[Corpora-List] CfP - NEW DEADLINE: Towards a formal distributional semantics (IWCS 2013 Workshop)

[BOLEDA TORRENT, GEMMA]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- REVISED DEADLINE: DECEMBER 10TH!!
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IWCS 2013 Workshop: Towards a formal distributional semantics

March 19, 2013, Potsdam, Germany

http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/roberto/IWCS-TFDS2013

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Over the last 50 years, model-theoretic semantics has made great progress
in formalising various phenomena of human language, especially those
related to the compositionality of meaning. It has also left some aspects
largely unexamined: in particular, those concerned with the meaning of
content words, which have been the concern of lexical semantics.
Distributional or vector-space models of meaning, in turn, successfully
model many lexical semantic phenomena, but, despite recent efforts, still
do not account for compositionality or the role of function words.

This workshop aims to foster the integration of formal and distributional
semantics, building on their complementary strengths to produce better
models of meaning in natural language. Its focus is on giving formal
semantics a better handle on lexical semantics, while still preserving the
aspects that have made it useful: for instance, the tight syntax-semantics
interface for phenomena such as quantification, scope, modification and
semantic roles, the notions of truth and extension, and the modeling of
inference, at the level of both lexical items and propositions. Beyond the
goal of better embedding lexical information in formal semantic
representations, we encourage the investigation of the probabilistic
aspects of distributional models in order to handle cases where truth
theory falters (e.g., truth of generic statements).  More generally, the
workshop is open to new ideas about aspects of meaning beyond the level of
truth values, and on how distributional semantics may contribute to the
notion of intension.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Contributions can take the form of theoretical proposals, descriptions of a
particular phenomenon, or experimental investigations. We specifically
welcome collaborations between researchers in formal semantics and
computational linguistics. We look for contributions on the following
topics (list not exhaustive), always from the perspective of integrating
formal and distributional semantics:

* Inferential properties of language both at the propositional and lexical
level (e.g., how to account for entailment as licensed by different types
of adjectives?).

* Truth theory, reference, and extension (e.g., to what extent is there a
relation between distributional representations built from corpora and
models, which exhaustively enumerate individuals in a particular set? How
could this be used to tie distributional representations of words with
specific objects in real or virtual scenarios?).

* Intension (e.g., can distributional models provide an alternative or
complementary account to the definition of intension in terms of possible
world semantics?).

* Syntax-semantics interface (e.g., composition with different types of
verbal arguments).

* Morphology-semantics interface (e.g., exploring the possibility to build
distributional models of derivational and inflectional morphology, for
instance to capture the semantic difference between singular and plural
forms of nouns).

* Representation and mechanics of logical operators (e.g., how to account
for negation, not only in propositions but also with regard to its effects
on the lexicon; how to deal with coordination at the various levels at
which it applies; how to deal with nominal and VP quantifiers?).

* Semantic representation at the lexical and constituent / sentential level
(e.g., what kind of representations do we need to retain lexical
information at the level of the sentence?).


INVITED SPEAKER

Katrin Erk (The University of Texas at Austin)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Nicholas Asher (Université Paul Sabatier / The University of Texas at
Austin)
Marco Baroni (University of Trento)
David Beaver (The University of Texas at Austin)
Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento)
Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge)
Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge)
Katrin Erk (The University of Texas at Austin)
Mohan Ganesalingam (University of Cambridge)
Ed Grefenstette (University of Oxford)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge)
Sebastian Pado (Universitaet Heidelberg)
Manfred Pinkal (Saarland University)
Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University of Oxford)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Stefan Thater (Saarland University)
Jason Utt (University of Stuttgart)
Eva Maria Vecchi (University of Trento)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Aurelie Herbelot, Universitaet Potsdam
Roberto Zamparelli, University of Trento
Gemma Boleda, University of Texas at Austin


SUBMISSIONS

Papers should describe original research and must not exceed 10 pages.
Authors are requested to follow the style guidelines of the IWCS main
conference (available at
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/iwcs2013/author_information.html).

Papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the START
system at https://www.softconf.com/iwcs2013/TFDS2012/. Please contact the
organizers if you have problems using START.

Submissions may be accepted either as a full oral presentation or as
poster. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

December 10th 2012: (Revised) submission deadline.
January 8th 2013: notification of acceptance.
January 25th 2013: final papers due.


CONTACT

For any questions, please write to tfds2013 at gmail.com.
Workshop URL: http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/roberto/IWCS-TFDS2013/

-- 
Gemma Boleda
The University of Texas at Austin
http://gboleda.utcompling.com
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