Descripción y contextualización de la asignatura

The course will address the following topics:

i) An introduction to the semantic interpretation including computational semantics and pragmatics. The objective of this first part of the course is to present the basic concepts about semantics that cover all topics related to the relationship between lexical, syntax and semantics, formal representation of the meaning of a sentence, computational approaches to formal semantics, essential resources necessary for the computational treatment of semantics.

ii) Logical formalisms and logic programming (Prolog).

iii) computational semantics including lexical semantics, lexical resources (i.e. WordNet), commonsense knowledge, reasoning, compositional and non compositional meaning, Definite Clause Grammars, Dialog, etc.

iv) Computational pragmatics and discourse including

a) the study of theories that formalize the rhetorical structure of a text (i.e. RST),

b) the problem of co-referencing and the identification of co-referencing chains and c) modeling of speech acts in dialogue.

Resultados del aprendizaje de la asignatura

Understand the foundations of logical formalisms of semantic and pragmatic representation.

Ability to represent semantic and pragmatic knowledge of language.

Ability to work with logical programming formalities.

Ability to implement specific tasks that require semantic and pragmatic processing of language.

Convocatoria ordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

The evaluation will consist of 3 tasks (30%, 30% and 40%) proposed during the module. Part of the class time will be dedicated to carry out such tasks, which can be elaborated outside class time.

Convocatoria extraordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

Students will be able to resubmit the tasks assigned during the module.

Temario

1. Introduction to semantics and computational pragmatics.

2. Introduction to logical formalisms and logic programming.

3. Computational Semantics.

4. Computational Pragmatics and discourse.

Bibliografía

Bibliografía básica

Patrick Blackburn & Johan Bos. Representation and Inference for Natural Language: A First Course in Computational Semantics. Center

for the Study of Language and Information. 2005

Horn, L., & Ward, G. (Eds.). The handbook of pragmatics. Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 26. Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics. Daniel Jurafsky. 2006.

http://www.let.rug.nl/bos/comsem/book1.html <br /><br />http://www.let.rug.nl/bos/comsem/book2.html <br /><br />http://www.learnprolognow.org/