COSI 135B — Computational Semantics

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Prerequisites: COSI 11a or permission of the instructor. Open to advanced undergraduate students and first-year graduate students.

A study of the computational treatment of core semantic phenomena in language. After a review of first-order logic and the lambda calculus, the course focuses on three core topics: interrogative structures, including semantics of questions, question-answering systems, dialogue, entailment, commonsense knowledge; meaning update and revision; and computational lexical semantics. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Pustejovsky