comsem.md

layout: course

title: Computational Natural Language Semantics
instructors:
    - mkohlhase
    
organization: Jacobs University
semesters:
    - Fall06
    - Fall08
    - Fall10
    - Fall12
    - Spring14
    - Spring15

This course introduces logic-based methods for computing and representing for the semantics of natural language. We use Montague's "method of fragments" to create a series of language models of increasing coverage (of English).

A language model is a triple of

• a grammar G that defines a language fragment that can be translated,
• a logical system L that acts as the meaning representation, and
• a translation from syntax trees induced by G to formulae in L.

The course resources (course notes, literature, assignments) can be found here.

Having heard the course "Computational Logic" is very helpful, but not a prerequisite.