Computer Laboratory

Course material 2010–11

Lexical Semantics and Discourse Processing

Principal lecturer: Dr Simone Teufel
Taken by: MPhil ACS
Syllabus
Lecture Notes:
Lecture 1 (21/1): Introduction to Lexical Semantics Reading: Cruse, chapters 1+2
Lecture 2 (26/1): Word Senses ; Reading: Cruse, chapter 3. Homework. BNC contexts for interest; shower; line.
Lecture 3 (28/1): Lexicon-based and Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Reading: Jurafsky and Martin, chapter 20 (partial)
Lecture 4 (2/2): (Semi-) Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation. Reading: Yarowsky (1995) (or Jurafsky and Martin, chapter 20) and Navigli and Lapata (2010)
Lecture 5 (4/2): Antonymy, Semantic Orientation and Sentiment. Reading: Cruse, chapter 9 and 11.3 and Hatzivassiloglou and McKeown, ACL-97 and Turney, ACL-02. Homework.
Lecture 6 (9/2): Semantic Spaces. Reading: Jurafsky and Martin, chapter 20.7 and Lin (1998) ACL/COLING Automatic Retrieval and Clustering of Similar words
Lecture 7 (11/2): Verb Classes and Subcategorisation. Reading: J and M chapter 19.4 and Lin and Korhonen (2009)
Lecture 8 (16/2): Frame Semantics and Semantic Role Labelling. Reading: J and M chapter 19.4. Homework: RISK sentences
Lecture 9 (18/2): Figurative Language. Reading: Lapata and Lascarides, CL 2003; Markert and Nissim, ACL-02; Shutova, Lin and Korhonen COLING 2010
Lecture 10 (23/2): Models of Discourse Structure. Reading: Hearst 1997, Computational Linguistics (TextTiling)
Lecture 11 (25/2): Lexical Coherence. Reading: Barzilay and Elhadad 1997 (ACL Summarisation WS); Barzilay and Lapata 2005 (ACL)
Lecture 12 (2/3): Anaphora Resolution and Coreference Resolution.
Lecture 13 (4/3): Discourse Theories (Centering, Grosz and Sidner).
Lecture 14 (9/3): Rhetorical Structure Theory. Reading: Jurafsky and Martin, ch. 21.5
Lecture 15 (10/3): Discourse Structure in Science. Note: change of date -- now Thursday 10/3; 11am
Lecture 16 (16/3): Applications.