[Corpora-List] CTL@CILTA - Categorial Type Logic and Italian Corpora

From: Fabio Tamburini (tamburini@cilta.unibo.it)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 14:38:29 MET DST

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                                    CTL@CILTA
                      Categorial Type Logic and Italian Corpora

               Lectures held by prof. M. MOORTGAT, University of Utrecht
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    The framework of categorial grammar was introduced by Jim Lambek in his
    1958
    and 1961 papers. These systems, despite their great mathematical
    elegance, have
    their limitations when it comes to dealing with real life problems in
    computational linguistics. The structural properties of the original
    categorial
    grammars are hard-wired. Issues of structural variation, a core concern
    of
    linguistic theory, are not easily dealt with if the structural component
    of the
    grammar is fixed.

    Over the past years, a new categorial grammar design has emerged, as a
    result
    of the surge of interest in resource-conscious models of computation.
    For
    current type-logical grammars, cross-linguistic variation arises from
    the
    interplay between a core module, capturing grammatical INVARIANTS, and a
    flexible STRUCTURAL MODULE. The vocabulary of type-forming operations is
    extended with explicit CONTROL operators that make it possible to keep
    structural options firmly anchored in lexical type assignment.

    This course offers an introduction to the theoretical foundations of
    present-day categorial type logics, and their computational use in
    natural
    language processing. The course has a double emphasis:
        - Italian. We look at some core phenomena of Italian grammar, and
    see how
    they fit within the broader landscape of cross-linguistic variation.
        - Corpus-based computational linguistics. We discuss the
    applicability of
    categorial techniques to the exploitation of the Cilta corpus, drawing
    on
    experiences with the annotation of the Spoken Dutch Corpus and its
    categorial
    analysis.

    Course structure:

          1a week: 8-12 September
             "Grammatical invariants. Constants of the base Logic,
    residuation
              laws, frame models for structured linguistic expressions."
                 Mon - 16-18 Seminar (M.Moortgat)
                 Tue - 10-12 Seminar (M.Moortgat)
                 Fri - 10-13, 14-16 Lab. (R.Bernardi)

          2a week: 15-19 September
             "Meaning assembly. The Curry-Howard interpretation."
                 Mon - 10-12 Discussion (M.Moortgat)
                       14-16 Seminar (M.Moortgat)
                 Tue - 10-12 Seminar (M.Moortgat)
                 Fri - 11-13, 14-17 Lab. (R.Bernardi)

          3a week: 22-26 September
             "The logic of variation. Structural laws relating form and
    meaning
              assembly."
                 Mon - 10-12 Discussion (M.Moortgat)
                       14-16 Seminar (M.Moortgat)
                 Tue - 10-12 Seminar (M.Moortgat)
                 Fri - 11-13, 14-17 Lab. (R.Bernardi)

          4a week: 29 September - 2 October
             2 parallel sessions:
                 Linguistic issues - "Lexical versus derivational
    semantics."
                 Computational issues - "The computational system: sequent
    proof
                                         search and proof nets."
                             TO BE DEFINED...

          5a week: 6-10 October
             "Learning: solving lexical and structural equations.
    Incremental
              processing."
                 Mon - 10-12 Discussion (M.Moortgat)
                       14-16 Seminar (M.Moortgat)
                 Tue - 10-12 Seminar (M.Moortgat)
                 Fri - 11-13, 14-17 Lab. (R.Bernardi)

          6a week: 13-17 October (held by dr. R. Moot)
             "Corpus-based categorial grammar induction."
                             TO BE DEFINED...

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    Please refer to CILTA website for further information and up-to-date
    lecture
    schedule:
    http://www.cilta.unibo.it/Portale/Seminars%20CLT%20at%20CILTA.html

    Contact Email address:
            f.tamburini@cilta.unibo.it



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