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Speaker: Dr. Alessandro Maisto - University of Salerno

Abstract: Distributional Semantics (DS) models are based on the idea that two words that appear in similar contexts have similar meanings. The so-called Distributional Hypothesis, formulated by Harris in 1954, represents the theoretical base for the majority of DS models. Nevertheless, a significant part of those models ignores the subsequent works of Harris. He specifies that only a syntactic analysis permits  a more precise formulation of the neighborhoods involved: the arguments and the operators.  In this speech, we present the state of the art of DS models and study in deep the Harris theories about the syntactic-semantic interface.

Short bio: Alessandro Maisto is a Research Fellow at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences of the University of Salerno since August 2019. He obtained a Master's Degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Salerno and a Master in Artificial Intelligence from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. His interests revolve around Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics, having dealt with Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Question Answering, and Automatic Classification.

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