Symbolic, Distributed, and Distributional Representations for Natural Language Processing in the Era of Deep Learning : A Survey

Copyright © 2020 Ferrone and Zanzotto..

Natural language is inherently a discrete symbolic representation of human knowledge. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) and in natural language processing (NLP) seem to contradict the above intuition: discrete symbols are fading away, erased by vectors or tensors called distributed and distributional representations. However, there is a strict link between distributed/distributional representations and discrete symbols, being the first an approximation of the second. A clearer understanding of the strict link between distributed/distributional representations and symbols may certainly lead to radically new deep learning networks. In this paper we make a survey that aims to renew the link between symbolic representations and distributed/distributional representations. This is the right time to revitalize the area of interpreting how discrete symbols are represented inside neural networks.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in robotics and AI - 6(2019) vom: 22., Seite 153

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ferrone, Lorenzo [VerfasserIn]
Zanzotto, Fabio Massimo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Compositional distributional semantic models
Compositionality
Concatenative compositionality
Deep learning (DL)
Distributed representation
Journal Article
Natural language processing (NLP)
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 29.01.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/frobt.2019.00153

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM320629937