View Seminar Video View Presentation Slides Abstract Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs) are rooted, directional and labeled graphs that abstract away from morpho-syntactic idiosyncrasies such as word category (verbs and nouns), word order, and function words[…]
View Seminar Video View Presentation Slides Abstract Semantic parsing, the task of mapping utterances to semantic representations (e.g. logical forms), has its roots in the early natural language understanding systems of the 1960s. These rule-based[…]
View Seminar Video View Presentation Slides Abstract A formal semantics for low-level perceptual aspects of meaning is presented, tying these together with the logical-inferential aspects of meaning traditionally studied in formal semantics. The key idea[…]
View Seminar Video View Presentation Slides Abstract This talk will present an approach to the semantics of natural language focusing on the problem of reference. Phrases of natural language refer to things in the world[…]
View Seminar Video View Presentation Slides Abstract An influential body of work in recent cognitive science makes use of structured Bayesian models to understand diverse cognitive activities in which uncertainty plays a critical role, such[…]
View Seminar Video View Presentation Slides Abstract The Allen Institute of AI (AI2) has is building software that aims to achieve proficiency on standardized science & math tests. My talk will introduce AI2, its research[…]
View Seminar Video View Presentation Slides Abstract In a classical semantic theory meaning is defined in terms of truth conditions. The meaning of a sentence is built up compositionally through a sequence of functions from[…]
