TY - GEN EP - 182 Y1 - 2021/02/08/ AV - public SP - 168 TI - Categorical vector space semantics for lambek calculus with a relevant modality (extended abstract) N1 - This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ UR - https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~eptcs/content.cgi?ACT2020 PB - EPTCS ID - discovery10122601 N2 - We develop a categorical compositional distributional semantics for Lambek Calculus with a Relevant Modality, !L ? , which has a limited version of the contraction and permutation rules. The categorical part of the semantics is a monoidal biclosed category with a coalgebra modality as defined on Differential Categories. We instantiate this category to finite dimensional vector spaces and linear maps via ?quantisation? functors and work with three concrete interpretations of the coalgebra modality. We apply the model to construct categorical and concrete semantic interpretations for the motivating example of !L ? : the derivation of a phrase with a parasitic gap. The effectiveness of the concrete interpretations are evaluated via a disambiguation task, on an extension of a sentence disambiguation dataset to parasitic gap phrases, using BERT, Word2Vec, and FastText vectors and Relational tensors A1 - McPheat, L A1 - Sadrzadeh, M A1 - Wazni, H A1 - Wijnholds, G CY - Cambridge, MA, USA ER -