GdR LIFT is happy to announce the two forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics:
- 2022/01/18 17:00-18:00 UTC+1: *Johan Bos* (University of Groningen)
Title: *Variable-free Meaning Representations *Abstract:
*Most formal meaning representations use variables to represent entities
and relations between them. But variables can be bothersome for people
annotating texts with meanings, and for algorithms that work with meanings
representations, in particular the recent machine learning methods based on
neural network technology. Hence the question that I am interested in is:
can we replace the currently popular meaning representations with
representations that do not use variables, without giving up any expressive
power? My starting point are the representations of Discourse
Representation Theory. I will show that these can be replaced by a simple
language based on indices instead of variables, assuming a neo-Davidsonian
event semantics. The resulting formalism has several interesting
consequences. Apart from being beneficial to human annotators and machine
learning algorithms, it also offers straightforward visualisation
possibilities and potential for modelling information packaging.*
- 2022/02/15 17:00-18:00 UTC+1: *Najoung Kim* (New York University;
11:00-12:00 UTC-5)
Title: [TBA]
Abstract: [TBA]
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