PPT-Word semantics 1

DAY 26 Oct 28 2013 Brain amp Language LING 4110489051107960 NSCI 411048916110 Harry Howard Tulane University Course organization The syllabus these slides and my recordings are available at . 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, . Slides by Julia . Hockenmaier. , Laura . McGarrity. , Bill McCartney, Chris Manning, and Dan Klein. Question Answering: . IBM’s Watson. Jeopardy challenge:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seNkjYyG3gI. Theory . Lexical Semantics. Tandem workshop on Optimality Theory in language and geometric approaches to language. Overview. . Overview OT & lexical semantics. Consequences of OT view on lexical semantics. Pragmatics. Patrick Griffiths, 2006.. MEANING. SEMANTICS & PRAGMATICS. SEMANTICS & PRAGMATICS. Study . sentence. meaning and word meaning, not tied to context.. Study . utterance. meaning. Utterances are expressions identified only by their contexts.. 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? . LIN1180/LIN5082 Semantics. Lecture 1. Logistics…. Semantics -- LIN1180. Course . tutor:. Albert Gatt. albert.gatt@um.edu.mt. Course . assessment is by assignment:. This year, this will take the form of a number of short questions. They will be made available in due course.. , . Semantics. , . and. . Comprehension. What is the difference between syntax and semantics. . Semantics- Grammatical rules for assigning meaning to a sentence. . Syntax- Grammatical rules for specifying correct word order and inflectional structure in a sentence. Doing this does not really give a clear explanation of the differences between the two. It is . LIN 1180 – Semantics. Lecture7. Ambiguity and vagueness. Continuation from last week. Ambiguity vs. Vagueness (I). In context, a word can seem to have several distinct senses. Some may appear more related than others.. Semantics studies . the meaning of words and other parts of language, . it is . the systematic study of meaning. The study of meaning can be undertaken in various ways. Speakers of a language have an implicit knowledge about what is meaningful in their language and . 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. ). 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. SEMANTICS. YANBU UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. APPLIED LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT. FIRST . SEMESTER-131. Prepared by : Ms. . Sahar. . Deknash. Linguistics and Semantics. Semantics . is defined as one branch of theoretical linguistics ( pure linguistics) that studies the linguistic meaning ( lexical meaning) of words, phrases and sentences. When we study the meaning of words, we usually concentrate on the denotative ( literal ) meaning more than the connotative meaning. MAS.S60. Rob Speer. Catherine . Havasi. * Lots of slides borrowed for lots of sources! See end. . Are people doing logic?. Language Log: “Russia sentences”. *More people have been to Russia than I have.. Hongning Wang. CS@UVa. Today’s lecture. Lexical semantics. Meaning of words. Relation between different meanings. WordNet. An ontology structure of word senses. Similarity between words. Distributional semantics.