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Unit 1

Introduction

Python warmup exercise


Unit 2

Vector Semantics

Unit 3

Graph Semantics

Unit 4

Meaning and Units

Readings


Unit 5

Meaning Disambiguation and Resolution

Readings

Unit 6

Meaning transfer

Computational Pragmatics and Contextual representation

Readings


Neural Machine Translation

Diachonic semantic modeling

Unit 7

Multimodal Semantics

Readings

Unit 8

Semantic Inference

Readings


Class Schedule

Week Date Topics Lab
1 9/24 Introduction to Semantics Representation and Computation,
2 10/01 Introducing semantics and computation GitHub, IPython/Colab
3 9/27 Logical representation
4 10/04 Logical representation
5 10/11 Holiday (class changed to 10/05) Ontology and the Lexicon
6 10/18 Vectorized representation
7 10/25 Vectorized representation
8 11/01 Vectorized representation
9 11/08 Graphical representation
10 11/15 Holiday
11 11/22 Computational Pragmatics
12 11/29 (guest lecture : CWS forum) (AI-linguistics symposium)
13 12/06 Multimodal semantics
14 12/13 Meaning translation
15 12/20 Meaning disambiguation
16 12/27 Sentiment and semantics
17 01/03 Text/discourse generation
18 01/10 Final project presentation / paper due