ESSLLI 2005, EdinburghNatural Language Semantic Representations as TypesTim Fernando + a lecture by Robin CooperScheduleI plan to update slides of my lectures below. Comments very welcome!Lecture 1: Introduction + Events from temporal logic for sub-atomic semanticsM. Steedman, The Productions of Time, Draft tutorial notes about temporal semantics, October 2002 T. Fernando, Events from temporal logic to regular languages with branching, Proc FG-MOL 2005
Lecture 2: From Moens-Steedman to Hamm-van LambalgenM. Moens and M. Steedman, Temporal ontology and temporal reference, Computational Linguistics, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp 15-28, 1988 M. van Lambalgen and F. Hamm, The Proper Treatment of Events, Blackwell, 2004 (an early blurb and Hamm and Kamp's ESSLLI 2005 course) T. Fernando, `The proper treatment of events' in comics, a note for lecture 2
Lecture 3: NLSRep's as Types of SituationsL.K. Schubert, The situations we talk about, in J. Minker (ed.), Logic-Based Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000, 407-439 T. Fernando, LTL**, a note for lecture 3
Lecture 4: From regular languages to functional programmingA. Ranta, Type-Theoretical Grammar, Oxford University Press, 1995 T. Fernando, Conservative generalized quantifiers and presupposition, Semantics and Linguistic Theory XI, NYU/Cornell, 2001, pp 172-191
Lecture 5: Robin Cooper on records and record typesR. Cooper, Records and record types in semantic theory, Journal of Logic and Computation, 15 (2) 99-112, 2005
More materialsHere's the course reader and an early version of the course.
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