词嵌入的理论基础和局限性:它们能捕捉到什么类型的含义?
1Department of Sociology, Purdue University.
Sociological methods & research
|November 18, 2024
概括
词嵌入提供了新的方法来衡量文化社会学中的意义,建立在结构性语言理论的基础上. 这项研究探讨了这些计算工具如何模拟意义,并解决了该领域长期存在的批评.
科学领域:
- 文化社会学 文化社会学
- 计算语言学 计算语言学
- 数字人文学科 数字人文学科
背景情况:
- 衡量意义是文化社会学的核心挑战.
- 传统方法在捕捉意义的复杂性方面面临局限性.
- 词嵌入呈现了一种新的计算方法来分析含义.
研究的目的:
- 理论化词语嵌入如何模拟结构性语言意义理论的核心前提.
- 检查词嵌入对意义批评所提供的漏洞和新解决方案.
- 探索将意义与嵌入形式化以推进文化社会学的潜力.
主要方法:
- 对词嵌入的含义建模的理论分析.
- 检查与结构语言理论相关的词嵌入.
- 词嵌入的功能与现有的意义批评的比较.
主要成果:
- 词嵌入模型的含义是连贯的,关系的和静态的.
- 他们容易受到这些前提的批评,但也提供了新的解决方案.
- 通过嵌入形式化意义,澄清了诸如意义连贯性之类的概念.
结论:
- 词嵌入在文化社会学中为研究意义提供了一个强大的,可正式化的工具.
- 这种方法可以确定和重新想象该领域的核心概念.
- 与社会关系的网络分析类似,嵌入可以促进意义的研究.
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