Syllabus


4 november 2003 kl. 13 (B. Gawronska)

Introductory meeting

       

11 november 2003, kl. 13-15 (E. Dura)

Semantics is about the content of utterances, pragmatics is about the communicative goal of utterances. Which NLP-applications do and which do not necessarily require semantic and/or pragmatic information?
-» Mitkov: chapters 28, 31
-» Assignment 1: Application outlines.

       

18 november 2003, kl. 13-15 (E. Dura)

The meanings of meaning. Meaning vs form. Logic in natural language. Compositionality.
-» Cruse: part 1, Allwood: pages 33-43 and 118-141
-» Assignment 2: Swedish terminology.

       

25 november 2003, kl. 13-15 (E. Dura)

More meanings than words. Paradigms and syntagms. Thesauri, semantic nets, ontologies. Meaning primitives. Generative lexicon.
-» Cruse: part 2, Mitkov: chapter 25.
-» Assignment 3: Word senses. Disambiguation.

       

2 december 2003, kl. 13-15 (E. Dura)

Grammatical semantics and pragmatical matters in NLP. Recapitulation and discussion of the examination.
-» Mitkov: chapters 5, 7.
-» Assignment 4: Case roles. Reference resolution.