Prediction and Semantic Association

Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Steyvers

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Abstract

We explore the consequences of viewing semantic association as the result of attempting to predict the concepts likely to arise in a particular context. We argue that the success of existing accounts of semantic representation comes as a result of indirectly addressing this problem, and show that a closer correspondence to human data can be obtained by taking a probabilistic approach that explicitly models the generative structure of language.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationNIPS 2002
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
EditorsSuzanna Becker, Sebastian Thrun, Klaus Obermayer
PublisherMIT Press Journals
Pages11-18
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)0262025507, 9780262025508
StatePublished - 2002
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2002 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: Dec 9 2002Dec 14 2002

Publication series

NameNIPS 2002: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2002
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period12/9/0212/14/02

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems

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