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"text": "A prominent approach for representing the meaning of a word in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is to treat it as a numerical vector that codes the pattern of co-occurrence of that word with other expressions in a large corpus of language (Sahlgren, 2006; Turney and Pantel, 2010) . This approach to semantics (sometimes called distributional semantics) scales well to large lexicons and does not require words to be manually disambiguated (Sch\u00fctze, 1997) . Until recently, however, this method had been almost exclusively limited to the level of single content words (nouns, adjectives, verbs) , and had not directly addressed the problem of compositionality (Frege, 1892; Montague, 1970; Partee, 2004) , the crucial property of natural language which allows speakers to derive the meaning of a complex linguistic constituent from the meaning of its immediate syntactic subconstituents.",
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"text": "Several recent proposals have strived to extend distributional semantics with a component that also generates vectors for complex linguistic constituents, using compositional operations in the vector space (Baroni and Zamparelli, 2010; Guevara, 2010; Mitchell and Lapata, 2010; Grefenstette and Sadrzadeh, 2011; Socher et al., 2012) . All of these approaches construct distributional representations for novel phrases starting from the corpusderived vectors for their lexical constituents and exploiting the geometric quality of the representation. Such methods are able to capture complex semantic information of adjective-noun (AN) phrases, such as characterizing modification (Boleda et al., 2012; Boleda et al., 2013) , and can detect semantic deviance in novel phrases (Vecchi et al., 2011) . Furthermore, these methods are naturally recursive: they can derive a representation not only for, e.g., red car, but also for new red car, fast new red car, etc. This aspect is appealing since trying to extract meaningful representations for all recursive phrases directly from a corpus will result in a problem of sparsity, since most large phrases will never occur in any finite sample.",
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"text": "Once we start seriously looking into recursive modification, however, the issue of modifier ordering restrictions naturally arises. Such restrictions have often been discussed in the theoretical linguistic literature (Sproat and Shih, 1990; Crisma, 1991; Scott, 2002) , and have become one of the key in-gredients of the 'cartographic' approach to syntax (Cinque, 2002) . In this paradigm, the ordering is derived by assigning semantically different classes of modifiers to the specifiers of distinct functional projections, whose sequence is hard-wired. While it is accepted that in different languages movement can lead to a principled rearrangement of the linear order of the modifiers (Cinque, 2010; Steddy and Samek-Lodovici, 2011) , one key assumption of the cartographic literature is that exactly one intonationally unmarked order for stacked adjectives should be possible in languages like English. The possibility of alternative orders, when discussed at all, is attributed to the presence of idioms (high American building, but American high officer), to asyndetic conjunctive meanings (e.g. new creative idea parsed as [new & creative] idea, rather than [new [creative idea]]), or to semantic category ambiguity for any adjective which appears in different orders (see Cinque (2004) for discussion).",
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"text": "All AANs that did not meet either condition were excluded from our semantic space vocabulary. The preserved set resulted in 1,438 AANs: 621 flexible order and 817 rigid order. Note that there are almost as many flexible as rigid order cases; this speaks against the idea that free order is a marginal phenomenon, due to occasional ambiguities that reassign the adjective to a different semantic class. The existence of freely ordered stacked adjectives is a robust phenomenon, which needs to be addressed. Semantic vector construction For each of the items in our vocabulary, we first build 10Kdimensional vectors by recording the item's sentence-internal co-occurrence with the top 10K most frequent content lemmas (nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs) in the corpus. We built a rank of these co-occurrence counts, and excluded as stop words from the dimensions any element of any POS whose rank was from 0 to 300. The raw co-occurrence counts were then transformed into (positive) Pointwise Mutual Information (pPMI) scores (Church and Hanks, 1990) . Next, we reduce the full co-occurrence matrix to 300 dimensions applying the Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) operation (Lin, 2007) . We did not tune the semantic vector construction parameters, since we found them to work best in a number of independent earlier experiments. Corpus-extracted vectors (corp) were computed for the ANs and for the flexible order and attested rigid order AANs, and then mapped onto the 300dimension NMF-reduced semantic space. As a sanity check, the first row of Table 1 reports the correlation between the AN phrase similarity ratings collected in Mitchell and Lapata (2010) and the cosines of corpus-extracted vectors in our space, for the same ANs. For the AAN vectors, which are sparser, we used human judgements to build a reliable subset to serve as our gold standard, as detailed in Section 2.4.",
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