Program

Program (all times are GMT+2)

October 14th

8:30 - 9:00 Opening remarks

9:00 - 10:00 Plenary talk (chair: Chris Howes)

  • Heather Burnett "Social Signaling and Reasoning under Uncertainty: French "Ecriture Inclusive"

10:00- 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00 Session 1- Chair: Asad Sayeed

  • Eimear Maguire "'Practical', if that's the word"

  • Bill Noble, Ellen Breitholz and Robin Cooper "Personae under uncertainty: The case of topoi"

  • Quentin Dénigot and Heather Burnett "Dogwhistles as Identity-based interpretative variation"

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 - 14:00 Session 2 - Chair: Bill Noble

  • Jos Tellings "Conditional answers and the role of probabilistic epistemic representations"

  • Brandon Waldon "Linguistic interpretation as inference under argument system uncertainty: the case of epistemic must"

14:00 - 14:30 Coffee break

14:30- 15:30 Session 3 - Chair: Vidya Somashekarappa

  • Guy Emerson "Linguists Who Use Probabilistic Models Love Them: Quantification in Functional Distributional Semantics"

  • José Miguel Cano Santín, Simon Dobnik and Mehdi Ghanimifard "Fast visual grounding in interaction: bringing few-shot learning with neural networks to an interactive robot"

15:30- 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 Plenary talk (chair: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis)

  • Katrin Erk "How to marry a star: Probabilistic constraints for meaning in context"


October 15th

9:00 - 10:00 Plenary talk: Stephen Clark (chair: Staffan Larsson)

  • "Grounded Language Learning in Virtual Environments"

10:00- 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:15 Poster Session (chairs: Christine Howes/Stergios Chatzikyriakidis

  • Staffan Larsson "Discrete and Probabilistic Classifier-based Semantics"

  • Elin McCready and Robert Henderson "Social Meaning in Repeated Interactions"

  • Robert Henderson and Elin McCready "Towards functional, agent-based models of dogwhistle communication"

  • Corina Stroessner, Annika Schuster, Peter Sutton and Henk Zeevat" Stochastic Frames"

  • Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Gijs Wijnholds "A toy distributional model for fuzzy generalised quantifiers"

  • Saba Anwar, Artem Shelmanov, Chris Biemann and Alexander Panchenko "Generating Lexical Representations of Frames using Lexical Substitution"

  • Elizabeth Coppock, Danielle Dionne, Nathanial Graham, Elias Ganem, Shijie Zhao, Shawn Lin, Wenxing Liu and Derry Wijaya "Informativity in Image Captions vs. Referring Expressions"

12:15 - 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 - 14:00 Session 1 - Chair: Vlad Maraev

  • Adam Ek, Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis "How does Punctuation Affect Neural Models in Natural Language Inference"

  • Hannes von Essen and Daniel Hesslow "Building a Swedish Question-Answering Model"

14:00 -14:30 Coffee break

14:30- 15:30 Session 2 - Chair: Adam Ek

  • Janosch Haber and Massimo Poesio "Word Sense Distance in Human Similarity Judgements and Contextualised Word Embeddings"

  • Anna Marakasova and Julia Neidhardt "Short-term Semantic Shifts and their Relation to Frequency Change"

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 Plenary talk (chair: Jean-Philippe Bernardy)

  • Noah Goodman, "Reference, Inference, and Learning"



Accepted Papers

Talks:

Hannes von Essen and Daniel Hesslow "Building a Swedish Question-Answering Model"

Guy Emerson "Linguists Who Use Probabilistic Models Love Them: Quantification in Functional Distributional Semantics"

Adam Ek, Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis "How does Punctuation Affect Neural Models in Natural Language Inference"

Eimear Maguire "'Practical', if that's the word"

Janosch Haber and Massimo Poesio "Word Sense Distance in Human Similarity Judgements and Contextualised Word Embeddings"

Bill Noble, Ellen Breitholz and Robin Cooper "Personae under uncertainty: The case of topoi"

José Miguel Cano Santín, Simon Dobnik and Mehdi Ghanimifard "Fast visual grounding in interaction: bringing few-shot learning with neural networks to an interactive robot"

Quentin Dénigot and Heather Burnett "Dogwhistles as Identity-based interpretative variation"

Anna Marakasova and Julia Neidhardt "Short-term Semantic Shifts and their Relation to Frequency Change"

Jos Tellings "Conditional answers and the role of probabilistic epistemic representations"

Brandon Waldon "Linguistic interpretation as inference under argument system uncertainty: the case of epistemic must"


Posters:

Staffan Larsson "Discrete and Probabilistic Classifier-based Semantics"

Elin McCready and Robert Henderson "Social Meaning in Repeated Interactions"

Corina Stroessner, Annika Schuster, Peter Sutton and Henk Zeevat" Stochastic Frames"

Robert Henderson and Elin McCready "Towards functional, agent-based models of dogwhistle communication"

Elizabeth Coppock, Danielle Dionne, Nathanial Graham, Elias Ganem, Shijie Zhao, Shawn Lin, Wenxing Liu and Derry Wijaya "Informativity in Image Captions vs. Referring Expressions"

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Gijs Wijnholds "A toy distributional model for fuzzy generalised quantifiers"

Saba Anwar, Artem Shelmanov, Chris Biemann and Alexander Panchenko "Towards Expanding FrameNet using Lexical Substitution"