[Colloquium] Research at TTIC: David McAllester

[Dawn Ellis]

When:     Friday, May 23rd at Noon

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room #526

Who:       TTIC Faculty, David McAllester

Title:       The Problem of Reference

Abstract:

This talk will present an approach to the semantics of natural
language focusing on the problem of reference.  Phrases of natural
language refer to things in the world such as "Obama", "Air Force
One", "the Malaysian airliner that disappeared" or "the occupation of
Crimea".  Sampled sentences will be used to argue that resolving
references is essential to any treatment of semantics.  The discussion
of natural language semantics will include both philosophical
considerations, such as the notion of "a thing in the world" and the
problem of grounding, as well as concrete engineering problems such as
achieving good performance on the NAACL coreference evaluation.  A new
grammar formalism for modeling reference --- entity grammars --- will
also be presented.



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Research at TTIC Seminar Series

TTIC is hosting a weekly seminar series presenting the research currently
underway at the Institute. Every week a different TTIC faculty member will
present their research.  The lectures are intended both for students
seeking research topics and adviser, and for the general TTIC and
University of Chicago communities interested in hearing what their
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Speaker details can be found at: http://www.ttic.edu/tticseminar.php.

For additional questions, please contact David McAllester at
mcallester at ttic.edu


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*Dawn Ellis*
Administrative Coordinator,
Bookkeeper
773-834-1757
dellis at ttic.edu

TTIC
6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60637
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