Lecture 5: Lexical Relations & WordNet
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Lecture 5: Lexical Relations & WordNet
Prof. Ray Larson & Prof. Marc Davis
UC Berkeley SIMS
Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Fall 2003http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is202/f03/
SIMS 202:
Information Organization
and Retrieval
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Lecture Overview
• Review
• Lexical Relations
• WordNet
• Demo
• Discussion Questions
• Action Items for Next Time
Credit for some of the slides in this lecture goes to Marti Hearst and Warren Sack
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Lecture Overview
• Review
• Lexical Relations
• WordNet
• Demo
• Discussion Questions
• Action Items for Next Time
Credit for some of the slides in this lecture goes to Marti Hearst and Warren Sack
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Definition of AI
“... artificial intelligence [AI] is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by [humans]” (Minsky, 1963)
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The Goals of AI Are Not New
• Ancient Greece– Daedalus’ automata
• Judaism’s myth of the Golem• 18th century automata
– Singing, dancing, playing chess?
• Mechanical metaphors for mind– Clock– Telegraph/telephone network– Computer
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Some Areas of AI
• Knowledge representation• Programming languages• Natural language understanding• Speech understanding• Vision• Robotics• Planning• Machine learning• Expert systems• Qualitative simulation
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AI or IA?
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)– Make machines as smart as (or smarter than)
people
• Intelligence Amplification (IA)– Use machines to make people smarter
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Furnas: The Vocabulary Problem
• People use different words to describe the same things– “If one person assigns the name of an item,
other untutored people will fail to access it on 80 to 90 percent of their attempts.”
– “Simply stated, the data tell us there is no one good access term for most objects.”
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The Vocabulary Problem
• How is it that we come to understand each other?– Shared context– Dialogue
• How can machines come to understand what we say?– Shared context?– Dialogue?
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Vocabulary Problem Solutions?
• Furnas et al.– Make the user memorize precise system
meanings– Have the user and system interact to identify
the precise referent– Provide infinite aliases to objects
• Minsky and Lenat– Give the system “commonsense” so it can
understand what the user’s words can mean
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CYC
• Decades long effort to build a commonsense knowledge-base
• Storied past
• 100,000 basic concepts
• 1,000,000 assertions about the world
• The validity of Cyc’s assertions are context-dependent (default reasoning)
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Cyc Examples
• Cyc can find the match between a user's query for "pictures of strong, adventurous people" and an image whose caption reads simply "a man climbing a cliff"
• Cyc can notice if an annual salary and an hourly salary are inadvertently being added together in a spreadsheet
• Cyc can combine information from multiple databases to guess which physicians in practice together had been classmates in medical school
• When someone searches for "Bolivia" on the Web, Cyc knows not to offer a follow-up question like "Where can I get free Bolivia online?"
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Cyc Applications
• Applications currently available or in development – Integration of Heterogeneous Databases – Knowledge-Enhanced Retrieval of Captioned Information – Guided Integration of Structured Terminology (GIST) – Distributed AI – WWW Information Retrieval
• Potential applications – Online brokering of goods and services – "Smart" interfaces – Intelligent character simulation for games – Enhanced virtual reality – Improved machine translation – Improved speech recognition – Sophisticated user modeling – Semantic data mining
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Cyc’s Top-Level Ontology
• Fundamentals • Top Level • Time and Dates • Types of Predicates • Spatial Relations • Quantities • Mathematics • Contexts • Groups • "Doing" • Transformations • Changes Of State • Transfer Of
Possession • Movement • Parts of Objects
• Composition of Substances
• Agents • Organizations • Actors • Roles • Professions
• Emotion • Propositional
Attitudes • Social • Biology • Chemistry • Physiology • General Medicine
http://www.cyc.com/cyc-2-1/toc.html
• Materials• Waves • Devices • Construction
• Financial • Food • Clothing • Weather • Geography • Transportation • Information • Perception • Agreements • Linguistic Terms • Documentation
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Lecture Overview
• Review
• Lexical Relations
• WordNet
• Demo
• Discussion Questions
• Action Items for Next Time
Credit for some of the slides in this lecture goes to Marti Hearst and Warren Sack
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Syntax
• The syntax of a language is to be understood as a set of rules which accounts for the distribution of word forms throughout the sentences of a language
• These rules codify permissible combinations of classes of word forms
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Semantics
• Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning
• Two standard approaches to lexical semantics (cf., sentential semantics; and, logical semantics):– (1) compositional– (2) relational
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Lexical Semantics: Compositional Approach
• Compositional lexical semantics, introduced by Katz & Fodor (1963), analyzes the meaning of a word in much the same way a sentence is analyzed into semantic components. The semantic components of a word are not themselves considered to be words, but are abstract elements (semantic atoms) postulated in order to describe word meanings (semantic molecules) and to explain the semantic relations between words. For example, the representation of bachelor might be ANIMATE and HUMAN and MALE and ADULT and NEVER MARRIED. The representation of man might be ANIMATE and HUMAN and MALE and ADULT; because all the semantic components of man are included in the semantic components of bachelor, it can be inferred that bachelor man. In addition, there are implicational rules between semantic components, e.g. HUMAN ANIMATE, which also look very much like meaning postulates.– George Miller, “On Knowing a Word,” 1999
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Lexical Semantics: Relational Approach
• Relational lexical semantics was first introduced by Carnap (1956) in the form of meaning postulates, where each postulate stated a semantic relation between words. A meaning postulate might look something like dog animal (if x is a dog then x is an animal) or, adding logical constants, bachelor man and never married [if x is a bachelor then x is a man and not(x has married)] or tall not short [if x is tall then not(x is short)]. The meaning of a word was given, roughly, by the set of all meaning postulates in which it occurs.– George Miller, “On Knowing a Word,” 1999
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Pragmatics
• Deals with the relation between signs or linguistic expressions and their users
• Deixis (literally “pointing out”)– E.g., “I’ll be back in an hour” depends upon the time of the
utterance• Conversational implicature
– A: “Can you tell me the time?”– B: “Well, the milkman has come.” [I don’t know exactly, but
perhaps you can deduce it from some extra information I give you.]
