Track D: Language & Meaning

Understanding how AI represents meaning---connects linguistics, philosophy, and NLP.

Reading Order

  1. Course in General Linguistics book
  2. * Peirce's Theory of Signs article
  3. From Frequency to Meaning: Vector Space Models of Semantics paper
  4. * Speech and Language Processing, Ch. 14-18 book
  5. Semantic Parsing: A Survey paper
  6. A Theory of Semiotics book
Key outcome: Understand why 'meaning' is hard and how embeddings relate to formal semantics.