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