<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">[with apologies for cross-posting]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">SECOND 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=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/home" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/home</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">August 8th and 9th 2020</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Utrecht, The Netherlands</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">(dates and location subject to confirmation)</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">****</div><div class="">COVID-19 UPDATE</div><div class="">We will be going ahead with the workshop, either in an online format or in person if the situation allows.</div><div class="">Since ESSLLI 2020 has been cancelled, the dates and location may be subject to slight change.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMPORTANT DATES:</div><div class="">Paper submission: 24th April 2020</div><div class="">Notification to contributors: 1st June 2020</div><div class="">Workshop dates: 8th-9th August 2020 (subject to confirmation)</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 interest 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="">SPECIAL SESSION</div><div class="">A special session will address the relevance of formal grammar methods in deep learning and other statistical and vector space approaches to language. Examples of phenomena where these methods come into play include (but of course are not limited to) anaphora resolution, long-range filler-gap dependencies, function-argument relations, locality domains, and syntactic structures in general.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This session was originally planned to be held jointly with the Formal Grammar conference (<a href="http://fg.phil.hhu.de/2020/" class="">http://fg.phil.hhu.de/2020/</a>) which has been cancelled. We welcome papers that were submitted for the joint FG/SemSpace session as SemSpace submissions under the present CfP.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SUBMISSIONS: </div><div class="">Electronic submission of original contributions (up to 16 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=semspace2020" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semspace2020</a> </div><div class="">In submitting your abstract, please indicate whether you intend your submission for the special session.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A special issue of selected extended papers will be prepared following the workshop. Only original contributions will be considered for publication.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please send any queries to <a href="mailto:semspace2020@easychair.org" class="">semspace2020@easychair.org</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SPEAKERS</div><div class="">TBC</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</div><div class="">Bob Coecke, University of Oxford</div><div class="">Stefano Gogioso, University of Oxford</div><div class="">Giuseppe Greco, Utrecht University</div><div class="">Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University</div><div class="">Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology</div><div class="">Jules Hedges, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences</div><div class="">Peter Hines, University of York</div><div class="">Alexander Kurz, Chapman University</div><div class="">Antonio Lieto, University of Turin, Department of Computer Science</div><div class="">Dan Marsden, University of Oxford</div><div class="">Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University</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="">Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London</div><div class="">Giovanni Sileno, University of Amsterdam</div><div class="">Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology</div><div class="">Oriol Valentín, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya</div><div class="">Dominic Widdows, Grab </div><div class="">Geraint Wiggins, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Queen Mary University of London</div><div class="">Gijs Wijnholds, Utrecht University</div><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="">Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University</div></div></div></div></body></html>