Lecture 16 (21/4/2022, 2 hours): more on WordNet; concepts vs. words: what comes first?

More on WordNet; concepts vs. words: what comes first? Two different views and their impact in computational lexical semantics.

Lecture 15 (11/04/2022, 3 hours): lexical-semantic knowledge resources, WordNet, BabelNet

Lexical-semantic knowledge resources. More on WordNet and its structure. The notion of synset. Lexical and semantic relations. Multilingual lexical-semantic knowledge graphs. BabelNet: motivation, creation, organization. Practical notebook on WordNet.

Lecture 14 (7/4/2022, 2 hours): word senses, computational approaches to sense reprensetation, synsets and WordNet

Introduction to word senses and their representations. Monosemy vs. polysemy vs. homonymy. Sense distinctions. Enumerative vs. generative approach. Graded word sense assignments. Figures of  speech. Notion of synset. Introduction to WordNet.

Lecture 13 (04/04/2022, 3 hours): introduction to lexical semantics

Introduction to lexical semantics. Lexicon, lemmas and word forms. Word senses: monosemy vs. polysemy. Special kinds of polysemy. Computational sense representations: enumeration vs. generation. Graded word sense assignment.