CSC 2517 -- Discrete Mathematical Models of Sentence Structure

Winter 2023

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Contact information

Instructor: Gerald Penn
Office: PT 283A (St. George campus)
Tel: 978-7390
Email: gpenn@cs.utoronto.ca
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Meeting times

Lectures: W 4-6, UC 087
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Presented Readings

 

Who
When
What
Where
Gerald Penn 11 January Intro and Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Gerald Penn 18 January Proof Nets Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 53, 2004,  pp. 274-295
Jinman Zhao and Huan Ling 25 January Structural Realization with GGNNs Proc. TextGraphs-15,  pp. 115-124, 2021
Kirill Lossev 25 January Monads for Natural Language Semantics Proc. ESSLLI student session,  pp. 285-298, 2001
Gerald Penn 1 February Weisfeiler-Lehman Isomorphisms
Huan Ling 8 February Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Cellular: CW Networks Proc. NeurIPS 2021
Frank Niu 15 February Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Topological: Message Passing Simplicial Networks Proc. ICML 2021
Jessi Stark 22 February Evaluating Distributional Models of Semantics for Syntactically Invariant Inference Proc. EACL 2012
Jinman Zhao and Xinyu Kang 15 March A Topological characterisation of Weisfeiler-Leman equivalence classes TAG-ML Workshop
Frank Niu and Sophie Liao 29 March On Characterizing the Capacity of Neural Networks using Algebraic Topology ICLR 2018 submission

Additional Readings for the Lectures


Title Author Publication Details
Speech and Language Processing D. Jurafsky & J. Martin 3rd ed., draft

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Tentative course outline

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Calendar of important course-related events
Date Event
Wed, 11 January First meeting
Mon, 23 January Last day to add course
Wed, 22 February FAS reading week: but we are meeting!
Mon, 27 February Last day to drop course
Tue, 14 March Paper proposals due
Wed, 22 March No meeting
Wed, 5 April Last meeting
Fri, 28 April Term papers/projects due

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Evaluation

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

Class presentation 30%
Term paper/project 70%

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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, 22 March, 2023
This web-page was adapted from the web-page for another course, created by Vassos Hadzilacos.