PPT-1 Distributional Semantics:

Word Association and Similarity Ido Dagan Including Slides by Katrin Erk mostly Marco Baroni Alessandro Lenci BLESS 2 Word Association Measures Goal measure the statistical strength of word term cooccurrence in corpus. These semantics wil l be treated both in their original extensionbased form as well as in the form o f argument labellings Our treatment includes a sketch of few algorithms for skepti cal as well as for the credulous approach to argumentation 1 Intr se 1 Introduction Distributional approaches to meaning acquisition utilize distributional proper ties of linguistic entities as the building blocks of semantics In doing so they rely fundamentally on a set of assumptions about the nature of language A Word on Semantics . the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and . sub branches . of semantics, including . formal semantics. , which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, . María. J. . Arche. , Laura . Domínguez. & Florence Myles. This talk. To investigate the L2 acquisition of Grammatical Aspect by looking into the acquisition of the . semantics . of the Spanish imperfect by native speakers of English.. Katie Welch, PhD. LING3311-001. How do we know what words mean?. When we want to know what a word means, we often turn a familiar source—the dictionary. . Why is the dictionary not a sufficient method for determining meaning? . Andrew Hirsch and . Michael Clarkson. George Washington University. Cornell University. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications . Security. November 6, 2013. Formal Reasoning . about Authorization. Katrin Erk. University of Texas at . Austin. Meaning in Context Symposium. München. September 2015. Joint work with Gemma . Boleda. Semantic features by example: . Katz & Fodor. Different meanings of a word characterized by lists of semantic features. Harris T. Lin. , . Sanghack. Lee, . Ngot. Bui and . Vasant. . Honavar. Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Iowa State University. htlin@iastate.edu. Introduction. Text-to-Scene Generation. 1. Bob Coyne (. coyne@cs.columbia.edu. ). Owen . Rambow. (. rambow@ccls.columbia.edu. ). . Richard . Sproat. (. rws@xoba.com. ). Julia Hirschberg (. julia@columbia.edu. ). S. imilarity to Semantic Relations. Georgeta. . Bordea. , November 25. Based on a talk by Alessandro . Lenci. . titled “Will DS ever become Semantic?”, Jan 2014. Distributional Semantics . (DS. A branch of linguistics dealing with the study of meaning, including the ways meaning is structured in language and changes in meaning and form over time . (Random House Webster’s Dictionary). Semantics, roughly defined, is the study of meaning. in Lexical Typology:. Constructing a typological questionnaire. Daria . Ryzhova. School of Linguistics. NRU HSE. Outline. Lexical Typology: Frame-based Approach. Ideology. Typological questionnaire. Chapter 3 Topics. Introduction. The General Problem of Describing Syntax. Formal Methods of Describing Syntax. Attribute Grammars. Describing . the Meanings of Programs: Dynamic Semantics. 1-. 2. Introduction. What does this mean?. Meaning. From the lowly . phone. through the . morph. , the . phrase. , and the . clause. : . NPs & VPs label meaning at a very general level; . grammatical relations (Actor/.