Linguistic Inference and Textual Entailment (SS 2009)
Topics for presentations and seminar papers
Semantic Similarity
- Semantic similarity measures: Jiang&Conrath 1997, Lin 1998, Weeds&Weir 2003 (Background reading: Weeds&Weir 2005)
Word-Sense Disambiguation
- Supervised and minimally supervised WSD: Yarowsky 1995, Mihalcea&Moldovan 1999
- Unsupervised word-sense discrimination: Schütze 1998
- Graded sense distinctions: Erk&McCarthy 2009, Erk et al. 2009
Semantic Role Labelling
- The PropBank Framework: Palmer et al. 2005
- Robust Semantic Role labelling: Pradhan et al. 2008
- FrameNet and frame-based semantic analysis
Automatic Acquisition of Paraphrases and Inference Patterns
- Automatic Acquisition of Paraphrase patterns: Lin&Pantel 2001, Szpektor et al. 2004,
- Inference as Directional Similarity: Bhagat et al. 2007, Pantel et al. 2007,Geffet&Dagan 2005,Geffet&Dagan 2004
- Paraphrase acquisition for textual entailment
Automatic Acquisition of Script Information
- Acquiring script information from texts: Chambers&Jurafsky 2008, Chambers&Jurafsky 2009, Chklovski&Pantel 2004
- Acquiring script information from web experiments
Modelling Inference with Natural Logic
Background reading for all of the following topics: J. van Benthem 2007, MacCartney&Manning 2007
- Natural logic and entailment relations: B. MacCartney 2009, Ch.5
- Compositional entailment - General aspects: B. MacCartney 2009, Ch.6, except 6.3
- Compositional entailment - Factives and Implicatives: B. MacCartney 2009, Ch. 6.3, Nairn et al. 2006
Distributional Semantics and Compositionality
- Distributional semantics and compositionality: Mitchell&Lapata 2008, Erk&Pado 2008
- Syntax-sensitive contextualisation of meaning