<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 style="text-align: center;" class="">CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Sciences</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Part of ESSLLI 2019 (<a href="http://esslli2019.folli.info/" class="">http://esslli2019.folli.info/</a>)</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">August 5th - 9th 2019</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Riga, Latvia</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2019/home" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2019/home</a></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">****</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AIMS AND SCOPE</div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Topics of interests include (but are not restricted to):</div><div class="">Reasoning in semantic spaces</div><div class="">Compositionality in semantic spaces and conceptual spaces</div><div class="">Conceptual spaces in linguistics and natural language processing</div><div class="">Applications of quantum logic in natural language processing and cognitive science</div><div class="">Modelling functional words such as prepositions and relative pronouns in compositional distributional models of meaning</div><div class="">Diagrammatic reasoning for natural language processing and cognitive science</div><div class="">Modelling so-called ‘non-compositional’ phenomena such as metaphor</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMPORTANT DATES:</div><div class="">25th April 2019: Paper submission</div><div class="">1st June 2019: Notification to contributors</div><div class="">5th-9th August: Workshop dates</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:</div><div class="">Professor Ruth Kempson FBA, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, King's College, London, UK</div><div class="">Dr Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Reader in Theoretical Physics, Queen Mary University of London, UK</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=semspace2019" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semspace2019</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:</div><div class="">Bob Coecke, University of Oxford</div><div class="">Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University</div><div class="">Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology</div><div class="">Jules Hedges, University of Oxford</div><div class="">Dimitrios Kartsaklis, Apple</div><div class="">Alexander Kurz, University of Leicester</div><div class="">Antonio Lieto, University of Turin, Department of Computer Science</div><div class="">Richard Moot, CNRS (LIRMM) & University of Montpellier</div><div class="">Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii</div><div class="">Emmanuel Pothos, City University London</div><div class="">Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London</div><div class="">Giovanni Sileno, University of Amsterdam</div><div class="">Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton</div><div class="">Oriol Valentín, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya</div><div class="">Dominic Widdows, Serendipity Now!</div><span class="">Geraint Wiggins, Vrije Universiteit Brussel<br class=""></span><div class="">Frank Zenker, Lund University</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:</div><div class="">Martha Lewis, ILLC, University of Amsterdam</div><div class="">Dan Marsden, University of Oxford</div><div class="">Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London</div></body></html>