Recent Developments in Computational Semantics
(SS 2010)
Seminar / Hauptseminar
Lecturer: Manfred Pinkal
Place: C7 2, Konferenzraum 2.11
Time: Mo, 10-12 (First meeting 19.04.2010)
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 computational linguistics research and language technology, in the last decade.
In the seminar, we will look into central topics like
- Word-sense disambiguation and discrimination (Schütze 1998)
- Modeling semantic similarity (Weeds&Weir 2003)
- Shallow semantic parsing, role labeling (Palmer et al. 2005)
- Automatic acquisition of paraphrase and inference patterns (Lin&Pantel 2001)
- Automatic acquisition of structured meaning information (frames and scripts: Chambers&Jurafsky 2008)
We will pay special attention to most recent developments that aim at the integration of concepts of conventional logic-based semantics with data-intensive distributional approaches:
- Natural logic and textual inference (MacCartney&Manning 2007, MacCartney 2009)
- Compositional distributional semantics (Erk&Pado 2008)
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)
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| B.Sc. | 7 (Talk + Paper)
Hauptseminar |
Deadline for exam registration: 02.07.2010
(this is a formal requirement only - but a necessary one - for students who do not write a term paper)
Deadline for submission of term paper: 01.10.2010