Course pages 2014–15

Lexical Semantics

Session 1: Background to lexical semantics and word senses. Handout.

Reading:

• Cruse (2000), chapter 6 and Cruse (1986), chapter 3 (sense ambiguity tests; most relevant is Cruse (1986) ch. 3.4)
• Cruse (2000), chapter 3 (anomaly, semantic traits)
• Cruse (2000), chapter 2 and 5 for terminology and some core concepts

Session 2: Word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithms. Handout.

Reading:

• Jurasfky and Martin, chapter 20.1-20.4. .

Session 3: Lexical Relations. Handout.

Reading:

• Navigli and Lapata (2010)

Reading (optional, very detailed!):

• Miller et al. (1991) -- classic paper on WN, over 80 pages!
• Cruse (1984), Lexical Semantics, Chapters 4.1-4.6 (Hyponymy, Compatibility)
• Cruse (1984), Chapter 5.2 (Lexical Hierarchies)
• Cruse (1984), Chapter 6.1-6.3 (Taxonomies)
• Cruse (1984), Chapter 7 (Meronymies)

Session 4: 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 5: The Semantics of Verbs. Handout.

Reading:

• Jurafsky and Martin, chapter 19.4
• Sun and Korhonen (2009)
• Gildea and Jurafsky (2002). (we didn't get to it in lectures)
• Fillmore and Atkins (1992) Towards a Frame-Based Lexicon: The Semantics of RISK and its neighbors.

Session 6: Figurative Language. Handout.

Reading:

• Lapata and Lascarides (2003)
• Markert and Nissim (2002)
• Shutova et al. (2010).
• Cruse (1986), Lexical Semantics. Chapter 2.7, 2.9, 2.10 (idioms and dead metaphor)

Session 7: Antonymy and sentiment detection. Handout.

Reading:

• Cruse (1986), Lexical Semantics. Chapters 9 and 11.3
• Hatzivassiloglou and and McKeown (1997)
• Turney (2002).

Session 8: Applications based on lexical semantics.