Topic List and Readings
Full list of topics and readings. Most
readings will be found here electronically. Readings not available electronically will be available for pickup from the AI office in Pratt 283.
Note: Topics and readings are subject to revision to fit the
background and interests of the class.
Overview of the list of topics:
1. The what and why of computational lexicons
2. Conceptual taxonomies: WordNet and other ontologies
3. Issues for taxonomies of verbs (predicates)
4. Representation of verb lexical information
5. Exploiting the interaction of verb properties in CL
6. Organization of predicate lexical information: classes and resources
7. Statistics associated with information in the lexicon
8. Co-compositionality of word meanings
9. Further extending our view of the lexicon: Constructions and MWEs
10. Multilinguality and multimodality