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Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture? by Alina Arseniev-Koehler is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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Measuring meaning is a central problem in cultural sociology and word embeddings may offer powerful new tools to do so. But like any tool, they build on and exert theoretical assumptions. In this paper, I theorize the ways in which word embeddings model three core premises of a structural linguistic theory of meaning: that meaning is coherent, relational, and may be analyzed as a static system. In certain ways, word embeddings are vulnerable to the enduring critiques of these premises. In other ways, word embeddings offer novel solutions to these critiques. More broadly, formalizing the study of meaning with word embeddings offers theoretical opportunities to clarify core concepts and debates in cultural sociology, such as the coherence of meaning. Just as network analysis specified the once vague notion of social relations, formalizing meaning with embeddings can push us to specify and reimagine meaning itself.
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- Author
- Alina Arseniev-Koehler
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences