Programme and Proceedings
Proceedings
The full proceedings are available here online (and also via the ACL Anthology):
Schedule details are also available in the conference handbook.
Recordings
You can view recordings of the talks, with slides, here via QMUL's Q-Review system. Unfortunately a fault meant that Friday's talks have no audio (sorry! guess you can still watch the slides ...) but the rest should be OK.
- Wednesday:
- Keynote: Regina Barzilay
- Lexical Semantics session
- Discourse & Generation session
- Probabilistic Semantics session
- Thursday:
- Keynote: Yoshua Bengio
- Distributional Methods session
- Reference & Incrementality session
- Friday (audio problem, sorry):
- Keynote: Ann Copestake
- Parsing & Grammars session
- Dialogue & Pragmatics session
- Logic & Complexity session
Conference Schedule
| Sat 11th | Sun 12th | Mon 13th | Tue 14th | Wed 15th | Thu 16th | Fri 17th | ||||||
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| Hackathon | ISO meetings | Workshops | Main Conference | |||||||||
| 9 | 9:30 | Hackathon | Hackathon | ISO meetings | Workshops | Introduction (video) | ||||||
| 9:30 | 10 | Keynote: Regina Barzilay (video) |
Keynote: Yoshua Bengio (video) |
Keynote: Ann Copestake (video) |
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| 10 | 10:30 | |||||||||||
| 10:30 | 11 | coffee | coffee | coffee | ||||||||
| 11 | 11:30 | Lexical Semantics (papers 22, 26, 27) (video) |
Distributional Methods (papers 56, 59, 61) (video) |
Parsing & Grammars (papers 42, 52, 80) (video) |
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| 11:30 | 12 | |||||||||||
| 12 | 12:30 | |||||||||||
| 12:30 | 1 | Lightning Talks | lunch | lunch | ||||||||
| 1 | 1:30 | lunch | lunch | |||||||||
| 1:30 | 2 | Reference & Incrementality (papers 34, 38, 53) (video) |
Dialogue & Pragmatics (papers 17, 62, 65) (video) |
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| 2 | 2:30 | Workshops | Poster session | |||||||||
| 2:30 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 3:30 | coffee | coffee | |||||||||
| 3:30 | 4 | coffee | Open Space Event ("unconference") |
Logic & Complexity (papers 23, 82) (video) |
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| 4 | 4:30 | Discourse & Generation (papers 69, 75) (video) |
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| 4:30 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 5:30 | Probabilistic Semantics (papers 63, 71) (video) |
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| 5:30 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Evening | Reception | Dinner & Boat Trip | ||||||||||
Session & Paper Details
Accepted Long Papers
List of accepted long papers, with oral presentation:
Pragmatic Rejection
Julian J. Schlöder and Raquel Fernandez
From Adjective Glosses to Attribute Concepts: Learning Different Aspects That an Adjective Can Describe
Omid Bakhshandh and James Allen
Simple Interval Temporal Logic for Natural Language Assertion Descriptions
Reyadh Alluhaibi
Prepositional Phrase Attachment Problem Revisited: how Verbnet can Help
Daniel Bailey, Yuliya Lierler and Benjamin Susman
Leveraging a Semantically Annotated Corpus to Disambiguate Prepositional Phrase Attachment
Guy Emerson and Ann Copestake
Integrating Non-Linguistic Events into Discourse Structure
Julie Hunter and Nicholas Asher
A Discriminative Model for Perceptually-Grounded Incremental Reference Resolution
Casey Kennington, Livia Dia and David Schlangen
Semantic Dependency Graph Parsing Using Tree Approximations
Željko Agić, Alexander Koller and Stephan Oepen
Semantic construction with graph grammars
Alexander Koller
Incremental Semantics for Dialogue Processing: Requirements, and a Comparison of Two Approaches
Julian Hough, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen and Jonathan Ginzburg
Mr Darcy and Mr Toad, gentlemen: distributional names and their kinds
Aurélie Herbelot
Feeling is Understanding: From Affective to Semantic Spaces
Elias Iosif and Alexandros Potamianos
Automatic Noun Compound Interpretation using Deep Neural Networks and Word Embeddings
Corina Dima and Erhard Hinrichs
Feedback in Conversation as Incremental Semantic Update
Arash Eshghi, Christine Howes, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver
Efficiency in Ambiguity: Two Models of Probabilistic Semantics for Natural Language
Daoud Clarke and Bill Keller
Dynamics of Public Commitments in Dialogue
Antoine Venant and Nicholas Asher
Hierarchical Statistical Semantic Realization for Minimal Recursion Semantics
Matic Horvat, Ann Copestake and Bill Byrne
On the Proper Treatment of Quantifiers in Probabilistic Logic Semantics
Islam Beltagy and Katrin Erk
Uniform Information Density at the Level of Discourse Relations: Negation Markers and Discourse Connective Omission
Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg
Layers of Interpretation: On Grammar and Compositionality
Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, Stephan Oepen, Woodley Packard and Ann Copestake
How hard is this query? Measuring the Semantic Complexity of Schema-agnostic Queries
Andre Freitas, Juliano Efson Sales, Siegfried Handschuh and Edward Curry
Accepted Short Papers
List of accepted short papers, with poster and "lightning talk" presentation. A0 posters should be in the portrait format, A1 and smaller in either portrait or landscape.
Exploiting Fine-grained Syntactic Transfer Features to Predict the Compositionality of German Particle Verbs
Stefan Bott and Sabine Schulte im Walde
Multilingual Reliability and “Semantic” Structure of Continuous Word Spaces
Maximilian Köper, Christian Scheible and Sabine Schulte im Walde
Clarifying Intentions in Dialogue: A Corpus Study
Julian J. Schlöder and Raquel Fernandez
From distributional semantics to feature norms: grounding semantic models in human perceptual data
Luana Fagarasan, Eva Maria Vecchi and Stephen Clark
Obtaining a Better Understanding of Distributional Models of German Derivational Morphology
Max Kisselew, Sebastian Padó, Alexis Palmer and Jan Šnajder
Semantic Complexity of Quantifiers and Their Distribution in Corpora
Jakub Szymanik and Camilo Thorne
Sound-based distributional models
Alessandro Lopopolo and Emiel van Miltenburg
Alignment of Eye Movements and Spoken Language for Semantic Image Understanding
Preethi Vaidyanathan, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Cecilia O. Alm, Jeff B. Pelz and Anne R. Haake
From a Distance: Using Cross-lingual Word Alignments for Noun Compound Bracketing
Patrick Ziering and Lonneke van der Plas
Unsupervised Learning of Coherent and General Semantic Classes for Entity Aggregates
Henry Anaya-Sánchez and Anselmo Peñas
Crowdsourced Word Sense Annotations and Difficult Words and Examples
Oier Lopez de Lacalle and Eneko Agirre
Curse or Boon? Presence of Subjunctive Mood in Opinionated Text
Sapna Negi and Paul Buitelaar