Introduction to Computational Semantics

Pre-lecture exercise 1 -- classify ``SHOWER'' examples

Lecture slides for Lecture 1: Introduction and word senses

Pre-lecture exercise 2 -- match synsets to gloss words

Lecture slides for Lecture 2: WSD algorithms

Pre-lecture exercise 3 -- "eating" verbs

Lecture slides for Lecture 3: Event structures; Download audio recording

Pre-lecture exercise 4 -- collocations

Lecture slides for Lecture 4: Compostionality and Multi word expressions

Pre-lecture exercise 5 -- complex tenses. Watch the video --- Back to -- --the future tense

Lecture slides for Lecture 5: From Concepts to Indices

Lecture slides for Lecture 6: Truth

Pre-lecture exercise 7 -- adjective ordering

Lecture slides for Lecture 7: Modifiers

ANNOUNCEMENT -- LECTURE 7 postponed due to sickness. Moved to -- -- Tuesday 22/2, 11am -12noon (directly after normal lecture)

Lecture slides for Lecture 8: Graph-based representations for semantics

Pre-lecture exercise 9 -- morphology and word order

Lecture slides for Lecture 9: Modeling syntactico-semantic composition

Lecture slides for Lecture 10: Meaning representations in natural language generation

Pre-lecture exercise 11 -- morphology and word order

Lecture slides for Lecture 11: Compositional distributional semantics

Pre-lecture exercise 12 -- Neologisms

Lecture slides for Lecture 12: Figurative Language

Pre-lecture exercise 13 -- Turing Test and reference letters (Pragmatics)

Lecture slides for Lecture 13: Select Pragmatic Phenomena

Lecture slides for Lecture 14: Scope

Pre-lecture 15 reading -- Arcs of Coherence

Pre-lecture exercise 15 -- Two strange usages (Discourse)

Lecture slides for Lecture 15: Focus and Information Structure

Pre-lecture 16 reading -- section 1--5 of ACL 2018 tutorial on neural semantic parsing

Lecture slides for Lecture 16: Task-specific semantic parsing