The lecture schedule is subject to change as the semester progresses.

Date	Topic	Readings	Slides
Thursday, September 6, 2018	Intro and Course Overview		Lecture 0
Tuesday, September 11, 2018	Distributional Semantics Crash Course Homework 1 assigned	A Synopsis of Linguistic Theory, 1930-1955 (Sec. I, III, IV, V) (Firth, 1957) From Frequency to Meaning: Vector Space Models of Semantics (Turney and Patel, 2010) Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality (Mikolov et al, 2013)	Lecture 1
Thursday, September 13, 2018	Model Theory and Compositionality	Model Theory (Sections 1, 2, and 3) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Frege's Philosophy of Language (Section 3) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)	Lecture 2
Tuesday, September 18, 2018	Montague Semantics and Generative Grammar	Semantics in Generative Grammar (up through Section 3.3) (Heim and Kratzer, 1998) [Optional] Montague Semantics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Thursday, September 20, 2018	CCG and Semantic Parsing	A Very Short Introduction to CCG (Steedman, 1996) Semantic Parsing Tutorial (Artzi, 2013) Discussion Questions Here
Tuesday, September 25, 2018	Lexicons (Nothing but Nets :)) Homework 1 due	Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database (Miller et al., 1993) Discussion Questions Here
Thursday, September 27, 2018	Probabilistic Logics (Stephen Bach) Ellie gone for Grace Hopper, Stephen Bach Guest Lecture	Hinge Loss Markov Random Fields and Probabilistic Soft Logic (Section 4 only) (Bach et al., 2017) Probabilistic Soft Logic for Semantic Textual Similarity (Beltagy et al., 2014) Discussion Questions Here
Tuesday, October 2, 2018	Elsewhere in Symbolic Representations of Semantics: DRT and AMR	Open-Domain Semantic Parsing with Boxer (Bos, 2015) Abstract Meaning Representation, A Survey (Tosik, 2015) [Optional] Dynamic Semantics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) [Optional] The State of the Art in Semantic Representation (Abend and Rappoport, 2017) Discussion Questions Here
Thursday, October 4, 2018	Deep Learning for NLP	A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing (Sections: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6) (Goldberg, 2015) Discussion Questions Here
Tuesday, October 9, 2018	Deep Learning for NLP Homework 2 assigned	A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing (Goldberg, 2015)
Thursday, October 11, 2018	Language Modeling for Representation Learning	Skip-Thought Vectors (Kiros et al., 2015) Deep Contextualized Word Representations (Peters et al., 2018) Discussion Questions Here
Tuesday, October 16, 2018	Multilingual Data for Representation Learning	Paraphrasing with Bilingual Parallel Corpora (Bannard and Callison-Burch, 2005) Learned in Translation: Contextualized Word Vectors (McCann et al., 2018) Discussion Questions Here
Thursday, October 18, 2018	Same ideas, more TPUs	BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding (Devlin et al., 2018)
Tuesday, October 23, 2018	Distributional Compositional Semantics Homework 2 due	Nouns are vectors, adjectives are matrices: Representing adjective-noun constructions in semantic space (Baroni and Zamparelli, 2010) Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank (Socher et al., 2013) Discussion Questions Here
Thursday, October 25, 2018	Combining Distributional and Logical Approaches	Retrofitting Word Vectors to Semantic Lexicons (Faruqui et al., 2015) Injecting Logical Background Knowledge into Embeddings for Relation Extraction (Rocktaschel et al., 2015) Discussion Questions Here
Tuesday, October 30, 2018	Evaluation: What is a good representation? Homework 3 assigned	GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Natural Language Understanding (Wang et al., 2018) What you can cram into a single $&!#* vector: Probing sentence embeddings for linguistic properties (Conneau et al., 2018) Discussion Questions Here
Thursday, November 1, 2018	TBD Ellie gone for EMNLP
Tuesday, November 6, 2018	Evaluation: What is a good task?	The PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge (Dagan et al., 2006) Inherent Disagreements in Human Judgements of Entailment (Pavlick and Kwiatkowski, 2018) Discussion Questions Here
Thursday, November 8, 2018	Intro to Pragmatics and the Cooperative Principle Homework 3 due	Logic and Conversation (Grice, 1975) Implicature (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Tuesday, November 13, 2018	Bayesian Models of Pragmatics Homework 4 assigned	Pragmatic language interpretation as probabilistic inference (Goodman and Frank, 2016) Learning in the Rational Speech Acts Model (Monroe and Potts, 2015)
Thursday, November 15, 2018	Prototype Theory and Default Logic	Principles of Categorization (Rosch, 1978) On the adequacy of prototype theory as a theory of concepts (Osherson and Smith, 1981)
Tuesday, November 20, 2018	Frames and Scripts	Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1981) Scripts, Plans, and Knowledge (Shanck and Abelson, 1975)
Tuesday, November 27, 2018	Language and Vision Homework 4 due	From image descriptions to visual denotations: New similarity metrics for semantic inference over event descriptions (Young et al., 2014) Visually Grounded Meaning Representations (Silberer et al., 2016)
Thursday, November 29, 2018	Situated Language Learning	Learning Language Games through Interaction (Wang et al., 2016) Understanding Grounded Language Learning Agents (Hill et al., 2017)
Tuesday, December 4, 2018	Miscellaneous Topics in Knowledge Representation