20.666, Confs: Computational Linguistics, Semantics/Greece

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Subject: 20.666, Confs: Computational Linguistics, Semantics/Greece

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Date: 02-Mar-2009
From: Marco Pennacchiotti < pennac at yahoo-inc.com >
Subject: GEMS, Workshop on Semantic Spaces

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Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:13:35
From: Marco Pennacchiotti [pennac at yahoo-inc.com]
Subject: GEMS, Workshop on Semantic Spaces

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GEMS, Workshop on Semantic Spaces 

Date: 31-Mar-2009 - 31-Mar-2009 
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact: Marco Pennacchiotti 
Contact Email: pennac at yahoo-inc.com 
Meeting URL: http://art.uniroma2.it/gems 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Call for Participation

EACL 2009 Workshop
GEMS : GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics

March 31, 2009

Athens, Greece
Megaron Athens International Conference Center
Room MC.3

URL : http://art.uniroma2.it/gems/

Distributional models and semantic spaces represent a core topic in
contemporary computational linguistics for their impact on advanced tasks
and on other knowledge fields (such as social science and the humanities).

The goal of the GEMS workshop is to further stimulate research on semantic
spaces  and distributional methods for NLP, by adopting an interdisciplinary
approach to allow a proper exchange of ideas, results and resources among
often independent  communities. In particular, the workshop will provide a
common ground for a fruitful discussion among experts of distributional
approaches, collocational corpus analysis and machine learning; researchers
interested in the use of statistical models in NLP applications (e.g.
question answering, summarization and textual entailment) and in other
fields of science; and experts in formal computational semantics.

The workshop aims at gathering contemporary contributions to large scale
problems in meaning representation, acquisition and use, based on
distributional and vector space models. The workshop aims also to shed new
light on the use of such  techniques  on complex linguistic tasks, such as
linguistic knowledge acquisition, semantic role labeling, textual entailment
recognition, question answering, document understanding/summarization and
ontology learning.

Registration
Register at:
http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/registration

Workshop Committee

Organizers:
Roberto Basili, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Marco Pennacchiotti, Saarland University, Germany

Committee
Marco Baroni, University of Trento, Italy
Johan Bos, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
John A. Bullinaria, University of Birmingham, UK
Rodolfo Dal Monte, University of Venice, Italy
Katrin Erk, University of Texas, US
Stefan Evert, University of Osnabruck, Germany
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Reinvent Technology Inc., Canada
Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California, US
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy
Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Will Lowe, University of Nottingham, UK
Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex, UK
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Saif Mohammad, University of Maryland, US
Sebastian Pado, Stanford University, US
Patrick Pantel, Yahoo! Research, US
Massimo Poesio, University of Trento, Italy
Magnus Sahlgren, Swedish institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Fabrizio Sebastiani, CNR, Italy
Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto, Canada
Sabine Schulte imWalde, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Peter D. Turney, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Dominic Widdows, Google Research, US
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

Contacts:

Roberto Basili
Department of Computer Science
University of Roma Tor Vergata
Italy
basili at info.uniroma2.it

Marco Pennacchiotti
Yahoo! Inc.
Santa Clara 
US
pennac at yahoo-inc.com 

8:50 - 9:00 Welcome 

9:00 - 9:50 
Invited Talk: 
Patrick Pantel
''Lexical Semantics in the Prime Time: Applications to Web Search'' 

 -- Session 1 --

9:50 - 10:15 
Marco Baroni and Alessandro Lenci
One Distributional Memory, Many Semantic Spaces 

10:15 - 10:40 
Yves Peirsman and Dirk Speelman
Word Space Models of Lexical Variation 

10:40 - 11:00 
Coffee Break 

 -- Session 2 --

11:00 - 11:25 
Klaus Rothenhausler and Hinrich Schuetze
Unsupervised Classification with Dependency Based Word Spaces 

11:25 - 11:50
 Lidan Zhang and Kwok-Ping Chan 
A Study of Convolution Tree Kernel with Local Alignment  

11:50 - 12:15 
Amaç Herdagdelen and Marco Baroni 
BagPack: A General Framework to Represent Semantic Relations  

12:15 - 12:45
Short Presentations:

Fridolin Wild, Bernhard Hoisl and Gaston Burek 
Positioning for Conceptual Development using Latent Semantic Analysis

Ruslan Mitkov, Le An Ha, Andrea Varga and Luz Rello 
Semantic Similarity: Which is the Best Method to Compute it? 
Extrinsic Evaluation Based on the Choice of Distractors in Multiple-choice Tests

12:45 - 13:45 
Lunch Break 

 -- Session 3 --

13:45 - 14:10 
Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado 
Paraphrase Assessment in Structured Vector Space: Exploring Parameters and Datasets

14:10 - 14:35 Francesca Fallucchi and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto 
SVD Feature Selection for Probabilistic Taxonomy Learning  

14:35 - 15:00 Andreas Vlachos, Anna Korhonen and Zoubin Ghahramani 
Unsupervised and Constrained Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Verb Clustering  

15:00 - 15:25 Tim Van de Cruys 
A Non-negative Tensor Factorization Model for Selectional Preference Induction  

15:25 - 16:00 
Short Presentations:
Beate Dorow, Florian Laws, Lukas Michelbacher, C. Scheible and J. Utt 
A Graph-Theoretic Algorithm for Automatic Extension of Translation Lexicons  

Mona Diab and Madhav Krishna 
Handling Sparsity for Verb Noun Multi-Word Expression Token Classification  

16:00 - 16:30 
Coffee Break 

 --Session 4 --

16:30 - 16:55 
Eyal Sagi, Stefan Kaufmann and Brady Clark 
Semantic Density Analysis: Comparing Word Meaning across Time and Phonetic Space  

16:55 - 17:20 
Daoud Clarke 
Context-theoretic Semantics for Natural Language: An Overview  

17:20 - 17:45 
Panel 

17:45 - 18:00 
Best Paper

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