Research Group Sebastian Pado
Topics
We conduct research in computational linguistics, mostly in the area of lexical and/or computational semantics, generally following a data-driven approach:
- Acquisition of lexical information: How can we automatically learn and extend lexicons from text that provide reliable information on various aspects of meaning and meaning variation?
- Semantic representation: What formalisms are available to represent such meaning information in a manner that is ideally both linguistically and cognitively adequate?
- Cross-lingual linguistic analysis: How can we use bilingual parallel and comparable corpora to learn more about linguistic structures in either language?
- From words to texts: What is the nature of the interaction between the meaning of lexical units, of phrases, and of complete discourses?
- Applications of lexical-semantic knowledge: How can all of the above contribute towards more intelligent and robust natural language processing applications that make a difference for the end user?
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News
- Article accepted for the Cognitive Science Journal: A. Zarcone and A. Lenci and S. Pado. Logical metonymy resolution in a words-as-cues framework: evidence from self-paced reading and probe recognition.
- Abstract accepted at AMLaP 2013: A. Zarcone and S. Pado: Logical metonymy: Disentangling object type and thematic fit.
- Paper accepted at ACL 2013: S. Pado and J. Å najder and B. Zeller: Derivational Smoothing for Syntactic Distributional Semantics.
- Paper accepted at ACL 2013: J. Šnajder and S. Pado and Ž. Agić: Building and Evaluating a Distributional Memory for Croatian.
- Paper accepted at ACL 2013: B. Zeller and J. Šnajder and S. Pado. DErivBase: Inducing and Evaluating a Derivational Morphology Resource for German.
- Article appeared in in Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 99: E. Mújdricza-Maydt, H. Körkel-Qu, S. Riezler, S. Pado. High-Precision Sentence Alignment by Bootstrapping from Wood Standard Annotations.
- Paper accepted at the Workshop "Towards A Formal Distributional Semantics": J. Utt, A. Lenci, S. Pado, A. Zarcone. The Curious Case of Metonymic Verbs: A Distributional Characterization.
- Three papers accepted at IWCS 2013: (1) O. Nikitina and S. Pado. A corpus study of clause combination. (2) B. Zeller and S. Pado. A Textual Entailment Dataset from German Web Forum Text. (3) A. Zarcone, A. Lenci, S. Pado, J. Utt. Fitting, not clashing! A distributional semantic model of logical metonymy.
- Our tutorial on Textual Entailment was accepted at AAAI 13. Come and hear us in Bellevue!