The next talk of the Linguistics Circle Seminar Series is entitled 'A Journey in Lexical Semantics: finding similar, substitutable, simpler words'. The talk will be held on Friday 12 February 2016 at 12:00 in Room 114, M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway Building (GW114). The speaker is Marc Tanti.
Abstract
Words have meaning, but can a computer understand this meaning? Using simple techniques, computers can tackle problems which humans require an understanding of word meanings to solve. They can find words which are similar in meaning using distributional semantics; they can find words which are substitutable in a particular context using language modelling; they can even replace difficult words with ones which are simpler using frequency measures. How can computers do these things? In this talk Marc Tanti will explain these concepts in simple terms for a general audience as an introduction to computational lexical semantics.
