<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font face="Calibri" size="5">This is a call for participation in the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics *SEM 2013 (Collocated with NAACL 2013, Jointly with SemEval 2013)</font><div><font face="Calibri" size="5">June 13-14 </font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5">Atlanta Georgia</font></div><div><a href="http://clic2.cimec.unitn.it/starsem2013/"><font face="Calibri" size="5">http://clic2.cimec.unitn.it/starsem2013/</font></a></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5"><br></font></div><div><span style="line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="Calibri" size="5">Introduction</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="Calibri" size="5">===========</font></span></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5"><span style="line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The main goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on different aspects of semantic processing. We have a fantastic bouquet of accepted papers (list of accepted papers below). </span><span style="line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">This year’s *SEM conference will be a two-day event co-located with the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (</span><a href="http://naacl2013.naacl.org/" target="_blank" style="line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">NAACL HLT</a><span style="line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">). Also SemEval 2013 will take place on June 14-15. *SEM coincides with ICML from June 16. </span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; ">*SEM will f</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; ">eature the Shared Task on Semantic Textual Similarity </span></font></div><div><a href="http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sts/index.php"><font face="Calibri" size="5">http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sts/index.php</font></a></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5">*SEM is Co-located with SemEval</font></div><div><a href="http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/"><font face="Calibri" size="5">http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/</font></a></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5">Registration is through NAACL 2013, EARLY REGISTRATION ends Friday May 10th</font></div><div><a href="http://naacl2013.naacl.org/Registration.aspx"><font face="Calibri" size="5">http://naacl2013.naacl.org/Registration.aspx</font></a></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5">*SEM 2013 Highlights </font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5">==================</font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5">** Keynote Speaker <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; ">on June 14th 9:30-10:30am</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5">David Forsyth (<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; ">University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne) </span></font></div><div><a href="http://luthuli.cs.uiuc.edu/~daf/"><font face="Calibri" size="5">http://luthuli.cs.uiuc.edu/~daf/</font></a></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5">** Distinguished Panel <span style="line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; ">on June 13th 4:30-6:00pm</span></font></div><div><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font face="Calibri" size="5"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"Toward Deep Natural Language Understanding" </font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Calibri" size="5">Organized by Martha Palmer (University of Colorado at Boulder)</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Calibri" size="5">Panelists </font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Calibri" size="5"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Kevin Knight (University of Southern California/Information Science Institute), </font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Calibri" size="5"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Christopher Manning (Stanford University), </font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Calibri" size="5"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Owen Rambow (Columbia University), </font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Calibri" size="5"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne)</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Calibri" size="5">** Shared Task Semantic Textual Similarity Presentations and Posters, June 13th </font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Calibri" size="5">** Panel discussion on the future of *SEM, SemEval, *SEM Shared Task, IWCS on June 14th 1:30-2:30pm</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Calibri" size="5">** Best Long and Short Paper Awards, on June 14, 5:30-6:00pm</font></p></div><div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Calibri" size="5">List of Accepted *SEM Papers</font></span></div><div><font face="Calibri" size="5">=========================</font></div><div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Calibri" size="5"><div id="main" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 960px; z-index: 1; line-height: 25px; "><div id="primary" class="site-content" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 30px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; width: 640px; "><div id="content" role="main" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px; "><article id="post-140" class="post-140 page type-page status-publish hentry" style="position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 30px; "><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Hansen Andrew Schwartz, Johannes Eichstaedt, Eduardo Blanco, Lukasz Dziurzyński, Margaret L. Kern, Stephanie Ramones and Lyle Ungar</span>)</li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Coarse to Fine Grained Sense Disambiguation in Wikipedia (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Hui Shen, Razvan Bunescu and Rada Mihalcea</span>)</li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Exploring Vector Space Models to Predict the Compositionality of German Noun-Noun Compounds (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Sabine Schulte im Walde and Stefan Müller)</span></li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Metaphor Identification as Interpretation (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Ekaterina Shutova</span>)</li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Montague Meets Markov: Deep Semantics with Probabilistic Logical Form (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Islam Beltagy, Cuong Chau, Gemma Boleda, Dan Garrette, Katrin Erk and Raymond Mooney</span>)</li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Predicting the Compositionality of Multiword Expressions Using Translations in Multiple Languages (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Bahar Salehi and Paul Cook</span>)</li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Semantic Parsing Freebase: Towards Open-domain Semantic Parsing (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Qingqing Cai and Alexander Yates</span>)</li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics: Simulating Logical Calculi with Tensors (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Edward Grefenstette</span>)</li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Using the text to evaluate short answers for reading comprehension exercises (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Andrea Horbach, Alexis Palmer and Manfred Pinkal</span>)</li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><div id="main" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 960px; z-index: 1; display: inline !important; "><div id="primary" class="site-content" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 30px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; 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">A Dataset of Syntactic-Ngrams over Time from a Very Large Corpus of English Books (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Yoav Goldberg and Jon Orwant</span>)</li></ul></div></article></div></div></div></span></li></ul></div></article></div></div></div></span></li></ul><ul style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Distinguishing Common and Proper Nouns (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Judita Preiss and Mark Stevenson</span>)</li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Unsupervised Word Usage Similarity in Social Media Texts (<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Spandana Gella, Paul Cook and Bo Han)</span></li></ul><div>See You All in Atlanta,</div><div><br></div><div>Mona Diab (General Chair)</div><div>Tim Baldwin (PC Co-Chair)</div><div>Marco Baroni (PC Co-Chair)</div></div></article></div></div></div></font></span></div></body></html>