Semantics Of Natural Language Reading Group

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This is the wiki page for the Semantics of Natural Language reading group.

We meet every Monday from 15.30 to 16.30 in CSE 678. Our mailing list can be subscribed to (or unsubscribed from) at https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/sem-nl.

This group is intended to provide an overview of the current state of the art in compositional representations of natural language semantics with an emphasis on wide coverage. Below is a list of potential reading but it is in no way exhaustive or final. Please feel free to add to it.

Schedule:

Date Paper Authors Link Leader
6/18/12 A Survey of Computational Semantics: Representation, Inference and Knowledge in Wide-Coverage Text Understanding. Johan Bos http://www.let.rug.nl/bos/pubs/Bos2011Compass.pdf Tom Kwiatkowski
6/25/12 Minimal Recursion Semantics: An Introduction (Sections 1-4.2) and WikiWoods: Syntactico-Semantic Annotation for English Wikipedia. Copestake et al/Flickinger et al http://lingo.stanford.edu/sag/papers/copestake.pdf ; http://www.delph-in.net/wikiwoods/lrec10.pdf Emily M. Bender

Potential Reading:

  • Mehdi Hafezi Manshadi, James Allen, Mary Swift. Building a Corpus of Scope-Disambiguated English Text. 2011.
  • J. Bos. Towards a Large-Scale Formal Semantic Lexicon for Text Processing. 2009.
  • Bill MacCartney and Christopher D. Manning. An extended model of natural logic. 2009.
  • Mark Steedman. Surface-Compositional Scope-Alternation Without Existential Quantifiers. 2006.
  • Nissim Francez and Mark Steedman. Categorial Grammar and the Semantics of Contextual Prepositional Phrases. 2006.
  • Mark Steedman. The Productions of Time Draft tutorial notes about temporal semantics. 2005.
  • Johan Bos, Stephen Clark, James R. Curran, Julia Hockenmaier, Mark Steedman. Wide-Coverage Semantic Representations from a CCG Parser. 2004.
  • Ann Copestake. Robust Minimal Recursion Semantics. Unpublished draft, 2004/2006.