Programme

Monday 5th August:

  • 17:00-17:10 - Welcome and Introduction
  • 17:10-18:10 - Keynote: Sanjaye Ramgoolam: Permutation invariant Gaussian Matrix/Tensor models for Compositional Distributional Semantics (slides)
  • 18:15-18:30 - Density Matrices for Derivational Ambiguity: Adriana Correia, Michael Moortgat and Henk Stoof


Tuesday 6th August:

  • 17:00 - 17:15 - Data-driven Conceptual Spaces: Creating Semantic Representations of Numerical Data: Hadi Banaee, Erik Schaffernicht and Amy Loutfi
  • 17:15 - 17:30 - A Vector Simplex Model of Concepts: Douglas Summers-Stay, Peter Sutor, Dandan Li and Adrienne Raglin (slides)
  • 17:30 - 17:45 - Conceptual Spaces in Frames: Corina Strößner (slides)
  • 17:45 - 18:00 - Concept Functionals: Vincent Wang
  • 18:00 - 18:15 - Ease of Learning Explains Semantic Universals: Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik (slides)
  • 18:15 - 18:30 Discussion


Wednesday 7th August:

  • 17:00 - 18:00 - Keynote: Ruth Kempson: Crossing disciplinary boundaries: Language as Interaction Control Mechanisms (slides)
  • 18:00 - 18:15 - Evaluating Composition Models for VP-Elliptical Sentence Embeddings: Gijs Wijnholds and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (slides)
  • 18:15 - 18:30 Discussion


Thursday 8th August:

  • 17:00 - 18:00 - Keynote: Jamie Kiros: Language Grounding, Structure and their relevance to Semantic Spaces (slides)
  • 18:00 - 18:15 - Deductive parsing with an Unbounded Type Lexicon: Konstantinos Kogkalidis, Michael Moortgat, Richard Moot and Giorgos Tziafas (slides)
  • 18:15 - 18:30 Discussion



Friday 9th August: