Programme

Day 1: Sunday 2nd September

09:30 - 10:00: Registration

10:00 - 10:10: Opening Remarks - Martha Lewis

10:10 - 10:30: Introduction to Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics - Bob Coecke

10:30 - 11:00: Internal wiring of Cartesian verbs and prepositions - Bob Coecke, Martha Lewis and Dan Marsden

11:00 - 11:30: Break

11:30 - 12:00: Applying Distributional Compositional Categorical Models of Meaning to Language Translation - Brian Tyrrell

12:00 - 12:30: Translating and Evolving: Towards a Model of Language Change in DisCoCat - Tai-Danae Bradley, Martha Lewis, Jade Master and Bradley Theilman

12:30 - 14:30: Lunch

14:30 - 15:00: Towards functorial language-games - Jules Hedges and Martha Lewis

15:00 - 15:30: Conscious Perception as a Non-Classical Language of Thought - Xerxes Arsiwalla, Martha Lewis, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Paul Verschure

15:30 - 16:00: Break

16:00 - 16:30: Quantum Semantic Correlations in Hate Speeches - Francesco Galofaro, Zeno Toffano and Bich-Liên Doan

16:30 - 17:00: Information flow in free pregroup models of natural languages - Peter Hines

17:00 - 17:30: Wrap-up day 1

17:30: Close

Day 2 : Monday 3rd September

14:00 - 15:15: Keynote: Paul Smolensky

15:15 - 15:45: Classical Copying versus Quantum Entanglement in Natural Language: the Case of VP-ellipsis - Gijs Wijnholds and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

15:45 - 16:15: Break

16:15 - 16:45: Compositional Distributional Discourse Analysis - Bob Coecke, Giovanni de Felice, Dan Marsden and Alexis Toumi