# Compositional Operators in Distributional Semantics

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5327 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1401.5327/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 21 Jan 2014.

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- [Montague semantics and modifier consistency measurement in neural language models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.04310/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This survey presents in some detail the main advances that have been recently taking place in Computational Linguistics towards the unification of the two prominent semantic paradigms: the compositional formal semantics view and the distributional models of meaning based on vector spaces. After an introduction to these two approaches, I review the most important models that aim to provide compositionality in distributional semantics. Then I proceed and present in more detail a particular framework by Coecke, Sadrzadeh and Clark (2010) based on the abstract mathematical setting of category theory, as a more complete example capable to demonstrate the diversity of techniques and scientific disciplines that this kind of research can draw from. This paper concludes with a discussion about important open issues that need to be addressed by the researchers in the future.