Recent developments in computational semantics and discourse processing
We will start with a few sessions giving you an overview of the most important topics in computational discourse processing, and then move on to reading papers on semantics, and papers leveraging discourse information for various NLP tasks, which will be picked depending on the participants' interests.
See References page for readings associated with each topic.
Schedule
| Date | Topic(s) | Speaker(s) | Resources/assigned teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April | Organizational Meeting and introduction | Anne, Simon | Webber et al. 2012 (sections 1, 2 & 4) |
| 4 May | Presentation skills session | Anne | (depending on interest) |
| 11 May | Introduction to discourse processing | Anne | |
| 18 May | Discourse: Discourse Constraints for Document Compression | Anne | |
| 25 May | Discourse: Rhetorical Structure Theory & Parser (RST) | Anne | |
| 1 June | Discourse: Penn Discourse Treebank & Parser (PDTB) | Anne | |
| 8 June | Discourse: Coreference resolution | Simon | |
| 15 June | Discourse: Temporal Relation Processing | Anne | |
| 22 June | Semantics / Discourse | ||
| 29 June | Semantics / Discourse | ||
| 6 July | Semantics / Discourse | ||
| 13 July | Semantics / Discourse | ||
| 20 July | Semantics / Discourse | ||
| 27 July | Wrap-up session | Anne, Simon, Lilian |