• Presupposition– “Are you still such a bad driver?”
• Speech acts– Constatives vs. performatives– E.g., “I second the motion.”
• Conversational structure– E.g., turn-taking rules
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Language
• Language only hints at meaning
• Most meaning of text lies within our minds and common understanding– “How much is that doggy in the window?”
• How much: social system of barter and trade (not the size of the dog)
• “doggy” implies childlike, plaintive, probably cannot do the purchasing on their own
• “in the window” implies behind a store window, not really inside a window, requires notion of window shopping
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Semantics: The Meaning of Symbols
• Semantics versus Syntax– add(3,4)– 3 + 4– (different syntax, same meaning)
• Meaning versus Representation– What a person’s name is versus who they are
• A rose by any other name...
– What the computer program “looks like” versus what it actually does
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Semantics
• Semantics: assigning meanings to symbols and expressions– Usually involves defining:
• Objects• Properties of objects• Relations between objects
– More detailed versions include • Events• Time• Places• Measurements (quantities)
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The Role of Context
• The concept associated with the symbol “21” means different things in different contexts– Examples?
• The question “Is there any salt?”– Asked of a waiter at a restaurant– Asked of an environmental scientist at work
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What’s in a Sentence?
“A sentence is not a verbal snapshot or movie of an event. In framing an utterance, you have to abstract away from everything you know, or can picture, about a situation, and present a schematic version which conveys the essentials. In terms of grammatical marking, there is not enough time in the speech situation for any language to allow for the marking of everything which could possibly be significant to the message.”
Dan Slobin, in Language Acquisition: The state of the art, 1982
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Lexical Relations
• Conceptual relations link concepts– Goal of Artificial Intelligence
• Lexical relations link words– Goal of Linguistics
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Major Lexical Relations
• Synonymy
• Polysemy
• Metonymy
• Hyponymy/Hypernymy
• Meronymy/Holonymy
• Antonymy
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Synonymy
• Different ways of expressing related concepts• Examples
– cat, feline, Siamese cat
• Overlaps with basic and subordinate levels• Synonyms are almost never truly substitutable
– Used in different contexts– Have different implications
• This is a point of contention
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Polysemy
• Most words have more than one sense– Homonym: same sound and/or spelling, different
meaning (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym)
• bank (river)• bank (financial)
– Polysemy: different senses of same word (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy)
• That dog has floppy ears.• She has a good ear for jazz.• bank (financial) has several related senses
– the building, the institution, the notion of where money is stored
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Metonymy
• Use one aspect of something to stand for the whole– The building stands for the institution of the
bank.– Newscast: “The White House released new
figures today.”– Waitperson: “The ham sandwich spilled his
drink.”
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Hyponymy/Hyperonymy
• ISA relation• Related to Superordinate and Subordinate
level categories– hyponym(robin,bird)– hyponym(emu,bird)– hyponym(bird,animal)– hyperym(animal,bird)
• A is a hypernym of B if B is a type of A• A is a hyponym of B if A is a type of B
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Basic-Level Categories (Review)
• Brown 1958, 1965, Berlin et al., 1972, 1973• Folk biology:
– Unique beginner: plant, animal– Life form: tree, bush, flower– Generic name: pine, oak, maple, elm– Specific name: Ponderosa pine, white pine– Varietal name: Western Ponderosa pine
• No overlap between levels• Level 3 is basic
– Corresponds to genus– Folk biological categories correspond accurately to
scientific biological categories only at the basic level
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Psychologically Primary Levels
SUPERORDINATE animal furniture
BASIC LEVEL dog chair
SUBORDINATE terrier rocker
• Children take longer to learn superordinate
• Superordinate not associated with mental images or motor actions
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Meronymy/Holonymy
• Part/Whole relation– meronym(beak,bird)– meronym(bark,tree)– holonym(tree,bark)
• Transitive conceptually but not lexically– The knob is a part of the door.– The door is a part of the house.– ? The knob is a part of the house ?
