, and the AANN construction (e.g., ‘a beautiful three days’). We show that a word in subject position is interpreted as more agentive than the very same word in object position, and that the nouns in the AANN construction are interpreted as more measurement-like than when in the canonical alternation. Our method can probe the distributional meaning of syntactic constructions at a templatic level, abstracted away from specific lexemes.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.14
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.14
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.14
%P 242-261

Markdown (Informal)

[A Method for Studying Semantic Construal in Grammatical Constructions with Interpretable Contextual Embedding Spaces](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.14) (Chronis et al., ACL 2023)

• A Method for Studying Semantic Construal in Grammatical Constructions with Interpretable Contextual Embedding Spaces (Chronis et al., ACL 2023)

ACL

• Gabriella Chronis, Kyle Mahowald, and Katrin Erk. 2023. A Method for Studying Semantic Construal in Grammatical Constructions with Interpretable Contextual Embedding Spaces. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 242–261, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.