Christopher Potts +> Selected recent talks
- Christopher Potts. 2013. Conversational implicature: interacting with grammar, UCLA Linguistics, May 17
- My assessment of the debate between interactional and grammatical theories of (scalar) conversational implicature.
- Slides
- Christopher Potts. 2012. Relevance and pragmatic enrichment in a task-oriented dialogue corpus. WCCFL 30, UC Santa Cruz, April 13.
- Describes the publicly-available Cards corpus (version 2) and some pilot experiments with it.
- The Cards Corpus, the slideshow, and code for working with the corpus
- The resulting paper (which is very different from the slideshow)
- Christopher Potts. 2012. Montague semantics. Guest lecture in Symbolic Systems 100, Stanford, April 26
- This is my attempt to describe and motivate formal semantics in just over an hour to people who know a lot of technical stuff but have not studied semantics.
- Christopher Potts. 2012. Extracting social meaning and sentiment. NASSLLI 2012, UT Austin, June 18-22.
- Lecture series on doing sentiment analysis from a linguist's perspective. This is a more focused and research-oriented countepart to the tutorial below.
- Course website
- Christopher Potts. 2011. Sentiment Analysis Tutorial. Sentiment Analysis Symposium, San Francisco, Nov 8-9.
- Interactive website for my practical introduction to building effective sentiment analysis systems.
- Tutorial website
- Christopher Potts. 2011. Developing adjective scales from user-supplied textual metadata. NSF Workshop on Restructuring Adjectives in WordNet. Arlington,VA, Sep 30-Oct 1.
- Develops and evaluates methods for using naturally occurring metadata (star ratings on service and product reviews) to inform WordNet annotators in constructing modifier scales.
- Slides, data, and documentation
- Christopher Potts. 2011. The emergent expressivity of functional morphemes. Workshop on the Prosody–Discourse Interface. University of Salford, Sep 12-14.
- Summarizes the work I've done with colleagues in finding expressive meaning in seemingly mundane functional elements (pronouns, negation, demonstratives).
- Slides
- Associated data and lexicon browsing tools
- Christopher Potts. 2011. Computational Pragmatics. LSA Institute, Boulder, CO, July 8 - August 2.
- Lecture series on on using computational resources (corpora, algorithms, etc.) to explore pragmatic phenomena.
- Course website
- Christopher Potts. 2008. The dynamics of apposition. Chris Barker's NYU Linguistics seminar on dynamics, Feb 25.
- Seeks to intergrate my multidimensional approach to appositives with non-monotonic dynamic semantics.
- Handout
- Interactive demo