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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Wednesday 15th | |
| 09:00–09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30–10:30 | Invited Talk 1: Semantics of Language Grounding Regina Barzilay |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00–12:30 | Lexical Semantics |
| 11:00–11:30 | Leveraging a Semantically Annotated Corpus to Disambiguate Prepositional Phrase Attachment Guy Emerson and Ann Copestake |
| 11:30–12:00 | Prepositional Phrase Attachment Problem Revisited: how Verbnet can Help Daniel Bailey, Yuliya Lierler and Benjamin Susman |
| 12:00–12:30 | From Adjective Glosses to Attribute Concepts: Learning Different Aspects That an Adjective Can Describe Omid Bakhshandh and James Allen |
| 12:30–13:00 | Lightning talks |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–15:30 | Poster Session (short papers) |
| 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 | |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00–17:00 | Discourse and Generation |
| 16:00–16:30 | Hierarchical Statistical Semantic Realization for Minimal Recursion Semantics Matic Horvat, Ann Copestake and Bill Byrne |
| 16:30–17:00 | Uniform Surprisal at the Level of Discourse Relations: Negation Markers and Discourse Connective Omission Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg |
| 17:00–18:00 | Probabilistic Semantics |
| 17:00–17:30 | Efficiency in Ambiguity: Two Models of Probabilistic Semantics for Natural Language Daoud Clarke and Bill Keller |
| 17:30–18:00 | On the Proper Treatment of Quantifiers in Probabilistic Logic Semantics Islam Beltagy and Katrin Erk |
Thursday 16th | |
| 09:30–10:30 | Invited Talk 2: Deep Learning of Semantic Representations Yoshua Bengio |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00–12:30 | Distributional Methods |
| 11:00–11:30 | Mr Darcy and Mr Toad, gentlemen: distributional names and their kinds Aurélie Herbelot |
| 11:30–12:00 | Feeling is Understanding: From Affective to Semantic Spaces Elias Iosif and Alexandros Potamianos |
| 12:00–12:30 | Automatic Noun Compound Interpretation using Deep Neural Networks and Word Embeddings Corina Dima and Erhard Hinrichs |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30–15:00 | Reference and Incrementality |
| 13:30–14:00 | Integrating Non-Linguistic Events into Discourse Structure Julie Hunter, Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides |
| 14:00–14:30 | A Discriminative Model for Perceptually-Grounded Incremental Reference Resolution Casey Kennington, Livia Dia and David Schlangen |
| 14:30–15:00 | Incremental Semantics for Dialogue Processing: Requirements, and a Comparison of Two Approaches Julian Hough, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen and Jonathan Ginzburg |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee |
| 15:30–18:00 | Open Space Event |
Friday 17th | |
| 09:30–10:30 | Invited Talk 3: Is There Any Logic in Logical Forms? Ann Copestake |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00–12:30 | Parsing and Grammars |
| 11:00–11:30 | Semantic Dependency Graph Parsing Using Tree Approximations Željko Agić, Alexander Koller and Stephan Oepen |
| 11:30–12:00 | Semantic construction with graph grammars Alexander Koller |
| 12:00–12:30 | Layers of Interpretation: On Grammar and Compositionality Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, Stephan Oepen, Woodley Packard and Ann Copestake |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30–15:00 | Dialogue and Pragmatics |
| 13:30–14:00 | Pragmatic Rejection Julian J. Schlöder and Raquel Fernandez |
| 14:00–14:30 | Feedback in Conversation as Incremental Semantic Update Arash Eshghi, Christine Howes, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver |
| 14:30–15:00 | Dynamics of Public Commitments in Dialogue Antoine Venant and Nicholas Asher |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee |
| 15:30–16:30 | Logic and Complexity |
| 15:30–16:00 | Simple Interval Temporal Logic for Natural Language Assertion Descriptions Reyadh Alluhaibi |
| 16:00–16:30 | How hard is this query? Measuring the Semantic Complexity of Schema-agnostic Queries Andre Freitas, Juliano Efson Sales, Siegfried Handschuh and Edward Curry |