Recent Developments in Computational Semantics (SS 2011)

Topics for presentations and seminar papers

Word-Sense Disambiguation

General Background reading: McCarthy 2009

• Minimally supervised WSD: Yarowsky 1995
• Word-sense induction: Schütze 1998
• WSD and selectional preferences: McCarthy&Carroll 2003, Erk 2007
• Knowledge-rich WSD: Ponzetto&Navigli 2010

Similarity-based models of contextualization and inference

General background reading: Jurafsky&Martin Textbook, Ch. 20.7

• Basic similarity measures:Jiang&Conrath 1997, Lin 1998
• Acquisition of Paraphrases: Lin&Pantel 2001, Szpektor et al. 2004
• Acquisition of inference patterns: Bhagat et al. 2007, Pantel et al. 2007,Geffet&Dagan 2005
• Distributional semantics and contextualization: Mitchell&Lapata 2008, Erk&Pado 2008, Thater et al. 2010
• Exemplar-based approaches to contextualization: Reisinger&Mooney 2010, Erk&Pado 2010

Semantic Role Labelling

• Frame Labeling: Gildea&Jurafsky 2002
• PropBank: Palmer et al. 2005
• An advanced role labeller: Punyakanok et al. 2008

Automatic Acquisition of Script Information

• Chambers&Jurafsky 2008, Chambers&Jurafsky 2009, Regneri et al. 2010

Latent-variable models in lexical semantics

• Dinu&Lapata 2010, Li et al. 2010
• Yuret&Yatbaz 2010

Modelling Inference with Natural Logic

Background reading: J. van Benthem 2007, MacCartney&Manning 2007

• MacCartney 2009, Ch.5+6, Nairn et al. 2006

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