Characterizing pure high-order entanglements in lexical semantic spaces via information geometry

Yuexian Hou*, Dawei Song

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

An emerging topic in Quantuam Interaction is the use of lexical semantic spaces, as Hilbert spaces, to capture the meaning of words. There has been some initial evidence that the phenomenon of quantum entanglement exists in a semantic space and can potentially play a crucial role in determining the embeded semantics. In this paper, we propose to consider pure high-order entanglements that cannot be reduced to the compositional effect of lower-order ones, as an indicator of high-level semantic entities. To characterize the intrinsic order of entanglements and distinguish pure high-order entanglements from lower-order ones, we develop a set of methods in the framework of Information Geometry. Based on the developed methods, we propose an expanded vector space model that involves context-sensitive high-order information and aims at characterizing high-level retrieval contexts. Some initial ideas on applying the proposed methods in query expansion and text classification are also presented.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)237-250
Number of pages14
JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5494
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Symposium on Quantum Interaction - QI 2009 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Interaction, QI 2009 - Saarbrucken, Germany
Duration: 25 Mar 200927 Mar 2009

Keywords

  • Extended vector model
  • Information geometry
  • Pure high-order entanglement
  • Semantic emergence

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