30.1057, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Pragmatics, Semantics/Sweden

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Subject: 30.1057, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Pragmatics, Semantics/Sweden

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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:26:40
From: Arash Eshghi [eshghi.a at gmail.com]
Subject: IWCS’19 Workshop on Vector Semantics for Dialogue and Discourse

 
Full Title: IWCS’19 Workshop on Vector Semantics for Dialogue and Discourse 
Short Title: VSDD 

Date: 24-May-2019 - 24-May-2019
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden 
Contact Person: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Meeting Email: mehrnoosh.sadrzadeh at qmul.ac.uk
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/dialoguevector/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 07-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

(Session of 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics)

We are pleased to announce a workshop on Vector Semantics for Dialogue and
Discourse (VSDD) to be held on May 24th 2019 at the IWCS Conference in
Gothenburg.

Vector models of meaning---both strictly distributional models derived
directly from co-occurrence statistics, and embeddings learned using
representations such as those learnt by a neural network---have revolutionised
computational linguistics via their ability to reflect semantic similarities
and regularities while providing flexibility to model dynamics and change.
However, despite much recent interest in extending these models from the level
of words to larger phrases and sentences, there has been little attempt to
extend these to the realm of discourse and dialogue. This requires a shift in
perspective, moving beyond the static word/sentence view of language to a
dynamic perspective seeing language as a set of mechanisms for real-time
interactions, encompassing a whole range of actions both sub- and
supra-sentential. 

This workshop hopes to bring together researchers using vector space methods
for semantics in the realm of dialogue and discourse to discuss these
challenges and fill this gap.  We are planning this event as an open
discussion session, with three keynote speakers (see below) and otherwise
individual participants having a short slot to discuss a presented poster,
with plenty of time allowed for free interactive exchange.

Topics of interest: 

Distributional Semantics, Vector Space Semantics, Composition Functions, Word
Embeddings in Dialogue Systems, Distributional Pragmatics, Vector Composition
beyond the Sentence, Sub-sentential Vector Composition, Incremental, Semantic
Parsing in Vector Space, Underspecification, Hybrid Symbolic-Distributional
Models, Representation Learning for Dialogue & Discourse, Vector Space Models
of Dialogue & Discourse Context, Language Grounding


Call for Papers:

Call for Abstracts: IWCS’19 Workshop on Vector Semantics for Dialogue and
Discourse (VSDD)

Workshop Date: 24 of May 2019

Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/site/dialoguevector/

IWCS Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/home

Abstract Submission Deadline: 7 April, 2019

Abstract Format: Abstracts should: be anonymous; be no longer than 2 A4 pages
including references; be in .pdf format; use single line spacing, 11pt font
with 1-inch margins. 

2-pages including references; 11pt font; 1 inch margins.

Abstract Submission Page: Go to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcs2019, and select the VSDD track

Keynote Speakers: Gemma Boleda, Raquel Fernandez and Julie Weeds

Programme Co-Chairs:  Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Matthew Purver, Arash Eshghi,
Julian Hough, Ruth Kempson & Pat Healey

Programme Committee: Raffaella Bernardi, Arash Eshghi, Pat Healey, Hannah
Gibson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Aurelie Herbelot, Julian Hough, Chris Howes,
Ruth Kempson, Matthew Purver, Stephen Mcgregor, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, David
Schlangen, Ye Tian, Gljs Wijnholds

Organisers: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Arash Eshghi, Matthew Purver, Julian Hough,
Ruth Kempson & Pat Healey




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