Programme


Proceedings of IWCS2019 as well as most of the workshops are out. You can access them here

Thursday 23.05.2019

Workshops


Friday 24.05.2019

Workshops

Shared task

17:15 - 19:00 Opening Reception

Short welcome speech by the Lord Mayor of Gothenburg Anneli Rhedin

Wine reception and snacks

Saturday 25.05.2019

08:45 - 09:00 Welcome to the conference

09:00 - 10:00 Invited talk: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh: Ellipsis in Compositional Distributional Semantics (chair: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis)

10:00 - 10:30: Coffee

Session 1: 10:30 - 12:00 (chair: Robin Cooper)

    • Tim Fernando. Projecting temporal properties, events and actions.
    • Kenneth Lai and James Pustejovsky. A Dynamic Semantics for Causal Counterfactuals.
    • Gene Louis Kim and Lenhart Schubert. A Type-coherent, Expressive Representation as an Initial Step to Language Understanding.

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 13:10 Poster flash presentations (chair: Matthew Purver)

13:10 - 15:30 Poster session 1: 10 papers

    • Stephen McGregor and Elisabetta Jezek. A Distributional Model of Affordances in Semantic Type Coercion.
    • Hai Hu, Qi Chen and Larry Moss. Natural Language Inference with Monotonicity.
    • Elizaveta Kuzmenko and Aurelie Herbelot. Distributional semantics in the real world: building word vector representations from a truth-theoretic model.
    • Rik van Noord, Antonio Toral and Johan Bos. Linguistic Information in Neural Semantic Parsing with Multiple Encoders.
    • Martin Diller, Adam Wyner and Hannes Strass. Making sense of conflicting (defeasible) rules in the controlled natural language ACE: design of a system with support for existential quantification using skolemization.
    • Harry Bunt. A semantic annotation scheme for quantification.
    • Areej Alokaili, Nikolaos Aletras and Mark Stevenson. Re-Ranking Words to Improve Interpretability of Automatically Generated Topics.
    • Ronja Utescher. Visual TTR - Modelling Visual Question Answering in Type Theory with Records.
    • Austin Kershaw and Miroslaw Bober. The Lexical Gap: An Improved Measure of Automated Image Description Quality.
    • Pavlo Kapustin and Michael Kapustin. Modeling language constructs with fuzzy sets: some approaches, examples and interpretations.

15:30: -16:00 coffee

16:00 - 18:00 Session 2 (chair: Asad Sayeed)

    • Austin Blodgett and Nathan Schneider. An Improved Approach for Semantic Graph Composition with CCG
    • Eckhard Bick. A Semantic Ontology of Danish Adjectives.
    • Jens Fleischhauer, Thomas Gamerschlag, Laura Kallmeyer and Simon Petitjean. Towards a compositional analysis of German light verb constructions (LVCs) combining Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) with frame semantics.
    • Paula Czarnowska, Guy Emerson and Ann Copestake. Words are Vectors, Dependencies are Matrices: Learning Word Embeddings from Dependency Graphs.


Sunday 26.05.2019

9:00-10:00 Invited talk: Ellie Pavlick “What should constitute natural language ‘understanding’?” (chair: Simon Dobnik)

10:00-10:30: Coffee

10:30 - 12:00 Session 3 (chair: Raffaella Bernardi)

    • Thomas Kober, Sander Bijl de Vroe and Mark Steedman. Temporal and Aspectual Entailment.
    • Ketki Savle, Wlodek Zadrozny and Minwoo Lee. Topological Data Analysis for Discourse Semantics?
    • Matthijs Westera and Gemma Boleda. Don't blame distributional semantics it can't do entailment.

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 13:10 Poster flash presentations (chair: Raquel Fernandez)

13:10 - 15:30 Poster session 2: 10 posters

    • Diego Frassinelli and Sabine Schulte Im Walde. Distributional Interaction of Concreteness and Abstractness in Verb–Noun Subcategorisation.
    • Nikhil Krishnaswamy and James Pustejovsky. Generating a Novel Dataset of Multimodal Referring Expressions.
    • Amila Silva and Chathurika Amarathunga. Linguistically Enhanced Word Embeddings From Limited Data.
    • Christian Wartena, Uwe Sander and Christiane Patzelt. Sentiment Independent Topic Detection in Rated Hospital Reviews.
    • Bénédicte Pierrejean and Ludovic Tanguy. Investigating the stability of concrete nouns in word embeddings.
    • Bonnie Webber, Rashmi Prasad and Alan Lee. Ambiguity in Explicit Discourse Relations.
    • Rifki Afina Putri, Giwon Hong and Sung-Hyon Myaeng. Aligning Open IE Relations and KB Relations using a Siamese Network Based on Word Embedding.
    • Md Shad Akhtar, Abhishek Kumar, Asif Ekbal, Chris Biemann and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. Language-Agnostic Model for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.
    • Yuri Bizzoni and Shalom Lappin. The Effect of Context on Metaphor Paraphrase Aptness Judgments.
    • Jean Charbonnier and Christian Wartena. Predicting Word Concreteness and Imagery.

15:00: -15:30 Coffee and continuation of the poster session

15:30 - 17:30 Session 4 (chair: Sharid Loáiciga)

    • Wei Shi and Vera Demberg. Learning to Explicitate Connectives with Seq2Seq Network for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification.
    • Waad Alhoshan, Riza Batista-Navarro and Liping Zhao. Semantic Frame Embeddings for Detecting Relations between Software Requirements.
    • Maryam Aminian, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli and Mona Diab. Cross-Lingual Transfer of Semantic Roles: From Raw Text to Semantic Roles.
    • Ravi Shekhar, Ece Takmaz, Raquel Fernández and Raffaella Bernardi. Evaluating the Representational Hub of Language and Vision Models.

17:30 - 18:00 Tram to Liseberg

18:00 - 21:00 Social Activity (Liseberg Amusement Park and Dinner at Hamnkrogen inside the park)


Monday 27.05.2019

9:00-10:00 Invited talk: Raffaella Bernardi "Beyond task success: A closer look at jointly learning to see, ask, and GuessWhat" (chair: David Schlangen)

10:00-10:30: Coffee

10:30 - 12:00 Session 5 (chair: Johan Bos)

    • Amaru Cuba Gyllensten, Ariel Ekgren and Magnus Sahlgren. R-grams: Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Units in Natural Language. (best student paper)
    • Rezka Leonandya, Dieuwke Hupkes, Elia Bruni and Germán Kruszewski. The Fast and the Flexible: training neural networks to learn to follow instructions from small data.
    • Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang and Gwenn Englebienne. Fast and discriminative semantic embedding.

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 6 (chair: Shalom Lappin)

    • Michael Aloys Hedderich, Andrew Yates, Dietrich Klakow and Gerard de Melo. Using Multi-Sense Vector Embeddings for Reverse Dictionaries.
    • Vincent Segonne, Benoit Crabbé and Marie Candito. Using Wiktionary as a resource for WSD : the case of French verbs.
    • Aina Garí Soler, Anne Cocos, Marianna Apidianaki and Chris Callison-Burch. A comparison of context-sensitive models for lexical substitution.

15:00: -16:00 coffee

16:00 - 17:00 Session 7 (chair: Staffan Larsson)

    • David Schlangen. Natural Language Semantics With Pictures: Some Language & Vision Datasets and Potential Uses for Computational Semantics.
    • Jennifer Sikos and Sebastian Padó. Frame Identification as Categorization: Exemplar vs Prototype-based Approaches.

17:00 - 17:30 Concluding remarks