Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes

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