With apologies for cross-posting FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================ Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics and Cognitive Science Co-located with QPL-2016 Date: 11th June 2016, 09:30-18:00 Place: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland McCance Building, Room 319 The programme is now finalised and available online! Website: https://sites.google.com/site/semspworkshop <https://sites.google.com/site/semspworkshop> General enquiries: slpcs2016@easychair.org <mailto:slpcs2016@easychair.org> INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- * Hans Briegel, University of Innsbruck - Projective Simulation for Learning and Agency * Peter Gärdenfors, University of Lund - The Role of Domains in the Representation of Word Meaning * Dominic Widdows, Microsoft - Semantics Spaces: Successes and Goals SHORT DESCRIPTION ----------------- Exploiting the common ground provided by the concept of a vector space, the workshop aims to 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, how diagrammatic reasoning depicts and simplifies this interaction, how language models are determined by input from the world, and how word and sentence meanings interact logically. CONTRIBUTED LONG TALKS ---------------------- * Daniela Ashoush and Bob Coecke. Dual density operators and natural language meaning * Josef Bolt, Bob Coecke, Fabrizio Genovese, Martha Lewis, Dan Marsden and Robin Piedeleu. Interacting Conceptual Spaces * Dimitri Kartsaklis. Coordination in Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics * Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh. Quantifier Scope in Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics * William Zeng and Bob Coecke. Quantum algorithms for compositional natural language processing CONTRIBUTED SHORT TALKS ----------------------- * Stefano Gogioso. A corpus-based toy model for DisCoCat * Stephen McGregor, Matthew Purver and Geraint Wiggins. Words, Concepts, and the Geometry of Analogy * John van der Wetering. Entailment Relations on Distributions REGISTRATION ------------ The registration fee is GBP 10. If you also want to attend QPL 2016, the total fee is GBP 50. Registration is now open (the system will give you the option to select if you want to attend only the workshop or QPL + workshop): https://sites.google.com/site/semspworkshop/registration <https://sites.google.com/site/semspworkshop/registration> PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- * Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology * Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge * Bob Coecke, University of Oxford * Liane Gabora, University of British Columbia * Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh * Peter Hines, University of York * Aleksandra Kislak-Malinowska, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn * Daniel Marsden, University of Oxford * Glyn Morrill, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya * Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications, Inc * Stanley Peters, University of Stanford * Stephen Pulman, University of Oxford * Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London * Sebastian Riedel, University College London * Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London * Frank Zenker, University of Konstanz ORGANIZATION ------------ * Dimitrios Kartsaklis, Queen Mary University of London * Martha Lewis, University of Oxford * Laura Rimell, University of Cambridge ADVISORY COMMITTEE ------------------ * Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge * Bob Coecke, University of Oxford * Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London Martha Lewis Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford martha.lewis@cs.ox.ac.uk [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]