Semantic Analysis in Language Technology (Spring 2016)
SAIS: Semantisk Analys i Språkteknologi
Schedule and List of Topics | ||||
| Jan, 18 (Mon) Lec 01 |
13‑15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Introduction to the Course (Pdf) Semantics and Computational Semantics (Pdf, Slideshare) Ass1 (Group) Glossary creation: Terms & Definitions Deadline: 16 March 2016 |
Stone (In Press) |
| Jan, 20 (Wed) Lec 02 |
13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Semantic Role Labelling/ Predicate-Argument Structure (Pdf, Slideshare, Activity) Ass2 (Individual). Deadline: 13 March |
- J&M (2015): Ch 22 See also Saeed (2009): -- Sections: 6.1 - 6.7 -- Sec: 9.4.2 Thematic roles and linking rules |
| Jan, 27 (Wed) Lec 03 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Sentiment Analysis (Pdf, Slideshare, Activity) Ass3 (Individual). Deadline: 20 March |
- J&M (2015): Ch 21 - Liu (2012) |
| Feb, 1 (Mon) Lec 04 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Word Senses (Pdf, Slideshare, Act1: SelRs, Act2: WSs) |
- J&M (2015): Ch 18: 18.1-18-3 - J&M (2015): Ch 22: 22.7, Sel. Restrictions - See also Saeed (2009): 3.1-3.5 |
| Feb, 3 (Wed) Lec 05 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Word Sense Disambiguation (Pdf, Slideshare, Activity) |
- J&M (2015): Ch 18: 18.4-18.10 |
| Feb, 8 (Mon) Lec 06 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Vector Semantics (aka Distributional Semantics) (Pdf, Slideshare, Activity) |
J&M (2015): Ch 19: up to 19.4 incl. |
| Feb, 15 (Mon) Lec 07 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Information Extraction (I): Named Entity Recognition (Pdf, Slideshare, Activity) | J&M (2015): Ch 20: up to 20.1.3 incl. |
| Feb, 17 (Wed) Lec 08 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Question Answering (Pdf, Slideshare, Activity) | J&M (2015): Ch 28 |
| Feb, 24 (Wed) Lec 09 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Information Extraction (II) Extracting Relations (Pdf, Slideshare, Activity) | J&M (2015): Ch 20 |
| Feb, 29 (Wed) Lec 10 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Summarization (Pdf, Slideshare, Activity) | J&M (2009(!) |
| Mar, 2 (Wed) Lec 11 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Ontology and the Semantic Web (Pdf, Slideshare, Activity) | Harrocks (2008) |
| Mar, 7 (Mon) Lec 12 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Semantic Word Clouds (Pdf, Slideshare, Activity) | Barth et al. (2014) |
| Mar, 9 (Wed) Lec 13 | 10-12 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Presentations (I): Opening - Gr 1 (pdf) * will peer-review Gr 5 - Gr 3 (pdf) * will peer-review Gr 4 - Gr 6 (pdf) will peer-review Gr 2, ok - Gr 7 (pdf) * will peer-review Gr 6 | Ass1: Glossary Creation (I) |
| Mar, 16 (Wed) Lec 14 | 13-15 | 9-2043 (Chomsky) |
Presentations (II): Wrapping-Up - Gr 2 (pdf) will peer-review Gr 1, ok - Gr 4 (pdf) will peer-review Gr 3, ok - Gr 5 (pdf) * will peer-review Gr 7 | Ass1: Glossary Creation (II) |
Intended learning outcomes
In order to pass the course the student is required to describe systems for the following tasks, apply such systems to linguistic data and evaluate the outcome:
- disambiguate tokens of ambiguous words, and work with senses and concepts;
- use semantic analysis in information extraction and question answering;
- uses methods for semantic role labelling and for extraction of predicate-argument-structure;
- detects and extracts attitudes and opinions from texts.
Attendance, Examination and Grading Criteria
There is a mandatory 80% attendance requirement for the lectures that will take place at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Room 9-2043 (Chomsky). If a student fails to fulfill this requirement, additional assignments will have to be completed prior to passing the course. The choice of the topics for the additional assignments will relate to the missed lectures. A student is also entitled to repeat the course, depending on available capacity. The course is examined by means of:-- practical activities to be completed in class;
-- three home assignments to be submitted by the due date.
Practical activities are not graded.
Assignments: The submission of each of the three home assignments is mondatory.
Home assignments are graded and the following marks will be used:
-- Underkänd (U) [Fail]
-- Godkänt (G) [Pass]
-- Väl Godkänt (VG) [Distinction]
In order to pass the course, three G are required + the completion of practical activities. In order to pass the course with distinction (VG), a student must pass at least two home assignments with distinction (VG).
Home Assignments - Topics
- Group Assignment: Glossary Creation
- Individual Assignment - Semantic Role Labelling / Predicate-Argument Structure
- Individual Assignment - Sentiment Analysis
Reference List (Required Reading)
- Jurafsky D. & Martin J. (2015) Speech and Language Processing: An introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition. Third Edition Draft. Only chapters specified in the timetable.
- Bing Liu (2012). Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining. Morgan & Claypool.
- Stone M. (In Press) Semantics and computational semantics To appear in Paul Dekker and Maria Aloni, eds., Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics.
- Horrocks I. (2008) Ontologies and the Semantic Web. Communications of the ACM, 51(12):58-67, December 2008.
- Lukas Barth, Stephen G. Kobourov, Sergey Pupyrev (2014) Experimental Comparison of Semantic Word Clouds. in Experimental Algorithms, Volume 8504 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 247-258.
Addendum
-- C. Manning: Precision, Recall,and the F measure (Video, Slides)-- Formulas
-- More on the evaluation of SRL (Ass2)