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Introduction
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Semantic Representations in NLP Applications - Pundit
Martha Palmer, Deborah Dahl, Rebecca [Schiffman] Passonneau, Lynette
Hirschman. Marcia Linebarger, John Dowding. (1986),
Recovering implicit information, ACL-1986.
- FrameNet
Fillmore et al 2001 "Building a large lexical databank which provides deep
semantics"
Available at:
FrameNet Fillmore, C.J. 1977 Scenes-and-Frames Semantics in Fundamental Studies in
Computer Science: Linguistics Structures Processing, Ed. Antonio Zampolli,
pp. 55-81 paper on this page .
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Semantic Representations in NLP Applications - recent
HLT-NAACL 2003 ACL Anthology Web Page
W03-0902:Schubert L, Tong M. "Extracting and Evaluating General World Knowledge from the
Brown Corpus" in Proceedings of the NLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop.
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Text Meaning
W03-0901:Clark P, Harrison P., and J. Thomson "A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Text Meaning Processing", in Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Text Meaning. slides on this page
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Module 1. Conceptual Representations
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Wierzbicka, Anna, Cups and Mugs: Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis,The Austrailian Journal of Linguistics, 4:2, pp. 205-255, 1984.
Cathy 'cups and mugs' cartoon
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Schank, Roger, Identification of Conceptualizations Underlying Natural Language, Computer Models of Thought and Language, editors, Schank and Colby, W.H. Freeman and Co.,, pp. 187-247, 1973.
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Talmy, Leonard, Lexicalization Patterns, semantic structure in lexical forms, In Language Typology and Syntactic Description,Vol. III, ed. Timothy Shopen, Cambridge University Press, pp. 57-149, 1985.
paper
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Module 2. Semantic Roles
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Reinhart, Tanya, The Theta System: An Overview, Theoretical Linguistics 28(3), p.229-290, 2002.
paper
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Jackendoff, R.S. 1976 Towards an Explanatory Semantic Representation, Linguistic Inquiry, 7:1, pp. 89-150. paper
Second half paper
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Guest Lecture
- Walter Kintsch, "From association to analogy: Expanding the scope of LSA"
paper
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Module 2. Semantic Roles, cont.
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Fillmore, C. J. 1968 "The Case for Case" in E. Bach and R.T. Harms, eds.
Universals in Linguistic Theory, 1-88. New York: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston. Section 3. paper
Fillmore, Charles J. and Atkins, B. T. S. (1998): FrameNet and lexicographic relevance, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Granada, Spain.(The quality of the print may be compromised, as the paper was scanned; as such, it is also a very large file.) paper on this page
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Levin, B. and Rappaport, M., Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface, Linguistic Inquiry, paper, and contextual material
Levin, B. English Verb Classes: A Preliminary Classification Introduction,MIT Press, pp. 1-23, 1990., paper
Rappaport M. and B.Levin 1998 "Building Verb Meanings" in Butt, Geuder,
eds. The Projection of Arguments: Lexical and Compositional
Factors, CSLI Publications paper
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Dowty D.R 1991 Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection. Language
67: 547-619 sections 1-7 paper
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Module 3. Representing Motion Verbs
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Slobin, D.I. (2004) "The Many Ways to Search for a Frog: Linguistic
Typology and the Expression of Motion Events." In S. Stroemqvist and
L. Verhoeven (eds). Relating Events in Narrative: Typological and
Contextual Perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
paper on this page,
and the story
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Bowerman, Melissa and Choi, Soonja (2001) Shaping meanings for
language: universal and language-specific in the acquisition of
spatial semantic categories. In M. Bowerman and S. C. Levinson (Eds)
Language acquisition and conceptual development,
(pp. 475-511). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
paper,
'Subtle distinctions' cartoon
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Module 5. The lexicon in NLP applications
- Selected readings from Fellbaum,et al., WordNet: Introduction, Nouns and Verbs
link
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Module 4. Event Semantics
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Davidson D. 1967. "The Logical Form of Action Sentences" Reprinted in Davidson
D: Essays on Actions and Events, Oxford University Press
(1980) paper
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Parsons T. 1990 Events in Semantics of English . MIT Press, Boston
paper
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Module 6. Semantic Annotation - ACL 2004 Tutorial
- PropBank
Martha Palmer, Dan Gildea, Paul Kingsbury, The Proposition Bank:
An Annotated Corpus of Semantic Roles,
draft of paper submitted to Computational Linguistics, December, 2003.
paper
Baker & Ruppenhofer 2002 "FrameNet's Frames and Levin's Verb Classes"
Available at:
FrameNet
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Module 5. The lexicon in NLP Representations, cont.
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Dorr, Bonnie, Eduard Hovy and Lori Levin,(2004)
Machine Translation: Interlingual Methods , Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics 2nd edition" ms. 939, Brown, Keith (ed.).
Dorr, Bonnie J. and Clare R. Voss, (1996),
A Multi-Level Approach to Interlingual
MT: Defining the Interface between Representational Languages,
International Journal of Expert Systems, 9:1.
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Karin Kipper and Martha Palmer,(2000),
Representation of Actions as an Interlingua,
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Applied Interlinguas,
held in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL 2000.
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Module 5. The lexicon in NLP applications, cont.
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Pustejovsky J 1991, The Generative Lexicon, ComputationaI Linguistics, Volume 17, Number 4, December.
Paper
- Event Structure and TimeBank
Pustejovsky, J., Castaqo, J., Ingria, R., Saurm, R., Gaizauskas, R.,
Setzer, A. and Katz, G. TimeML: Robust Specification of Event and
Temporal Expressions in Text. In Proceedings of the Fifth International
Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-5), 2003
paper
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BACK TO THE STADIUM - 11/22 |
Project Summaries
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IN THE STADIUM - 11/29 |
Module 5. The lexicon in NLP applications, cont.
- P88-1012: Jerry R. Hobbs; Mark Stickel; Paul Martin; Douglas Edwards
Interpretation as Abduction, ACL-88, 1988.
Paper
- Extended WordNet
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IN THE STADIUM - 12/1, 12/6, 12/8 |
Module 7. Additional Layers
- Coreference:
Joel R. Tetreault.
A Corpus-Based Evaluation of Centering and Pronoun Resolution,
Computational Linguistics, Volume 27, Number 4, December 2001
paper
- Discourse Annotation:
Miltsakaki, Eleni, Prasad, Rashmi, Joshi, Aravind and Webber, Bonnie. (2004).
The Penn Discourse TreeBank. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and
Evaluation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
paper
Carlson, Lynn, Marcu, Daniel, and Okurowski, Mary Ellen. (2001). Building a
discourse-tagged corpus in the framework of rhetorical structure theory. In
Proceedings of the 2nd SIGDIAL Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Eurospeech,
Denmark.
paper
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Martha Palmer; Nianwen Xue; Olga Babko-Malaya; Jinying Chen; Benjamin Snyder
A Parallel Proposition Bank II for Chinese and English, Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotations II: Pie in the Sky, Held in conjunction with ACL-05, Michigan, June, 2005.
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