CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie. [with apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Sciences https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/home <https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/home> August 6th and 7th 2020 online **** Registration is now open for SemSpace2020 at https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/registration <https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/registration>. Registration is free, but please do register for planning purposes. AIMS AND SCOPE Vector embeddings of word meanings have become a mainstream tool in large scale natural language processing tools. The use of vectors to represent meanings in semantic spaces or feature spaces is also employed in cognitive science. Unrelated to natural language and cognitive science, vectors and vector spaces have been extensively used as models of physical theories and especially the theory of quantum mechanics. Crucial similarities between the vector representations of quantum mechanics and those of natural language are exhibited via bicompact linear logic and compact closed categorical structures in natural language. Exploiting the common ground provided by vector spaces, the proposed workshop will bring together researchers working at the intersection of NLP, cognitive science, and physics, offering to them an appropriate forum for presenting their uniquely motivated work and ideas. The interplay between these three disciplines will foster theoretically motivated approaches to understanding how meanings of words interact with each other in sentences and discourse via grammatical types, how they are determined by input from the world, and how word and sentence meanings interact logically. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): Reasoning in semantic spaces Compositionality in semantic spaces and conceptual spaces Conceptual spaces in linguistics and natural language processing Applications of quantum logic in natural language processing and cognitive science Modelling functional words such as prepositions and relative pronouns in compositional distributional models of meaning Diagrammatic reasoning for natural language processing and cognitive science Modelling so-called ‘non-compositional’ phenomena such as metaphor INVITED SPEAKERS Jennifer Culbertson, University of Edinburgh Andrea E. Martin, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, Nijmegen LIST OF ACCEPTED TALKS (in no particular order) (see also https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/programme <https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/programme>) Russell Richie and Sudeep Bhatia: Similarity judgment within and across categories: A comprehensive model comparison James Hefford, Vincent Wang and Matthew Wilson: Categories of Semantic Concepts Sean Tull and Johannes Kleiner: Integrated Information in Process Theories Sonia Cenceschi, Licia Sbattella and Roberto Tedesco: CALLIOPE: a multi-dimensional model for the prosodic characterisation of Information Units Tiffany Duneau: Solving logical puzzles in DisCoCirc Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Stefano Gogioso, Giovanni De Felice, Alexis Toumi, Nicolo Chiappori and Bob Coecke: Quantum Natural Language Processing on Near-Term Quantum Computers Sergey Slavnov: Cobordisms and commutative categorial grammars Sean Tull: Monoidal Categories for Formal Concept Analysis Lachlan McPheat, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Adriana Correia and Alexis Toumi: Derivations and Vector Semantics of Anaphora with Ellipsis in Lambek Calculus with a Relevant Modality Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Lewis Sword: Gaussianity and typicality in matrix distributional semantics Gemma De Las Cuevas, Andreas Klinger, Martha Lewis and Tim Netzer: Cats climb entails mammals move: preserving hyponymy in compositional distributional semantics Whitney Tabor: On the relationship between syntactic and semantic encoding in vector space language models Please send any queries to semspace2020@easychair.org <mailto:semspace2020@easychair.org> PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Bob Coecke, University of Oxford Stefano Gogioso, University of Oxford Giuseppe Greco, Utrecht University Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology Jules Hedges, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Peter Hines, University of York Alexander Kurz, Chapman University Antonio Lieto, University of Turin, Department of Computer Science Dan Marsden, University of Oxford Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University Richard Moot, CNRS (LIRMM) & University of Montpellier Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii Emmanuel Pothos, City University London Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London Giovanni Sileno, University of Amsterdam Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Oriol Valentín, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Dominic Widdows, Grab Geraint Wiggins, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Queen Mary University of London Gijs Wijnholds, Utrecht University Frank Zenker, Lund University ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Martha Lewis, ILLC, University of Amsterdam Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]