Organizing Committee
Please feel free to get in touch with the organizers at gecko.sympo@gmail.com .
PhD student in the department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. In her current research, she studies word-level ambiguity and its resolution in context through the use of neural networks, both in terms of analyzing such models, as well as employing them to answer linguistic questions. Her research was published at ACL, EMNLP and NAACL.
ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her main areas of expertise are computational semantics and language and vision, and she works at the intersection between theoretical and computational linguistics. Her current research is centered on how humans and machines combine generic and situation-specific aspects of meaning, mostly from the point of view of reference. She co-organized the COLING 2008 workshop Human judgements in Computational Linguistics, the IWCS 2013 workshop Towards a formal distributional semantics, the ESSLLI 2016 workshop DSALT: Distributional Semantics and Linguistic Theory, and the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium. She has also been Area Co-chair of ACL 2016 and *SEM 2013, Program Co-chair of *SEM 2015, and Local Co-chair of ESSLLI 2015.
Postdoctoral researcher in the department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He conducts research using cognitively-informed and data-driven models of language use and its evolution. His focus lies on ambiguity and its contextual interpretation. He has published in journals and conferences across disciplines, spanning from theoretical (S&P) and computational linguistics (EMNLP) to cognitive science (CogSci) and decision theory (BJPS).
Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include multimodal and multlingual machine learning, which has appeared in papers ACL, CoNLL, EMNLP. and NAACL. He co-organised the How 2 Challenge Workshop at ICML 2019, the Multimodal Machine Translation Shared Task from 2016--2018, and the 2018 Frederick Jelinek Memorial Workshop on Grounded Sequence-to-Sequence Learning.
Postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her research interests lie in the area of computational semantics with a focus on language & vision. Her goal is to understand and model human language use about and in real-world situations and the involved objects. She has published at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL and in TPAMI.
PhD student in the department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. His research focuses on understanding how neural networks encode entity information, especially when their representation is based on multiple modalities (focus on Language and Vision). His research has been published at NAACL, EACL and in the NLE Journal.
Postdoctoral researcher in the department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. His recent research focuses on how speakers rely on conventions for communicating their intentions, and how distributional/neural models of meaning relate to formal/logical approaches. He has published at NAACL and IWCS as well as theoretical linguistics venues and journals (Theoretical Linguistics, Glossa).
Tenure-track junior professor for digital humanities, machine learning and language technology at the University of Jena, Germany. She works in the areas of language generation, language & vision and dialogue, and has published at ACL, EMNLP, Interspeech, INLG. Her current interests include models of reference that combine aspects of semantics, pragmatics and vision.