Recent Developments in Computational Semantics
(SS 2011; 2012 update will be available soon)

Seminar / Hauptseminar

Lecturer: Manfred Pinkal
Place: C7 2, Konferenzraum 2.11
Time: Mo, 10-12 (First meeting 18.04.2011)
Appropriate for: M.Sc. and advanced B.Sc. students

Overview

Due to the advance of data-intensive methods, semantics has continuously moved into the focus of language technology and computational linguistics research, during the last decade. In the seminar, we will look into central topics like

• Modeling semantic similarity
• Word-sense disambiguation and discrimination
• shallow semantic parsing, role labeling
• automatic acquisition of paraphrase and inference patterns
• automatic acquisition of script information

We will pay special attention to

• approaches aiming at the integration of compositional and distributional semantics
• the use of latent variables in computational semantics.

Topics and references are meant to give a first orientation. The topic list will be extended and refined in the beginning of the seminar, dependent on the size of the group and special interests of the participants.

Formalities

Degree	Credit Points / Leistungspunkte
M.Sc.	4 (Talk only), 7 (Talk + Paper)
B.Sc.	7 (Talk + Paper) Hauptseminar

Deadlines
Exam registration: 01.07.2011
Draft version of seminar paper: 15.09.2011
Final version of seminar paper: 15.10.2011

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