263COSI-135B-1 : Computational Semantics
263COSI-135B-1
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- Course Description and Syllabus (Subsection)
- Ask the Class (Forum)
- Library Research Guide (External tool)
Part I — Meaning as Logic (6 sessions)
- Computational Semantics -- van Eijck and Unger (File)
- Linear Algebra -- Self-assessment (File)
- Linear Algebra self-assessment answers (File)
- Anonymous Linear Algebra Self-assessment Form (Feedback)
- Linear Algebra Review Guide (File)
- Haskell Review Companion (File)
- Lecture 1 -- 8/28/26 (corrected 9/8/26) (File)
- Lecture 2 -- Semantic Types (File)
- Lecture 2 -- Computational Semantics from the NLP Perspective (File)
- Lecture 3 -- Predicate Logic (File)
- Details of Lambda Calculus Syntax and de Bruijn Indexing (File)
- The Fragment of English (File)
- Lecture 5 -- Quantifier Scope (File)
- Lecture 5 Extra - Monotonicity (File)
- Lecture 5 Extra - Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) (File)
- Lecture 5 Extra - Taking Stock (File)
- Lecture 6 - Beyond the Sentence (File)
Part II — Meaning as Distribution (4 sessions)
- Jurafsky and Martin 3rd Edition (August 2026) (File)
- Distributional Semantics -- Lenci and Sahlgren (2023) (File)
- Review of Lenci and Sahlgren, Pustejovsky (2024) (File)
- Lecture 6 - Linear Algebra Refresher for Formal Semantics (File)
- Lecture 6 - Types as Vectors (File)
- Lecture 7 -- Distributional Semantics (File)
- Lecture 8 -- Reduction and Prediction (File)
- λ-DCS: Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics (File)
- Reduction II: What the SVD Actually Does (File)
- Count-Based NLP (File)
- What the Inner Product Left Out (File)
- Mechanisms of Skipgram with Negative Sampling (File)
- Contextual Embeddings Why a Word Should Not Have One Vector (File)
- Prediction - Details of SGNS (File)
- SVD Word Embeddings: Where Did the Context Matrix Go? (File)
- Bilinear Maps (Updated 10/11/26) with new material (File)
- Quiz 1 Sample Questions for Study (File)
- Quiz 1 Sample Questions with Answers (File)
Part III — The Algebraic Thread and Geometric Algebra (5 sessions)
Part IV — Functional Geometric Algebra (8 sessions)
Projects
Recitations
- Lab 1: Haskell - setup and basics (File)
- Lab 2: Haskell - Data types, Function application, Higher-order functions (File)
- Recitation 4 - distributional semantics (File)
- Recitation 5 - why go low-dimensional (File)
- Recitation 6 - Prelude VSA (File)
- Recitation 7 - Quiz 1 review (File)