Finite Atomized Semilattices

Abstract: We show that every finite semilattice can be represented as an atomized semilattice, an algebraic structure with additional elements (atoms) that extend the semilattice's partial order. Each atom maps to one subdirectly irreducible component, and the set of atoms forms a hypergraph that fully defines the semilattice. An atomization always exists and is unique up to "redundant atoms". Atomized semilattices are representations that can be used as computational tools for building semilattice models from sentences, as well as building its subalgebras and products. Atomized semilattices can be applied to machine learning and to the study of semantic embeddings into algebras with idempotent operators.