CSC 2519 -- Natural Language Semantics

Fall 2007

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Contact information

Instructor: Gerald Penn
Office: PT 396B (St. George campus)
Tel: 978-7390
Email: gpenn@cs.utoronto.ca
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Meeting times

Lectures: W 3-5, BA 4010
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Presented Readings

 


Who
When
What
Where
Lila Fontes 10 October Formal Features of Compositionality, W. Hodges Journal of Logic, Language and Information 10:7-28, 2001.
Mark McCartin-Lim 17 October
Combining Shallow and Deep NLP Methods for Recognizing Textual Entailment, J. Bos and K. Markert.
When Logical Inference Helps Determining Textual Entailment (and When it Doesn't), J. Bos and K. Markert.
1st Pascal RTE Challenge

2nd Pascal RTE Challenge
Timothy Fowler 24 October
Parsing the WSJ Using CCG and Log-Linear Models, S. Clark and J. R. Curran.
Wide-Coverage Semantic Representations from a CCG Parser, J. Bos, S. Clark, M. Steedman, J. R. Curran and J. Hockenmaier.
ACL 2004, pp. 103-110.

COLING 2004, pp.  1240-1246.
Yaroslav Riabinin 28 November
An Inference Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language, R. de Salvo Braz, R. Girju, V. Punyakanok, D. Roth and M. Sammons.
Knowledge Representation for Semantic Entailment and Question Answering, R. de Salvo Braz, R. Girju, V. Punyakanok, D. Roth and M. Sammons.
An Inference Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language, R. de Salvo Braz, R. Girju, V. Punyakanok, D. Roth and M. Sammons.
AAAI 2005.

IJCAI-05 Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Question Answering.


IJCAI 2005.

Mark McCartin-Lim 5 December Global Inference for Entity and Relation Identification via a Linear Programming Formulation, D. Roth and W. Yih. Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning, L. Getoor and B. Taskar, eds., MIT Press, 2007.
Timothy Fowler
 5 December
MPE and Partial Inversion in Lifted Probabilistic Variable Elimination, R. de Salvo Braz, E. Amir and D. Roth.
Lifted First-Order Probabilistic Inference, R. de Salvo Braz, E. Amir and D. Roth.

AAAI 2006.

Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning, L. Getoor and B. Taskar, eds., MIT Press, 2007.

Additional Readings for the Lectures
Title Author Publication Details
Logic, Language and Meaning, vols. 1 and 2 L.T.F. Gamut University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Type-Logical Semantics B. Carpenter MIT Press, 1997.
The PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge I. Dagan, O. Glickman, and B. Magnini 1st Pascal RTE Challenge
The Second PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge R. Bar-Haim, I. Dagan, B. Dolan, L. Ferro, D. Giampiccolo, B. Magnini and I. Szpektor 2nd Pascal RTE Challenge

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Tentative course outline

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Calendar of important course-related events
Date Event
Wed, 12 September First lecture
Fri, 5 October Last day to add course
Fri, 2 November Last day to drop course
Wed, 5 December Last lecture
Wed, 19 December Term papers/projects due

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Evaluation

Your final mark will be determined by a term paper/project, and a presentation of one or more papers in class.  The relative weights of these components towards the final mark are shown in the table below:
 


Class presentation 20%
Term paper/project 80%

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Announcements

In this space, you will find announcements related to the course. Please check this space at least weekly. Back to the index

Gerald Penn, 28 November, 2007
This web-page was adapted from the web-page for another course, created by Vassos Hadzilacos.