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Date: 28-Jun-2010
From: Marco Pennacchiotti < pennac at yahoo-inc.com >
Subject: ACLWorkshop GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics
 

	
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:42:06
From: Marco Pennacchiotti [pennac at yahoo-inc.com]
Subject: ACLWorkshop GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics

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ACLWorkshop GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics 
Short Title: GEMS-2010 

Date: 16-Jul-2010 - 16-Jul-2010 
Location: Uppsala, Sweden 
Contact: Marco Pennacchiotti 
Contact Email: pennac at yahoo-inc.com 
Meeting URL: http://art.uniroma2.it/gems010/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

ACL 2010 Workshop
GEMS-2010 : GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics

July 16, 2010
Venue A, Room II
Uppsala University, Sweden

URL: http://art.uniroma2.it/gems010/

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). Semantic spaces
based on simple contextual units have been early used in information retrieval.
Later on, more linguistically principled spaces have been introduced for
large-scale natural language learning problems, such as the acquisition of
lexical taxonomies, word sense discrimination, pattern acquisition and
conceptual clustering. More recently,  specialized distributional models have
been successfully applied to solve complex NLP tasks such as question answering,
textual entailment and sentiment analysis.

The goal of GEMS-2010, is to consolidate the experience of the first GEMS
workshop, held at EACL in 2009. GEMS aims to stimulate research on semantic
spaces and distributional methods for NLP, push for an interdisciplinary view,
and amplify exchange of ideas, results and resources among often independent
communities.

In particular, 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://acl2010.org/registration.html

Program:

9:25 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening

Session : Geometry and Semantics

9:30 - 10:00 David Jurgens and Keith Stevens
Capturing Nonlinear Structure in Word Spaces Through Dimensionality Reduction

10:00 - 10:30 Danilo Croce and Daniele Previtali
Manifold Learning for the Semi-supervised Induction of FrameNet Predicates: An
Empirical Investigation

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 

11:00 - 12:10 Invited Talk: 
Katrin Erk
'What is word meaning, really? (And how can distributional models help us
describe it?)' 

Session :  Lexical Acquisition (1)

12:10 - 12:40 Georgiana Dinu
Relatedness Curves for Acquiring Paraphrases

12:40 - 13:10 Emiliano Guevara
A Regression Model of Adjective-Noun Compositionality in Distributional Semantics
		
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch break 

Session : Lexical Acquisition (2)

14:30 - 15:00 Daoud Clarke, Rudi Lutz and David Weir
Semantic Composition with Quotient Algebras
    
15:00 - 15:30 Justin Washtell
Expectation Vectors: A Semiotics Inspired Approach to Geometric Lexical-Semantic
Representation 
	
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 

Session :

16:00 - 16:30 Amit Goyal, Jagadeesh Jagaralamudi, Hal Daumé III and Suresh
Venkatasubramanian
Sketch Techniques for Scaling Distributional Similarity to the Web
    
16:30 - 17:00 Andreas Vlachos, Zoubin Ghahramani and Ted Briscoe
Active Learning for Constrained Dirichlet Process Mixture Models 

	  
17:00 - 17:55 Panel 

17:55 - 18:00 Closing


Workshop Committee

Organizers:

Roberto Basili, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy  
Marco Pennacchiotti, Yahoo! Labs, US

Committee:

Enrique Alfonseca, Google Research, US
Marco Baroni, University of Trento, Italy
Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland, Ireland
John A. Bullinaria, University of Birmingham, UK
Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, US
Katrin Erk, University of Texas, US
Stefan Evert, University of Osnabruck, Germany
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, STLab - ISTC - CNR, Italy
Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead S.A., France
Alpa Jain, Yahoo Labs, US
Jussi Kalgren, Swedish Institute for Computer Science, Sweden 
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University, Germany
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, US
Yves Peirsman, University of Leuven, Belgium
Ana-Maria Popescu, Yahoo Labs, US  
Magnus Sahlgren, Swedish institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Sabine Schulte imWalde, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Hristo Tanev, Yahoo UK, UK
Tim Van de Cruys, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Peter D. Turney, National Research Council Canada, Canada
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.
Sunnyvale, US
pennac at yahoo-inc.com





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