94 - Decompositional Semantics, with Aaron White
In this episode, Aaron White tells us about the decompositional semantics initiative (Decomp), an attempt to re-think the prototypical approach to semantic representation and annotation. The basic idea is to decompose complex semantic classes such as \u2018agent\u2019 and \u2018patient\u2019 into simpler semantic properties such as \u2018causation\u2019 and \u2018volition\u2019, while embracing the uncertainty inherent in language by allowing annotators to choose answers such as \u2018probably\u2019 or \u2018probably not\u2019. In order to scale the collection of labeled data, each property is annotated by asking crowd workers intuitive questions about phrases in a given sentence.\n\nAaron White's homepage: http://aaronstevenwhite.io/\nDecomp initiative page: http://decomp.io/