Recent Developments in Computational Semantics
(SS 2012)

Seminar / Hauptseminar

Lecturer: Manfred Pinkal
Place: C7 2, Konferenzraum 2.11
Time: Di, 14-16 (First meeting 24.04.2012)
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

• Similarity Modeling in distrubutional semantics
• Word-sense disambiguation and discrimination
• Semantic role labeling
• Acquisition of paraphrases, inference patterns and script information

In this semester, we will pay special attention to

• Generative approaches using latent variables
• Processing of temporal information in texts
• Grounding of distributional meaning in the (visual) world

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: 01.09.2011
Final version of seminar paper: 01.10.2011

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