Appel: EACL 2014 Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality

Wed Nov 13 14:30:31 UTC 2013

Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:07:48 +0100
From: Alexandre Allauzen <allauzen at limsi.fr>
Message-ID: <52835D84.90709 at limsi.fr>

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Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality 
(2nd edition)

Co-located with EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden

April 27, 2014

Submission deadline: January 23, 2014

https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop2014

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First Call for Papers

(Apologies for multiple postings)

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in algorithms that
learn and use continuous representations for words, phrases, or
documents in many natural language processing applications. Among many
others, influential proposals that illustrate this trend include latent
Dirichlet allocation, neural network based language models and spectral
methods. These approaches are motivated by improving the generalization
power of the discrete standard models, by dealing with the data sparsity
issue and by efficiently handling a wide context.  Despite the success
of single word vector space models, they are limited since they do not
capture compositionality. This prevents them from gaining a deeper
understanding of the semantics of longer phrases or sentences.

With the growing popularity of these neural and probabilistic methods of
language processing, the scope of this second workshop is extended to
theoretical and conceptual questions regarding:

* their relation to unsupervised distributional representations,

* the encompassing of the compositional aspects of formal models of 
  semantics,

* the role of linguistic theory in the design and development of these
  methods.

Some such pertinent questions include: Should phrase representations and
word representations be of the same sort? Could different linguistic
levels require different modelling approaches? Is compositionality
determined by syntax, and if so, how do we learn/define it? Should word
representations be fixed and obtained distributionally, or should the
encoding be variable?  Should word representations be task-specific, or
should they be general?

In this workshop, we invite submissions of papers on continuous vector
space models for natural language processing. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

* learning algorithms for continuous vector space models,

* their compositionality,

* their use in NLP applications,

* spectral learning for NLP,

* neural networks for NLP,

* phrase, sentence, and document-level distributional representations,

* tensor models,

* distributed semantic representations,

* the role of syntax in compositional models,

* formal and distributional semantic models.

INVITED SPEAKERS

The workshop will showcase presentations from two invited speakers :
Geoffrey Zweig (Microsoft Research) and a second presenter to be
announced soon.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Authors should submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF
format, with up to 2 additional pages for references. The reported
research should be substantially original. The papers will be presented
orally or as posters. All submissions must be in PDF format and must
follow the EACL 2014 formatting requirements
(http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip ). Reviewing will be
double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the
papers; self-reference should be avoided as well.  Submissions must be
made through the Softconf website set up for this workshop:

https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/CVSC/

Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no
distinction will be made between papers presented orally or as posters.

IMPORTANT DATES

23 January 2014     : Submission deadline
20 February 2014    : Notification of acceptance
3 March 2014        : Camera-ready deadline
27 April 2014       : Workshop

ORGANIZERS

Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/Université Paris-Sud, France)
Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento, Italy)
Edward Grefenstette (University of Oxford, UK)
Hugo Larochelle (Université de de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Christopher Manning (Stanford University, USA)
Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nicholas Asher (IRIT-Toulouse)
Marco Baroni (University of Trento)
Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal)
Gemma Boleda (University of Texas)
Antoine Bordes (Université Technologique de Compiègne)
Johan Bos (University of Groningen)
Léon Bottou (Microsoft Research)
Xavier Carreras (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Lucas Champollion (New-York University)
Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge)
Shay Cohen (Columbia University)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University)
Ronan Collobert (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland)
Pino Di Fabbrizio (Amazon)
Georgiana Dinu (University of Trento)
Kevin Duh (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Dean Foster (University of Pennsylvania)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (Università degli Studi di Roma)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh)
Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit)
Larry Moss (Indiana University)
Diarmuid Ó Seaghdha (University of Cambridge)
Sebastian Pado (Universität Stuttgart)
Martha Palmer (University of Colorado)
John Platt (Microsoft Research)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University of London)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University)
Peter Turney (NRC)
Jason Weston (Google)
Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS/Université Paris-Sud)

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