[CogSci] CfP: Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science (SemSpace2021)

Sun Mar 14 12:05:20 PDT 2021

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Second Call for Papers

Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science (SemSpace2021)

This year we are excited to be (virtually) co-located with IWCS:

https://iwcs2021.github.io/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Feur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fiwcs2021.github.io%252F%26data%3D04%257C01%257C%257C4e406cab2b98446766fa08d8c783225c%257C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%257C0%257C0%257C637478713320150655%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C1000%26sdata%3Dapt0%252FQwzNZqTErh1XTeSdvfrixdoGeDcHrW%252BryNvP%252B8%253D%26reserved%3D0&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE4NHC1pU6PLUqG-SO_vQaPpCaqFQ>

14-18 June, 2021

Website:
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IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: 26 March 2021

Notification to contributors: 16 Apr 2021

Camera Ready: 7 May 2021

AIMS AND SCOPE

Vector embeddings of word meanings have become a mainstream tool in large scale natural language processing tools. The use of vectors
 to represent meanings in semantic spaces or feature spaces is also employed in cognitive science. Unrelated to natural language and cognitive science, vectors and vector spaces have been extensively used as models of physical theories and especially the theory
 of quantum mechanics. Crucial similarities between the vector representations of quantum mechanics and those of natural language are exhibited via bicompact linear logic and compact closed categorical structures in natural language. Exploiting the common ground
 provided by vector spaces, the proposed workshop will bring together researchers working at the intersection of NLP, cognitive science, and physics, offering to them an appropriate forum for presenting their uniquely motivated work and ideas. The interplay
 between these three disciplines will foster theoretically motivated approaches to understanding how meanings of words interact with each other in sentences and discourse via grammatical types, how they are determined by input from the world, and how word and
 sentence meanings interact logically.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

Reasoning in semantic spaces

Compositionality in semantic spaces and conceptual spaces

Conceptual spaces in linguistics and natural language processing

Applications of quantum logic in natural language processing and cognitive science

Modelling functional words such as prepositions and relative pronouns in compositional distributional models of meaning

Diagrammatic reasoning for natural language processing and cognitive science

Modelling so-called ‘non-compositional’ phenomena such as metaphor

SUBMISSIONS:

We welcome two types of submission:

- Archival papers of up to 8 pages should report on complete, original and unpublished research. Accepted papers will be published
 in the workshop proceedings and appear in the ACL anthology.

- Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages) may report on work in progress or work that was recently published/accepted at a different
 venue. Extended abstracts will not be included in the workshop proceedings.

Both accepted papers and extended abstracts are expected to be presented at the workshop.

Authors must submit non-anonymized extended abstracts or papers by March 26. Both extended abstracts and papers must be formatted
 according to the IWCS guidelines, and must be submitted via softconf (link:  https://www.softconf.com/iwcs2021/SemSpace2021/user/ <https://www.softconf.com/iwcs2021/SemSpace2021/user/>). The extended abstracts should not contain an abstract section and may consist of up to 3 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Archival papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited
 references. Camera-ready versions of papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Ellie Pavlick, Brown University

Haim Dubossarsky, University of Cambridge

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Tai-Danae Bradley, X, the Moonshot Factory

Bob Coecke, Cambridge Quantum Computing

Gemma De Las Cuevas, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck

Stefano Gogioso, University of Oxford

Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University

Peter Hines, University of York

Antonio Lieto, University of Turin

Dan Marsden, University of Oxford

Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University

Richard Moot, CNRS(LIRMM) & University of Montpellier

Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii

Emmanuel Pothos, City University of London

Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London

Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology

Corina Stroessner, Ruhr University Bochum

Dominic Widdows, Serendipity Now!

Gijs Wijnholds, Utrecht University

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Martha Lewis, University of Bristol

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, UCL

Lachlan McPheat, UCL
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