Space, Time and Event Representations for Semantic Processing
Module Description
| Course | Module Abbreviation | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|
| BA-2010 | AS-FL | 8 LP |
| Master | SS-CL, SS-FAL | 8 LP |
| Lecturer | Michael Herweg |
| Module Type | |
| Language | English |
| First Session | 29.04.2019 |
| Time and Place | Monday, 14:15-15:45, INF 329 / SR 26 |
| Commitment Period | tbd. |
Prerequisite for Participation
- introduction to logic
- formal and computational semantics
Assessment
- active participation
- presentation
- term paper or project
Content
The representation and processing of spatial and temporal information in texts is an important component of many applications in computational linguistics. The course will cover the following topics:
- the linguistic means to express information about space, time and events;
- their representation in computational ressources, in particular lexical databases such as FrameNet and WordNet;
- influential approaches to the representation and processing of space, time and events from theoretical and computational linguistics, logic and knowledge representation / AI, including relevant ontologies and systems of spatial and temporal reasoning;
- specialized markup standards for spatial and temporal annotation such as TimeML and SpaceML;
- NLP applications like temporal and spatial tagging of texts, generation of route directions, medical language understanding and others.
The final selection of topics and focus areas will depend on the participants' interests and preferences.
Module Overview
Agenda
| Date | Session | Materials |
Literature
- will be announced in the class
