PLIN021 Practical Semantic Analysis

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Zuzana Nevěřilová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:50–12:25 G13
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to: understand the concept of sense and different types of sense; understand the ambiguity and its processing in current computer programs; understand sense disambiguation in current dictionaries as well as in computer processing; explain the role of context in sense disambiguation; understand the formalisms used in semantic analysis; understand current approaches and computer programs for semantic analysis
Syllabus
  • Introduction to sense study. Signs and senses. Types of sense.
  • Homonymy and Polysemy. Is the sense space discrete? Is the ambiguity a real problem?
  • Sense in dictionaries, sense in text, “one-sense per collocation” assumption, machine learning approaches, sense definition comparison.
  • Word sense disambiguation (WSD), the SENSEVAL contest, WSD algorithms, whan does WSD work? Problems with WSD: granularity, subjectivity.
  • Formalisms for describing sense: semantic features, selectional restritions, taxonomies, semantic frames and scripts, asociative and semantic networks, verb valency lexicons. WordNet and other resources.
  • The role of the context, formalisms, relations between senses, domains, context vectors.
  • Mathematical sense modelling and context modelling.
  • Sense and emotions, emotional computing. From word meanings to the meaning of the discourse
Literature
    recommended literature
  • GODDARD, Cliff. Semantic Analysis : a practical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, xv, 411 s. ISBN 0-19-870017-2. info
  • ALLEN, James. Natural language understanding. 2nd ed. Redwood City: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1995, xv, 654 s. ISBN 0-8053-0334-0. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, working on computers.
Assessment methods
Project, final written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
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