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A lecture note from the Foundations of Natural Language Processing (FNLP) course, specifically Lecture 14, which focuses on lexical semantics. The lecture discusses the importance of understanding word meanings in building a question answering system and introduces various challenges in lexical semantics, such as word senses, synonyms, hyponyms, and polysemy. The lecture also presents WordNet as a solution to some of these problems.
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Alex Lascarides (slides by Lascarides, Schneider, Koehn, Goldwater)
6 March 2020
Alex Lascarides FNLP Lecture 14 6 March 2020
Why is lexical semantics important for building such a system?
When was Barack Obama born?
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961
What plants are native to Scotland?
A new chemical plant was opened in Scotland.
Which animals love to swim?
Polar bears love to swim in the freezing waters of the Arctic.
What is a good way to remove wine stains?
Salt is a great way to eliminate wine stains
I put my money in the bank. vs. He rested at the bank of the river. I like playing squash vs. I like drinking squash
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