2520  The Computational Lexicon:  Topic List  

 

   January 7:         The what and why of computational lexicons

      Readings:  None

 

     January 14:    Conceptual taxonomies:  WordNet and other ontologies

      Required reading:

                                      i.      [Ben]  Rosario, Hearst, & Fillmore, 2002, “The Descent of Hierarchy, and Selection in Relation Semantics” (ACL-02)

                                    ii.      [SS]  Clark & Weir, 2001, “Class-Based Probability Estimation Using a Semantic Hierarchy”  (NAACL-01) [or journal version]

     Background reading:

                                      i.      Miller et al, 1993, “Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database” (WordNet 5 paper technical report, pages 1-9)

                                    ii.      Miller, 1993, “Nouns in WordNet:  A Lexical Inheritance System” (WordNet 5 paper technical report, pages 10-25)

 

     January 21:    Issues for taxonomies of verbs (predicates)

      Required reading:

                                      i.      [SS]  Palmer, 2000, “Consistent Criteria for Sense Distinctions” (Computers and the Humanities, SENSEVAL98: Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems, 34:1-2)

                                    ii.      [Yun]  Fellbaum, 1993, “English Verbs as a Semantic Net” (WordNet 5 paper technical report, pages 40-61)

 

     January 28:    Representation of verb lexical information

      Required reading:

                                      i.      [SS]  Rappaport Hovav & Levin, 1998, “Building Verb Meanings” [selected passages] (in The Projection of Arguments: Lexical and Compositional Factors, Butt & Geuder, Eds., pages 97-134)

 

     February 4:    Cognitive aspects of verb lexical information

      Required reading:

                                    i.      [Afra]  Koenig, Bienvenue, & Mauner, 2002, “Class Specificity and the Lexical Encoding of Participant Information” (Brain & Language 81, pages 224-235)

                                  ii.      [Uli]  Resnik & Diab, 2000, “Measuring Verb Similarity” (CogSci 2000)

 

     February 11:    Exploiting the interaction of verb properties in CL

       Required reading:

                                      i.      [Bob]  Dorr et al., 1998, “A Thematic Hierarchy for Efficient Generation from Lexical Conceptual Structure” (AMTA-98, pages 333-343)

                                    ii.      [Jane]  Korhonen & Preiss, 2003, “Improving Subcategorization Acquisition Using Word Sense Disambiguation” (ACL-03)

 

     February 18:    Reading Week

 

     February 25:    Organization of predicate lexical information: classes and resources

      Required readings:

                                      i.      [SS]  Levin, 1993, English Verb Classes and Alternations, Chapter 1

                                    ii.      [Afsaneh]  Baker & Ruppenhofer, 2002, “FrameNet’s Frames versus Levin’s Verb Classes” (28th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society)

 

     March 3:     Statistics associated with information in the lexicon

      Required reading:

                                      i.      [Vivian]  Argaman & Pearlmutter, 2002, “Lexical Semantics as a Basis for Argument Structure Frequency Biases” (Merlo & Stevenson volume)

                                    ii.      [Bob]  Roland & Jurafsky, 2002, “Verb Sense and Verb Subcategorization Probabilities”(Merlo & Stevenson volume)

 

     March 10:     Co-compositionality of word meanings

      Required reading:

                                      i.      [Vivian]  Pustejovsky, 1998, “The Semantics of Lexical Underspecification”(Folia Linguistica, XXXII:3-4)

                                    ii.      [Afsaneh]  Lapata & Lascarides, 2003, “A Probabilistic Account of Logical Metonymy” (Computational Linguistics, 29:2, pages 263-317)

 

     March 17:     Further extending our view of the lexicon: Constructions and MWEs

      Required reading:

                                      i.      [Afra]  Goldberg, 1999, “The Emergence of the Semantics of Argument Structure Constructions”  (in The Emergence of Language, MacWhinney, Ed.)

                                    ii.      [Ryan]  Sag et al., 2002, “Multiword Expressions: A Pain in the Neck for NLP” (CICLING 2002)

 

     March 24:     Processing Multiword Expressions

      Required reading:

                                  i.      [Jane]  McCarthy et al., 2003, “Detecting a Continuum of Compositionality in Phrasal Verbs”  (Workshop on Multiword Expressions at ACL-03)

                                  ii.      [Ryan]  Melamed, 1997, “Automatic Discovery of Non-Compositional Compounds in Parallel Data”  (EMNLP 97)

 

 March 31:     Multilinguality and multimodality

      Required readings:

                                    i.      [SS]  Wachsmuth et al., 2003, “Towards a Framework for Learning Structured Shape Models from Text-Annotated Images”  (Workshop on Learning Word Meaning from Non-Linguistic Data at NAACL-03)

                                  ii.      [Yun]  Bonawitz et al., 2003, “An Architecture for Word Learning using Bidirectional Multimodal Structural Alignment”  (Workshop on Learning Word Meaning from Non-Linguistic Data at NAACL-03)

 

 April 7:     Final Discussions  [and Nina -- research demo]