Lecture 19: Entities, QA, Entailment, & Summarization

Topics

  • Coref Resolution, Applications; Winograd Schema;
  • Types of References: Names, Pronouns, Nominals;
  • ML for Coref Resolution;
  • Entity Resolution and Linking; Applications and Evaluation;
  • Intro to QA; Factoid Question Answering; Overview of the Watson project;
  • Textual Entailment; Applications of Entailment;
  • Intro to Summarization; Summarization Types;

Reading: JM Ch23 Links to an external site.;

Slides: Download lecture-19-entities-qa-etc.pdf

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