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Using dependency parsing for few-shot learning in distributional semantics

Stefania Preda and Guy Emerson, ACL-SRW 2022

A dependency parse of the sentence 'The severe conflagration which affected Troy on 10 May 1862 destroyed 507 buildings,' with arcs labeled det, amod, relcl, and nsubj.
Figure 1: A dependency parse, illustrating that context words connected by a dependency can be important for inferring meaning in a few-shot setting, such as “destroyed” for the rare word “conflagration”.