Technion - Israel Institute of Technology  
236298 - Computational Semantics for Natural Language
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Announcements

Computational Linguistics Group Meetings
Hello all,
This semester we will have a series of selected talks in different areas of
computational and mathematical linguistics.
The meetings will be held every few weeks on Mondays 14:30-16:00 in room
Taub 601, Starting on 14.3.04.
Any of you who is interested in receiving updates on upcoming talks,
please send an e-mail to sivansacs.technion.ac.il.
The full program will also soon be published on
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~lcl/ling/program.html .
Created on 3/3/2005, 16:39:10  
Moed B
Since nobody has affirmatively replied to the previous message, we are to announce that Moed B exam is canceled.
Created on 2/3/2005, 16:03:14  
Moed B
Anyone who is interested in attending MOED B, please write an e-mail about it to Gilad by the end of the month (28/2).
Last updated on 22/2/2005, 11:43:45  
Exam MOED A
The grades are available via GR++, and the exams were returned to the secretariat.
Created on 10/2/2005, 10:49:02  
Final grades
We intend to publish the final grades at the beginning of next week, but only for students who submit exercises 6+7 by the end of this week.
The others will get LO HESHLIM until the exercises are submitted.
The final deadline for the submission of exercises 6+7 is 28/2. No submission will be accepted after the 28/2.
Last updated on 8/2/2005, 15:04:03  
Exercise 5
was returned to the secretariat.
Created on 2/2/2005, 15:46:32  
Grail - output dvi file
If you have troubles creating the output dvi file, you should probably change the content of your PATH environment variable.
The first value in the list of paths should be:
- /usr/local/bin (if you are working on stud1)
- /usr/local/teTeX/bin (if you are working on csd)

You can set the right value by executing the following shell command (assuming you are using cshell):
- setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH (on stud1)
- setenv PATH /usr/local/teTeX/bin:$PATH (on csd)
Created on 30/1/2005, 11:32:23  
Yoad's admission hour
Yoad's admission hour this week is Wednesday 12-13, rather than Thursday.
Created on 30/1/2005, 11:22:05  
two corrections in ex7
see in the "assigments" area.
Created on 20/1/2005, 16:05:15  
another small typo in intensional lexicon was corrected
In the type and lambda term for "believe".
See the updated lexicon under either the "course material" section or
here (ps, pdf).
Thanks to Iddit Shalem for her correction.
Last updated on 16/1/2005, 16:55:00  
Exercise 7 and a lexicon
Exercise 7 is on the web. The due date is the same as for exercise 6 (2/2), but it is strongly recommended to solve ex7 before ex6.
The lexicon from the last lecture, which is also relevant for ex7, can be found here.
Note that the lexicon includes some small changes, following corrections proposed in class.
Last updated on 16/1/2005, 15:51:03  
Exercise 6
Exercise 6 is on the web. The deadline for submission is 2/2/05.
In this exercise you will be working with Grail. Consult the instructions in:
http://webcourse.cs.technion.ac.il/236298/Winter2004-2005/en/ho_Grail.html
Note that Grail runs only on csd/stud1. If you don't have an account on csd
(which is probably the case if you are undergraduate) then work under directory
homedir in your stud1 account. The 20Mb you have there should be enough.
Created on 30/12/2004, 10:42:02  
Next week
The class of next week (23/12) - both lecture and tutorial - is canceled.
Created on 16/12/2004, 16:33:22  
Exercise 5
is on the web. Due date: 20/12/2004.
Created on 13/12/2004, 16:46:00  
A reminder on this week's lecture and tutorial
The lecture and the tutorial are on Tuesday 7/12 instead of Thursday 9/12.
Created on 5/12/2004, 14:36:31  
Exercise #4 - new due date
Please submit your solved ex4 to Gilad's mailbox (Taub 5th floor)
anytime on (or before) next Sunday (12/12).
Created on 5/12/2004, 09:52:01  
Lambda Calculus
Lecture notes on Lambda-Calculus can be found in the course webpage under "Course Material -> Miscellaneous".
They include all the definitions from class.
Created on 2/12/2004, 13:46:58  
Exercise 4
is on the web. Due date: 09/12/2004.
Created on 28/11/2004, 22:46:14  
Exercise 3 question 2a
The relevant entailment relations are the following:

John is a student, Mary is [fond of [every student]] => Mary is fond of John
John is a student, Mary is [fond of [no student]] => Mary is not fond of John

(Ignore the reference to exercise 2)
Created on 17/11/2004, 16:52:08  
Exercise 3
is on the web. Due date: 18/11/2004.
Created on 10/11/2004, 14:54:38  
Exercise 2
is on the web. Due date: 11/11/2004.
Created on 30/10/2004, 11:44:23  
Tutorial 2 (28/10/2004)
Handouts for the tutorial are on the web.
Created on 28/10/2004, 09:37:55  
Exercise 1, question 2a: a clarification
An ambiguous sentence S1 (like sentence (1)) entails (is entailed by) an
unambiguous sentence S2 iff every reading of S1 entails (is entailed by) S2.
Created on 26/10/2004, 14:25:59