Springboard Capstone Project (NLP/NLU)
It is all about the cognitive leap: what does it mean to suddenly understand something and how humans connect the dots. When I learn new things (a new for me field of knowledge) I examine it as follows:
- What is it about? – Of course, in relations to things I know
- What is it like? – Is it similar in structure and/or behavior to things I know
- How is it different? – How is it special, what are its own laws and structures
And so metaphors appear to me as an extremely helpful tool for step 2: grasping certain features of a new domain in terms a well-known domain.
The purpose of this research is creating a model trained on large corpus of structurally rich data (I start with Wikipedia), which gets input like “having an argument” and produces an output “is like fighting a battle”. The result will be based on similarities in the domains' structure (dependencies) and behavior of their subjects (verbs).