NLP Tuesday Check-In: Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Name: __________________________________________________

Checking In

How well are you attending to your own wellness this week?

      Not at all ☐— — — — — — — — — —☐ Very well

How much time did you spend on CS159 outside of class this week? ____________________________________


Shared Reading

The following key terms were important to this week’s reading:

word sense                       lexical sample task
zeugma                           all-words task
WordNet                          semantic concordance
gloss                            most frequent sense
synset                           one sense per discourse
supersense                       null hypothesis
word sense disambiguation        bootstrap test
  1. What is the role of significance testing in NLP experiments?




  1. Give an example of a zeugma that was not in the text book.




  1. Why do you think most frequent sense is such a strong baseline?

















Optional Reading

Which paper did you read?




List at least 3 things you learned from other presentations.























Reflection

How prepared were you for today’s class?

      Not at all ☐— — — — — — — — — —☐ Very well

What would you like me to know about how your groups’ discussions went?