27.89, Calls: Computational Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics/Italy

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Subject: 27.89, Calls: Computational Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics/Italy

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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:50:35
From: Denis Paperno [denis.paperno at unitn.it]
Subject: Distributional Semantics and Linguistic Theory

Full Title: Distributional Semantics and Linguistic Theory 
Short Title: DSALT 

Date: 15-Aug-2016 - 19-Aug-2016
Location: Bolzano, Italy 
Contact Person: Denis Paperno
Meeting Email: dsalt2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://esslli2016.unibz.it/?page_id=256 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 07-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

The DSALT workshop seeks to foster discussion at the intersection of
distributional semantics and various subfields of theoretical linguistics,
with the goal of boosting the impact of distributional semantics on linguistic
research beyond lexical semantic phenomena, as well as broadening the
empirical basis and theoretical tools used in linguistics. We welcome
contributions regarding the theoretical interpretation  of distributional
vector spaces and/or their application to theoretical morphology, syntax,
semantics, discourse, dialogue, and any other subfield of linguistics.
Potential topics of interest include, among others:

* Distributional semantics and morphology: How do results in the
distributional semantics-morphology interface impact theoretical accounts of
morphology? Can distributional models account for inflectional morphology? Can
they shed light on phenomena like productivity and regularity?

* Distributional semantics and syntax: How can compositionality at the
semantic level interact with syntactic structure? Can we go beyond the state
of the art in accounting for the syntax-semantics interface when it interacts
with lexical semantics? How can distributional accounts for gradable syntactic
phenomena, e.g. selectional preferences or argument alternations, be
integrated into theoretical linguistic accounts?

* Distributional semantics and formal semantics: How can distributional
representations be related to the traditional components of a semantics for
natural languages, especially reference and truth? Can distributional models
be integrated with discourse- or dialogue-oriented semantic theories like file
change semantics or inquisitive semantics?

* Distributional semantics and discourse: Distributional semantics has shown
to be able to model some aspects of discourse coherence at a global level
(Landauer and Dumais 1997, a.o.); can it also help with other
discourse-related phenomena, such as the choice of discourse particles,
nominal and verbal anaphora, or the form of referring expressions as discourse
unfolds? 

* Distributional semantics and dialogue: Distributional semantics has
traditionally been mostly static, in the sense that it creates a semantic
representation for a word once and for all. Can it be made dynamic so it can
help model, for example, phenomena related to Questions Under Discussion
(QUDs) in dialogue? Can distributional representations help predict the
relations between utterance units in dialogue?

* Distributional semantics and pragmatics: Distributional semantics is based
on the statistics of language use, and therefore should include information
related to pragmatics of language. How do distributional models relate to such
aspects of pragmatics as focus, pragmatic presupposition, or conversational
implicature?

Invited Speakers:

Marco Baroni (University of Trento) 
Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin)
Aurélie Herbelot (University of Trento) 
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) 
Jason Weston (Facebook) TBC

Call for Papers:

Submissions:

We solicit two-page (plus references) abstracts in at most 11pt font. No
proceedings will be published, so workshop submissions may discuss published
work (as well as unpublished work). Interested authors are encouraged to
submit a tentative title of the submission by January 31, 2016 (this step is
not required but will help us estimate the number of interested authors and
the range of topics). The abstract submission deadline is April 7, 2016.
Submissions are accepted by email at dsalt2016 at gmail.com.

Important Dates:

Deadline for (non-binding) expression of interest: January 31 2016
Deadline for abstract submission: April 7 2016
Author notification: May 15 2016
Workshop dates: August 15-19 2016

Organizers:

Gemma Boleda (University of Trento) 
Denis Paperno (University of Trento)

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