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All of us: cs224u-win0910-staff @ lists.stanford.edu | ||||||||||||
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TuTh 3:15-4:30pm | ||||||||||||
| Location |
Cummings Art Room 4 (click for map) | ||||||||||||
| Catalog Description | Machine understanding of human language. Computational semantics (determination of sense, event structure, thematic role, time, aspect, synonymy/meronymy, causation, compositional semantics, treatment of scopal operators), and computational pragmatics and discourse (coherence relations, anaphora resolution, information packaging, generation). Theoretical issues, online resources, and relevance to applications including question answering, summarization, and textual inference. Prerequisites: one of LINGUIST 180, CS 224N,S; and knowledge of logic (LINGUIST 130A or B, CS157, or PHIL159) | ||||||||||||
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Date |
HW Due |
Who |
Topic and Readings |
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Jan 5 |
Dan Lec 1 (pptx) Lec 1 (pdf) |
History
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PART I: Lexical Semantics | ||||
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Jan 7 |
Data HW 1 | Dan Lec 2 (pptx) Lec 2 (pdf) |
Lexical Relations: WordNet, Synonymy, Hyponymy
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Jan 12 |
Word Sense Disambiguation
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Jan 14 |
Data HW 2 | Dan Lec 4 (pptx) Lec 4 (pdf) |
Background on Parsing
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| 3 |
Jan 19 |
Dan Lec 5 (pptx) Lec 5 (pdf) |
Semantic/Thematic Roles
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| 3 |
Jan 21 |
Data HW 3 | Guest Lecturer Chris Potts
Lec 6 (pdf) |
Sentiment Analysis
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| 4 |
Jan 26 |
Dan Lec 7 (pptx) Lec 7 (pdf) |
Relation Extraction
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Jan 28 |
Data HW 4
Submit (email all 3 of us) list of 5 papers for lit review |
Bill Lec 8 (ppt) Lec 8 (pdf) |
Learning Relations from the Web
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| PART II: Discourse | ||||
| 5 |
Feb 2 |
Data HW 5
| Dan |
Lec 9 (pptx) Lec 9 (pdf)
| Coherence
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| 5 |
Feb 4 |
Lit Review due |
Dan Lec 10 (pptx) Lec 10 (pdf) |
Anaphora and Coreference
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| PART III: Computational Formal Semantics | ||||
| 6 |
Feb 9 |
Prog HW 1
submission instructions |
Bill |
Building Semantic Representations: Lambda calculus
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| 6 |
Feb 11 |
Data HW 6| Patrick Pantel |
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Practical Language Acquisition
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| 7 |
Feb 16 |
Bill |
Scope Ambiguity and Underspecified Representations
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| 7 |
Feb 18 |
Adam |
Grounded Language Acquisition
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| 8 |
Feb 23 |
Ron Kaplan |
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| 8 |
Feb 25 |
Bill |
Learning to Map to Logical Forms for First order inference
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| 9 |
Mar 2 |
Cleo Condoravdi |
Textual Inference
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| 9 |
Mar 4 |
Bill | Paraphrase
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| PART IV: Projects | ||||
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Mar 9 |
Project Presentations | ||
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Mar 11 |
Project Presentations | ||
| Mar 15 |
Final Project due noon | |||