31 January 2020 - Sebastian Padó: Seminar Title: Entities as a Window into Distributional Semantics Abstract: The distinction between categories (“country”) and entities (“Italy”, “UK”) is a fundamental one in formal semantics but has found little attention in distributional semantics. I propose that entities provide interesting insights into the capabilities and limits of distributional semantics. Concretely, I will speak about a series of studies concerned with (a), predicting entity properties; and (b), modeling categories in terms of their constituent entities. Biography: Sebastian Padó is professor of computational linguistics at Stuttgart University. He studied in Saarbrücken and Edinburgh and was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. His core research concerns learning, representing, and processing semantic knowledge (broadly construed) from and in text. Examples include modeling linguistic phenomena, discourse structure, inference, semantic processing, and cross-lingual perspectives on semantics. Add to your calendar vCal iCal Jan 31 2020 11.00 - 12.00 31 January 2020 - Sebastian Padó: Seminar ILCC seminar by Sebastian Padó G.03, Informatics Forum Contact
31 January 2020 - Sebastian Padó: Seminar Title: Entities as a Window into Distributional Semantics Abstract: The distinction between categories (“country”) and entities (“Italy”, “UK”) is a fundamental one in formal semantics but has found little attention in distributional semantics. I propose that entities provide interesting insights into the capabilities and limits of distributional semantics. Concretely, I will speak about a series of studies concerned with (a), predicting entity properties; and (b), modeling categories in terms of their constituent entities. Biography: Sebastian Padó is professor of computational linguistics at Stuttgart University. He studied in Saarbrücken and Edinburgh and was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. His core research concerns learning, representing, and processing semantic knowledge (broadly construed) from and in text. Examples include modeling linguistic phenomena, discourse structure, inference, semantic processing, and cross-lingual perspectives on semantics. Add to your calendar vCal iCal Jan 31 2020 11.00 - 12.00 31 January 2020 - Sebastian Padó: Seminar ILCC seminar by Sebastian Padó G.03, Informatics Forum Contact