• Holonyms are (approximately) the inverse of meronyms
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Antonymy
• Lexical opposites– antonym(large, small)– antonym(big, small)– antonym(big, little)– but not large, little
• Many antonymous relations can be reliably detected by looking for statistical correlations in large text collections. (Justeson & Katz 91)
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Thesauri and Lexical Relations
• Polysemy: same word, different senses of meaning– Slightly different concepts expressed similarly
• Synonyms: different words, related senses of meanings– Different ways to express similar concepts
• Thesauri help draw all these together• Thesauri also commonly define a set of relations
between terms that is similar to lexical relations– BT, NT, RT
• More on Thesauri next week…
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What is an Ontology?
• From Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate– A branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature
and relations of being– A particular theory about the nature of being or the
kinds of existence• More prosaically
– A carving up of the world’s meanings– Determine what things exist, but not how they inter-
relate• Related terms
– Taxonomy, dictionary, category structure• Commonly used now in CS literature to describe
structures that function as Thesauri
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Lecture Overview
• Review
• Lexical Relations
• WordNet
• Demo
• Discussion Questions
• Action Items for Next Time
Credit for some of the slides in this lecture goes to Marti Hearst and Warren Sack
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WordNet
• Started in 1985 by George Miller, students, and colleagues at the Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University– Miller also known as the author of the paper
“The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information” (1956)
• Can be downloaded for free:– www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
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Miller on WordNet
• “In terms of coverage, WordNet’s goals differ little from those of a good standard college-level dictionary, and the semantics of WordNet is based on the notion of word sense that lexicographers have traditionally used in writing dictionaries. It is in the organization of that information that WordNet aspires to innovation.”– (Miller, 1998, Chapter 1)
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Presuppositions of WordNet Project
• Separability hypothesis– The lexical component of language can be
separated and studied in its own right
• Patterning hypothesis– People have knowledge of the systematic
patterns and relations between word meanings
• Comprehensiveness hypothesis– Computational linguistics programs need a
store of lexical knowledge that is as extensive as that which people have
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WordNet: Size
POS Unique Synsets Strings
Noun 107930 74488 Verb 10806 12754 Adjective 21365 18523 Adverb 4583 3612 Totals 144684 109377
WordNet Uses “Synsets” – sets of synonymous terms
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Structure of WordNet
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Structure of WordNet
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Structure of WordNet
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Unique Beginners
• Entity, something– (anything having existence (living or nonliving))
• Psychological_feature– (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
• Abstraction– (a general concept formed by extracting common
features from specific examples) • State
– (the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state")
• Event– (something that happens at a given place and time)
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Unique Beginners
• Act, human_action, human_activity– (something that people do or cause to happen)
• Group, grouping– (any number of entities (members) considered as a
unit)
• Possession– (anything owned or possessed)
• Phenomenon– (any state or process known through the senses
rather than by intuition or reasoning)
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Lecture Overview
• Review
• Lexical Relations
• WordNet
• Demo
• Discussion Questions
• Action Items for Next Time
Credit for some of the slides in this lecture goes to Marti Hearst and Warren Sack
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WordNet Demo
• Available online (from Unix) if you wish to try it…– Login to irony and type “wn word” for any
word you are interested in– Demo…
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Lecture Overview
• Review
• Lexical Relations
• WordNet
• Demo
• Discussion Questions
• Action Items for Next Time
Credit for some of the slides in this lecture goes to Marti Hearst and Warren Sack
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Discussion Questions
• Joe Hall on Lexical Relations and WordNet– Which method of linguistic analysis do you
think will be more fruitful... the painstaking process involved with building WordNet or the relatively easy output afforded by Church et al.'s computational method that, however, requires much work to decipher the results?
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Discussion Questions
• Joe Hall on Lexical Relations and WordNet– What are the problems/advantages of using
the World Wide Web itself as a "corpus"? (If you were to incorporate the current digital copies of all newspapers, journals, etc. wouldn't you very quickly exceed the 15 Million words of the largest corpus in the Church article?)
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Discussion Questions
• Joe Hall on Lexical Relations and WordNet– With the diversity of dialects of the English
language, how much does this type of computational analysis get confused by phrases such as "What up?" (i.e., slang)? Aren't these some of the more interesting parts of language (i.e., how language evolves)?
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Lecture Overview
• Review
• Lexical Relations
• WordNet
• Demo
• Discussion Questions
• Action Items for Next Time
Credit for some of the slides in this lecture goes to Marti Hearst and Warren Sack
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Homework
• Read Chapters 3 and 5 of The Organization of Information (Textbook)
• Discussion Question volunteers?– Tu Tran– Hong Qu
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Next Time
• Introduction to Metadata