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    "pk": 26428,
    "title": "Grounded Distributional Semantics for Abstract Words",
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    "abstract": "Since Harnad (1990) pointed out the symbol grounding prob-lem, cognitive science research has demonstrated that ground-ing in perceptual or sensorimotor experience is crucial to lan-guage. Recent embodied cognition theories have argued thatlanguage is more important for grounding abstract than con-crete words; abstract words are grounded via language. Dis-tributional semantics has recently addressed the embodied na-ture of language and proposed multimodal semantic models.However, these models are not cognitively plausible becausethey do not address the recent embodiment view of abstractconcepts. Therefore, we propose a novel multimodal distribu-tional semantics in which abstract words are represented indi-rectly through grounded representations of their semanticallyrelated concrete words. A simulation experiment demonstratedthat the proposed model achieved better performance in com-puting the word similarity than other multimodal or text-baseddistributional models. This finding suggests that the indirectembodiment view is plausible and contributes to the improve-ment of multimodal distributional semantics.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Katsumi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Takano",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The University of Electro-Communications1-5-1",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Akira",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Utsumi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The University of Electro-Communications1-5-1",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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