Recent Developments in Computational Semantics (SS 2012)
Topics for presentations and seminar papers
Distributional models of semantic similarity
Background reading: Turney&Pantel 2010- Distributional semantics and contextualization: Mitchell&Lapata 2008, Erk&Pado 2008, Thater et al. 2010
- Acquisition of Paraphrases and Inference Patterns: Lin&Pantel 2001, Pantel et al. 2007, Bhagat et al. 2007 (Szpektor et al. 2004, Geffet&Dagan 2005)
- Topic Models for contextualization: Dinu&Lapata 2010, Dinu 2011
- Exemplar-based approaches: Reisinger&Mooney 2010, Erk&Pado 2010
- Integrating visual information in distributional models: Feng&Lapata 2010, Bruni et al. 2011
Word-Sense Disambiguation
General Background reading: McCarthy 2009- Knowledge-based WSD: Mihalcea 2007, Ponzetto&Navigli 2010
- Knowledge-lean WSD: Li et al. 2010, Thater et al. 2011
Semantic Role Labelling
- Supervised SRL for FrameNet and PropBank: Gildea&Jurafsky 2002, Palmer et al. 2005
- Unsupervised Role Labeling: Lang&Lapata 2011, 2011a, Titov&Klementiev 2011
Automatic Acquisition of Script Information
- Chambers&Jurafsky 2008, Chambers&Jurafsky 2009, Regneri et al. 2010, Regneri et al. 2011