Course pages 2011–12
Word Meaning and Discourse Understanding
Session 1: 7/10/2011. Background to lexical semantics and word senses. Handout. Coursework 1.
Reading:
- Cruse, chapter 6 (sense ambiguity tests)
- Cruse, chapter 3 (anomaly, semantic traits)
- Cruse, chapter 2 and 5 for terminology and some core concepts
Session 2: 14/10/2011. Word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithms. Handout.
Reading:
- Jurasfky and Martin, chapter 20.1-20.4.
- Navigli and Lapata (2010)
- Barzilay and Elhadad (1997).
Session 3: 21/10/2011. Semantic Spaces and Semantic Similarity. Handout.
Reading:
- Jurafsky and Martin, 20.7 (semantic spaces) and 23.1.1 and 23.1.2 (Vector Space Model).
- Manning, Raghavan, Schuetze (Introduction to Information Retrieval), Chapter 18 (LSI).
- Schütze (1998)
- Lin (1998)
- Pado and Lapata (2007)
- Griffiths, Steyvers, Tenenbaum (2007)
Session 4: 28/10/2011. The Semantics of Verbs. Handout. Selectional Restrictions, subcategorisation and thematic roles. FrameNet. Coursework 2.
Reading:
- Jurafsky and Martin, chapter 19.4
- Sun and Korhonen (2009)
- Gildea and Jurafsky (2002).
- Fillmore and Atkins (1992) Towards a Frame-Based Lexicon: The Semantics of RISK and its neighbors.
Session 5: 4/11/2011. Figurative Language and Sentiment. Handout.
Reading:
- Lapata and Lascarides (2003)
- Markert and Nissim (2002)
- Shutova et al. (2010).
- Cruse (1986), Lexical Semantics. Chapters 9 and 11.3
- Hatzivassiloglou and and McKeown (1997)
- Turney (2002).
Session 6: 11/11/2011. Coherence in Text. Handout. Coursework 3.
Reading:
Session 7: 18/11/2011. Coreference and Anaphora Resolution. Handout.
Reading:
- Jurafsky and Martin, ch. 21.3-21.8.
- Hobbs (1976)
- Grosz et al (1995)
Session 8: 25/11/2011. Discourse Models. Handout. Scanned List of RST Relations here
Reading:
- Jurafsky and Martin, ch. 21.5 (RST)
- Grosz and Sidner (1986)
- Teufel and Moens (2002)