***** 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
***** PROGRAM *****
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 Coffe 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 - 13:00 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
Lonneke van der Plas
Third-order distributional similarity: A remedy
against data sparseness?
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
-- Session 3 --
14:00 - 14:25 Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado
Paraphrase assessment in structured vector space: Exploring
parameters and datasets
14:25 - 14:50 Francesca Fallucchi and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
SVD Feature Selection for Probabilistic Taxonomy Learning
14:50 - 15:15 Andreas Vlachos, Anna Korhonen and Zoubin Ghahramani
Unsupervised and Constrained Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Verb Clustering
15:15 - 15:40 Tim Van de Cruys
A Non-negative Tensor Factorization Model for Selectional Preference Induction
15:40 - 16:10 SHORT PRESENTATIONS :
Beate Dorow, Florian Laws, Lukas Michelbacher, Christian Scheible and Jason 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 Coffe 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
***** 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
Marco Pennacchiotti
Yahoo! Inc.
Santa Clara
US