Schedule as of “Last modified” date at bottom. Subject to change.

Linguistics: regular polysemy

• Jan 18 Introduction
• Jan 20 You can choose to read either G. Nunberg (1995): Transfers of meaning, or J. Pustejovsky (1991): The generative lexicon
  Additional readings: Lapata, Maria. 2001. A Corpus-based Account of Regular Polysemy: The Case of Context-sensitive Adjectives. In Proceedings of NAACL. Pittsburgh, PA.

Cognitive linguistics: polysemy, not necessarily regular

• Jan 25 D. Cruse (1995): Polysemy and related phenomena from a cognitive linguistic viewpoint (available for copying in the copying room, CAL513)
  Additional readings (see the definition of “polythetic class”): John P. Sutcliffe (1993): Concept, class and category in the tradition of Aristotle. In: I. van Mechelen, J. Hampton, R. Michalki, P. Theuns, eds.: Categories and concepts: theoretical views and inductive data analysis. Academic Press 1993.
• Jan 27 D. Tuggy (2006): Schematic network: Ambiguity, polysemy, and vagueness (available for copying in the copying room, CAL513)

Cognitive linguistics: sense relations, and metaphor

• Feb 1 G. Lakoff (1987), Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: ch. 6, also ch. 5 pp. 83+84 (available for copying in the copying room, CAL513)
• Feb 3 G. Lakoff (2006), Conceptual metaphor. Geeraerts, ed.: Cognitive Linguistics: Basic readings, ch. 6. (available for copying in the copying room, CAL513)

Cognitive linguistics, and lexicography

• Feb 8 R. Gibbs and H. Colston (2006): Image schema: the cognitive psychological reality of image schemas and their transformations (available for copying in the copying room, CAL513)
• Feb 10 You can choose to read either A. Kilgarriff (1997), I don't believe in word senses, or P. Hanks (2000). Do word meanings exist? Computers and the Humanities 34(1-2): 205-215, 2000. (available online in the UT library) Reading presentation: Evelyn Richter

Human concept representation

• Feb 15 chapter 2 of Murphy (2002): The big book of concepts (available for copying in CAL 513.)
• Feb 17 chapter 3 of Murphy (2002): The big book of concepts (available for copying in CAL 513.) Reading presentation: Ian Gerg

Human concept representation; word meaning and prototypes

• Feb 22 chapter 11 of Murphy (2002): The big book of concepts (available for copying in CAL 513) and discussion of course project ideas
• Feb 24 Hans Kamp and Barbara Partee. Prototype theory and compositionality. Cognition 57(2): 129-191, 1995. (available online in the UT library). Reading presentation: Zach Childers

Word meaning and prototypes

• Mar 1 J. Hampton (1991): The combination of prototype concepts Reading presentation: Adams LaBorde
• Mar 3 Linda Coleman and Paul Kay. Prototype Semantics: The English Word Lie. Language, 57(1), 26-44, 1981. (available online in the UT library). Due: project proposal. Reading presentation: Aimee Lawrence

Philosophy of language: Vagueness

• Mar 8 Rosanna Keefe and Peter Smith (1997). Introduction: theories of vagueness. Available on Blackboard under “Course documents”
• Mar 10 Gardenfors (1990): Frameworks for properties: possible worlds vs. conceptual spaces

Spring break

Psychology: Representation of polysemous words

• Mar 22 Klein and Murphy (2001): The representation of polysemous words
• Mar 24 Choose to read either Klepousniotou et al (2008): Making sense of word senses: the comprehension of polysemy depends on sense overlap, or Brown (2008): Choosing sense distinctions for WSD Due: project progress report

Computational linguistics/cognition/artificial intelligence: Geometric approaches to representing word meaning

• Mar 29: Semantic space models in computational linguistics (lecture)
• Mar 31: Guest lecture: Jason Baldridge

Computational linguistics/cognition: Geometric approaches to representing word meaning in context

• Apr 5 W. Kintsch, (2001) Predication. Cognitive Science, 25, 173-202. (available online at the UT library) Reading presentation: Juwon Lee
• Apr 7 Overview of approaches in computational linguistics (lecture).
  Papers mentioned in class:
  • Baroni and Zamparelli (2010): Nouns are vectors, adjectives are matrices: Representing adjective-noun constructions in semantic space
  • Erk and Pado (2008): A structured vector space model for word meaning in context
  • Grefenstette, Sadrzadeh, Clark, Coecke and Pulman (2011): Concrete compositional sentence spaces
  • Smolensky (1990): Tensor product variable binding and the representation of symbolic structures in connectionist systems.
  • Thater, Fuerstenau, and Pinkal (2010): Contextualizing semantic representations using syntactically enriched vector models
  • Washtell (2011): Compositional expectation: A purely distributional model of compositional semantics
  • Wu and Schuler (2011): Structured composition of semantic vectors

Psychology/computational linguistics: Feature-based approaches to word meaning

• Apr 12 Vigliocco et al (2004): Representing the meanings of object and action words
• Apr 14 M. Baroni, B. Murphy, E. Barbu and M. Poesio. 2010. Strudel: A corpus-based semantic model based on properties and types. Cognitive Science 34 (2): 222-254.

Linguistics/psychology: Words, events, frames

• Apr 19 C.J. Fillmore, C.R. Johnson and M.R.L Petruck. Background to Framenet. International Journal of Lexicography 16(3): 235-250. 2003. (available online in the UT library)
  Background reading:
  • C. Fillmore: Frames and the semantics of understanding
  • C. Fillmore: Double-decker definitions: the role of frames in meaning explanations
  • Ellsworth et al: PropBank, SALSA, and FrameNet: How Design Determines Product
• Apr 21 McRae, K., & Matsuki, K. (2009). People use their knowledge of common events to understand language, and do so as quickly as possible. Language & Linguistics Compass, 3, 1417-1429. Due: project report

Alternative approaches to word meaning

• Apr 26 McCarthy, D. and R. Navigli (2009) The English Lexical Substitution Task, In Language Resources and Evaluation 43 (2) Special Issue on Computational Semantic Analysis of Language: SemEval-2007 and Beyond, Agirre, E., Màrquez, L. and Wicentowksi, R. (Eds). pp 139-159 (available online in the UT library)
• Apr 28 Erk, McCarthy, and Gaylord (2009): Investigations on Word Senses and Word Usages

• May 3: Discussion of course projects:
  • 2:00 Aimee Lawrence
  • 2:25 Juwon Lee
  • 2:50 Zach Childers
• May 5: Discussion of course projects:
  • 2:00 Adams LaBorde
  • 2:25 Evelyn Richter
  • 2:50 Ian Gerg