<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="text-align: center;">CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div class=""><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">Workshop on Compositional Approaches in Physics, NLP, and Social Sciences</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">September 2 2018</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">Nice, France</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/capns2018/home" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/capns2018/home</a></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">*************</div><div class="" style="text-align: left;">[Apologies for cross-posting]</div><div class="" style="text-align: left;"><br class=""></div><div class="">Compositional Approaches for NLP, Physics, and Social Sciences (CAPNS 2018) will be colocated with QI 2018 (<a href="http://qi2018.quantum-interaction.org/" class="">http://qi2018.quantum-interaction.org/</a>). The workshop is a continuation and extension of the Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics and Cognitive Science <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/semspworkshop/" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/semspworkshop/</a> held in June 2016. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AIMS AND SCOPE</div><div class="">The ability to compose parts to form a more complex whole, and to analyze a whole as a combination of elements, is desirable across disciplines. In this workshop we bring together researchers applying compositional approaches to NLP, Physics, Cognitive Science, and Game Theory. The interplay between these disciplines will foster theoretically motivated approaches to understanding how meanings of words interact in sentences and discourse, how concepts develop, and how complex games can be analyzed. Commonalities between the compositional mechanisms employed may be extracted, and applications and phenomena traditionally thought of as 'non-compositional' will be examined.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Topics of interests include (but are not restricted to):</div><div class="">Applications of quantum logic in natural language processing and cognitive science</div><div class="">Compositionality in vector space models of meaning</div><div class="">Compositionality in conceptual spaces</div><div class="">Compositional approaches to game theory</div><div class="">Reasoning in vector spaces and conceptual spaces</div><div class="">Conceptual spaces in linguistics</div><div class="">Game-theoretic models of language and conceptual change</div><div class="">Diagrammatic reasoning for natural language processing, cognitive science, and game theory</div><div class="">Compositional explanations of so-called 'non-compositional' phenomena such as metaphor</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMPORTANT DATES:</div><div class="">June 30th: Paper submission</div><div class="">July 15th: Notification to contributors</div><div class="">September 2nd: Workshop date</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:</div><div class="">Gerhard Jäger, Professor of General Linguistics, University of Tübingen</div><div class="">Paul Smolensky, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SUBMISSIONS:</div><div class="">We invite:</div><div class="">Original contributions (up to 12 pages) of previously unpublished work. Submission of substantial, albeit partial results of work in progress is welcomed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Extended abstracts (3 pages) of previously published work that is recent and relevant to the workshop. These should include a link to a separately published paper or preprint.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Contributions should be submitted at:</div><div class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=capns2018" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=capns2018</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:</div><div class="">Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology</div><div class="">Trevor Cohen, University of Texas</div><div class="">Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg, University of Strathclyde</div><div class="">Liane Gabora, University of British Columbia</div><div class="">Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University</div><div class="">Helle Hvid Hansen, TU Delft</div><div class="">Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh</div><div class="">Peter Hines, University of York</div><div class="">Alexander Kurz, University of Leicester</div><div class="">Antonio Lieto, University of Turin</div><div class="">Glyn Morrill, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya</div><div class="">Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii</div><div class="">Taher Pilehvar, University of Cambridge</div><div class="">Emmanuel Pothos, City, University of London</div><div class="">Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London</div><div class="">Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London</div><div class="">Marta Sznajder, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy</div><div class="">Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton </div><div class="">Dominic Widdows, Grab Technologies</div><div class="">Geraint Wiggins, Vrije Universiteit Brussel</div><div class="">Victor Winschel, OICOS GmbH</div><div class="">Philipp Zahn, University of St. Gallen</div><div class="">Frank Zenker, University of Konstanz</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ORGANIZATION:</div><div class="">Bob Coecke, University of Oxford</div><div class="">Jules Hedges, University of Oxford</div><div class="">Dimitri Kartsaklis, University of Cambridge</div><div class="">Martha Lewis, ILLC, University of Amsterdam</div><div class="">Dan Marsden, University of Oxford</div></div></body></html>