Computing Semantics with Types, Frames and Related Structures

Workshop at ESSLLI 2021

July 26-27, 2021

Held virtually

Invited speakers

  • Jean-Philippe Bernardy (University of Gothenburg)

  • Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg)

  • Justyna Grudzińska (University of Warsaw)

Program (all times are CEST)


Monday, July 26


09:45 - 11:15 Jean-Philippe Bernardy (invited speaker)

Modalities for Functional Programming, Logic and Semantics


11:30 - 12:10 William Babonnaud

On the dual interpretation of nouns as types and predicates in semantic type theories


12:15 - 12:55 Zhaohui Luo

Donkey Anaphora: Type-Theoretic Semantics with Both Strong and Weak Sums


14:00 - 14:40 Samuel Ryb & Marten van Schijndel

Analytical, Symbolic and First-Order Reasoning within Neural Architectures


14:45 - 15:30 General discussion



Tuesday, July 27


09:45 - 11:15 Robin Cooper (invited speaker)

So what's all this structure good for? Some uses of record types in TTR


11:30 - 12:10 Tatiana Bladier, Gosse Minnema, Rik van Noord & Kilian Evang

Improving DRS Parsing with Separately Predicted Semantic Roles


12:15 - 12:55 Staffan Larsson, Jean-Philippe Bernardy & Robin Cooper

Semantic Learning in a Probabilistic Type Theory with Records


14:00 - 15:30 Justyna Grudzinska (invited speaker)

Dependent Types in Action: An Investigation into a Connection between

Preposition Senses and the Logic of Scope


16:00 - 16:40 Gerald Penn & Ken Shi

Feature Structures in the Wild: A Case Study in Mixing Traditional Linguistic Knowledge

Representation with Neural Language Models


16:45 - 17:30 General discussion and concluding remarks