Course material 2010–11
Syntax and Semantics of Natural Language
Principal lecturers: Prof Ted Briscoe, Dr Stephen Clark
Taken by: MPhil ACS
Syllabus
Stephen Clark's Lectures:
Lecture 1: Introduction to Categorial Grammar
Lecture 2: CCG -- Beyond Function Application
Lecture 3: CCG -- More Combinatory Rules
Lecture 4: CCG Applied to Real Text
Lecture 5: Creating a Treebank for CCG
Lecture 6: Maximum Entropy Tagging
Lecture 7: CCG Supertagging
Lecture 8: Statistical Parsing Models for CCG
JHU Tutorial Lectures on Parsing with CCG
See also the video lecture on statistical parsing with CCG
Ted Briscoe's Handouts:
Handout 1: Introduction to Formal Semantics for Natural Language
Handout 2: Compositional
Semantics for CCG / GCG
Handout 3 (distributed in class): Generalized
Quantifiers and Scope Underspecification
Handout 4: Underspecified
Semantic Composition
Handout 5: Inference and
Word Meaning
Assessed Assignments: