Publications

Jointly Learning Sentence Embeddings and Syntax with Unsupervised Tree-LSTMs, J Maillard, S Clark, D Yogatama, Journal of Natural Language Engineering 25 (4), 433–449

Learning Neural Audio Embeddings for Grounding Semantics in Auditory Perception, D Kiela, S Clark, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2017

Speaking, Seeing, Understanding: Correlating Semantic Models with Conceptual Representation in the Brain, Luana Bulat, Stephen Clark and Ekaterina Shutova, Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP 2017), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017

Modelling Metaphor with Attribute-based Semantics, Luana Bulat, Stephen Clark and Ekaterina Shutova, Proceedings of the short papers of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2017), pp.523-528, Valencia, Spain, 2017

RELPRON: A Relative Clause Composition Data Set for Compositional Distributional Semantics. Laura Rimell, Jean Maillard, Tamara Polajnar and Stephen Clark. Computational Linguistics, 42(4), 2016

Virtual Embodiment: A Scalable Long-Term Strategy for Artificial Intelligence research. Douwe Kiela, Luana Bulat, Anita Lilla Verő and Stephen Clark. NIPS Workshop on Machine Intelligence (MAIN), Barcelona, Spain, 2016

Laura Rimell and Eva Maria Vecchi. SLEDDED: A Proposed Dataset of Event Descriptions for Evaluating Phrase Representations. Proceedings of The First Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP (RepEval), Berlin, Germany.

Expected F-Measure Training for Shift-Reduce Parsing with Recurrent Neural Networks. Wenduan Xu, Michael Auli and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2016), San Diego, CA, 2016

Vision and Feature Norms: improving automatic feature norm learning through cross-modal maps. Luana Bulat, Douwe Kiela and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2016), San Diego, CA, 2016

What Happens Next? Event Prediction using a Compositional Neural Network Model. Mark Granroth-Wilding and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16), Phoenix, Arizona, 2016

Stephen Clark, Laura Rimell, Tamara Polajnar and Jean Maillard. The Categorial Framework for Compositional Distributional Semantics. Technical Report, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, 2016 [PDF]

Vector Space Models of Lexical Meaning. Stephen Clark. Chapter 16. Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Contemporary Semantics — second edition, edited by Shalom Lappin and Chris Fox. 2015 [PDF]

Building a Shared World: mapping distributional to model-theoretic semantic spaces. Aurelie Herbelot and Eva Maria Vecchi. Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015. Received honorable mention for best paper.

Multi- and Cross-Modal Semantics Beyond Vision: Grounding in Auditory Perception. Douwe Kiela and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015

Visual Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Transferred ConvNet Features. Douwe Kiela, Ivan Vulic and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015

Specializing Word Embeddings for Similarity or Relatedness. Douwe Kiela, Felix Hill and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the Short Papers of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015

An Exploration of Discourse-Based Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Semantics. Tamara Polajnar, Laura Rimell and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the EMNLP 2015 Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-Level Semantics (LSDSem 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015

CCG Supertagging with a Recurrent Neural Network. Wenduan Xu, Michael Auli and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the Short Papers of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015), Beijing, China, 2015

Grounding Semantics in Olfactory Perception. Douwe Kiela, Luana Fagarasan and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the Short Papers of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015), Beijing, China, 2015

Exploiting Image Generality for Lexical Entailment Detection. Douwe Kiela, Laura Rimell, Ivan Vulic and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the Short Papers of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015), Beijing, China, 2015

Low-Rank Tensors for Verbs in Compositional Distributional Semantics. Daniel Fried, Tamara Polajnar and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the Short Papers of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015), Beijing, China, 2015

Learning Adjective Meanings with a Tensor-Based Skip-Gram Model. Jean Maillard and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2015), Beijing, China, 2015

From Distributional Semantics to Feature Norms: grounding semantic models in human perceptual data. Luana Fagarasan, Eva Maria Vecchi and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2015), London, UK

Using Sentence Plausibility to Learn the Semantics of Transitive Verbs. Tamara Polajnar, Laura Rimell and Stephen Clark. NIPS workshop on Learning Semantics, Montreal, Canada, 2014

From Distributional Semantics to Feature Norms: grounding semantic models in human perceptual data. Luana Fagarasan, Eva Maria Vecchi and Stephen Clark. NIPS workshop on Learning Semantics, Montreal, Canada, 2014

Reducing Dimensions of Tensors in Type-Driven Distributional Semantics. Tamara Polajnar, Luana Fagarasan and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP-14), Doha, Qatar, 2014

Improving Multi-Modal Representations using Image Dispersion: why less is sometimes more. Douwe Kiela, Felix Hill, Anna Korhonen and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the Short Papers of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore, MD, 2014

The Frobenius Anatomy of Word Meanings II: possessive relative pronouns. Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Stephen Clark and Bob Coecke. Journal of Logic and Computation, doi: 10.1093/logcom/exu027, 2014

A Systematic Study of Semantic Vector Space Model Parameters. Douwe Kiela and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (CVSC) at EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014

A Type-Driven Tensor-Based Semantics for CCG. Jean Maillard, Stephen Clark and Edward Grefenstette. Proceedings of the EACL 2014 Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics Workshop (TTNLS), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014

Evaluation of Simple Distributional Compositional Operations on Longer Texts. Tamara Polajnar, Laura Rimell and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, Iceland, 2014

Improving Distributional Semantic Vectors through Context Selection and Normalisation. Tamara Polajnar and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2014), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014

Concrete Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning, Edward Grefenstette, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Stephen Clark, Bob Coecke and Stephen Pulman. Computing Meaning, Volume 4, pp.71-86, Harry Bunt, Johan Bos and Stephen Pulman (eds), Springer, 2014

Detecting Compositionality of Multi-Word Expressions using Nearest Neighbours in Vector Space Models. Douwe Kiela and Stephen Clark. Proceedings of the Short Papers of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP-13). Seattle, WA. 2013

UCAM-CORE: Incorporating structured distributional similarity into STS. Tamara Polajnar, Laura Rimell, and Douwe Kiela. Proceedings of *SEM 2013 (shared task), Atlanta, Georgia. 2013

The Frobenius Anatomy of Relative Pronouns. Stephen Clark, Bob Coecke and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh. Proceedings of the 13th meeting of the ACL SIG for the Mathematics of Language (MOL-13), Sofia, Bulgaria

Type-Driven Syntax and Semantics for Composing Meaning Vectors. Stephen Clark. Quantum Physics and Linguistics: A Compositional, Diagrammatic Discourse, pp.359-377, Chris Heunen, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, and Edward Grefenstette (eds), Oxford University Press, 2013 [PDF]