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SUMMARY:Extracting meaning from text - Professor Ann Copestake\, Computer 
 Laboratory
DTSTART:20120525T170000Z
DTEND:20120525T181500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Xavier Moya
DESCRIPTION:One of the main long-term goals of automatic human language pr
 ocessing has been to produce computationally-tractable representations of 
 what a text means. This includes determining the relationships between ent
 ities and events mentioned explicitly (e.g.\, `who did what to whom')\, wo
 rking out some of the implicit content (e.g.\, which `Clinton' are we talk
 ing about) and making inferences (e.g.\, if X assassinated Y\, then X kill
 ed Y - unless `assassinate' is being used metaphorically). I'll outline so
 me of the technology we're investigating to address some of these tasks on
  a large scale and describe how the results can be used in applications. W
 ith the aid of some computer-generated poetry\, I'll also show that these 
 techniques can reveal surprising aspects of language use.
LOCATION:Old Combination Room (OCR)\, Wolfson College
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