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Directory         1.    Marco Pennacchiotti, ACLWorkshop GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics Message 1: ACLWorkshop GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics Date: 28-Jun-2010 From: Marco Pennacchiotti <pennacyahoo-inc.com> Subject: ACLWorkshop GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics E-mail this message to a friend 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: pennacyahoo-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 basiliinfo.uniroma2.it Marco Pennacchiotti Yahoo! Inc. Sunnyvale, US pennacyahoo-inc.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 28-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.