How to make words with vectors: Phrase generation in distributional semantics
Georgiana Dinu, Marco Baroni · 2014
We introduce the problem of generation in distributional semantics: Given a distri-butional vector representing some mean-ing, how can we generate the phrase that best expresses that meaning? We mo-tivate this novel challenge on theoretical and practical grounds and propose a sim-ple data-driven approach to the estimation of generation functions. We test this in a monolingual scenario (paraphrase gen-eration) as well as in a cross-lingual set-ting (translation by synthesizing adjective-noun phrase vectors in English and gener-ating the equivalent expressions in Italian). 1