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Courses and Workshops
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| Title: | Recent developments in computational semantics |
| Lecturer(s): | Markus Egg (University of Saarland) and Valia Kordoni (University of
Saarland) |
| Type: | Advanced Course |
| Section: | Logic and Language |
| Week: | First | | Time: | 9.00-10.30 (Slot 1) |
| Webpage: | http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~egg/esslli04.php3
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| Reader: | Course will not have a reader | | Room: | A4 |
Description In the last two decades, computational linguists have become
increasingly interested in semantic issues and the syntax-semantics
interface. Recent developments in Computational Semantics converge
considerably; a couple of core ideas (e.g., how to handle syntactic
restrictions on scope), core issues, and benchmark examples (scope,
ellipsis etc.) show up in every relevant formalism in a somewhat
different guise.
The development of flexible semantic formalisms that have been
successfully implemented and integrated in large-scale constraint-based
NLP systems also marks recent progress in computational semantics. Such
formalisms include the Quasi-Logical Form of the Core Language Engine,
the LFG Glue Semantics, Underspecified DRT, Minimal Recursion Semantics,
and the Constraint Language for Lambda Structures, to name but a few.
The aim of this course is to present and explore semantic formalisms and
their interfaces as they are used in implementation efforts around the
world which focus on the development of large-scale computational
grammars. The course intends to continue the series of courses on
advanced theoretical semantics held at previous summer schools, bringing
in the so far missing overview of computational semantics.
On our course page we have provided links to almost all of the relevant
papers for the course. In due time, we intend to provide the slides for
our course on this page.
This course is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL' Special Interest Group in
Computational Semantics.
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© 2003, 2004 LORIA, Carlos Areces. |
2004-07-07
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