[Corpora] [Corpora-List] Call for Papers: NAACL Workshop on Vector Space Modeling for NLP (June 5, 2015)

[Shay Cohen]

(apologies for cross-postings)

NAACL Workshop on Vector Space Modeling for NLP (June 5, 2015)
http://naacl15vs.github.io

NLP started with methods based on pure symbolic analysis of language.
Statistical methods were introduced to NLP in the 1990s, allowing "soft"
reasoning about language, and made NLP more data-driven. Over the last
decade another step has been taken in this direction -- it was proposed to
represent and analyze language in vector spaces. Now-a-days, context,
symbolic and high-dimensional representations are often augmented with
relatively low-dimensional vector-space representations. Vector space
representations have been successfully used in different areas of NLP such
as syntax and semantics.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore state of the art regarding the
use of vector spaces in order to computationally analyze natural language.
The focus of the workshop will be on the use of vector spaces to learn
latent representations. The goal of the workshop is to bring together
researchers from areas such as deep learning and representation learning,
spectral learning, distributional compositional semantics and others, in
order to see their relevance to each other, and learn about the state of
the art in these areas.

We invite 4-8 page papers for poster presentations in the following areas,
among others:

    * Distributional compositional semantics.
    * Analysis of language using eigenvalue, singular value and tensor
decompositions.
    * Latent-variable and representation learning for language.
    * Neural networks and deep learning in NLP.
    * Word embeddings and their applications.
    * Spectral learning and the method of moments in NLP.

The deadline for submitting papers is March 8, 2015. Please submit your
paper by using the SoftConf system here:
https://www.softconf.com/naacl2015/vsm-nlp.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 24, 2015. Camera-ready
papers are due on April 3, 2015.

Workshop's website: http://naacl15vs.github.io.

Invited Speakers
    Marco Baroni (University of Trento)
    Xavier Carreras (XRCE)
    TBD

Organization
    Phil Blunsom (University of Oxford)
    Shay Cohen (University of Edinburgh)
    Paramveer Dhillon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    Percy Liang (Stanford University)

Reviewers
    Borja Balle (McGill University)
    William Blacoe (University of Edinburgh)
    Xavier Carreras (XRCE)
    Jordan Boyd-Graber (University of Colorado)
    Edward Grefenstette (University of Oxford)
    Karl Moritz Hermann (University of Oxford)
    Jeff Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)
    Ankur Parikh (Carnegie Mellon University)
    Sebastian Reidel (University College London)
    Richard Socher (Stanford University)
    Karl Stratos (Columbia University)
    Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania)
    Eva Maria Vecchi (University of Cambridge)


To contact the organizers with any questions or comments, please send an
email to naacl15vs at gmail.com.
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