<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=""><div class="">[with apologies for cross-posting]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">CALL FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Sciences</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/home" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/home</a> </div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">August 6th and 7th 2020</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">online</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">****</div><div class="">Registration is now open for SemSpace2020 at <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/registration" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/registration</a>. Registration is free, but please do register for planning purposes.</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=""><div class="">INVITED SPEAKERS</div><div class="">Jennifer Culbertson, University of Edinburgh</div><div class="">Andrea E. Martin, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, Nijmegen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">LIST OF ACCEPTED TALKS (in no particular order)</div></div><div class="">(see also <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/programme" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/programme</a>)</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Russell Richie and Sudeep Bhatia: Similarity judgment within and across categories: A comprehensive model comparison</div><div class="">James Hefford, Vincent Wang and Matthew Wilson: Categories of Semantic Concepts</div><div class="">Sean Tull and Johannes Kleiner: Integrated Information in Process Theories</div><div class="">Sonia Cenceschi, Licia Sbattella and Roberto Tedesco: CALLIOPE: a multi-dimensional model for the prosodic characterisation of Information Units</div><div class="">Tiffany Duneau: Solving logical puzzles in DisCoCirc</div><div class="">Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Stefano Gogioso, Giovanni De Felice, Alexis Toumi, Nicolo Chiappori and Bob Coecke: Quantum Natural Language Processing on Near-Term Quantum Computers</div><div class="">Sergey Slavnov: Cobordisms and commutative categorial grammars</div><div class="">Sean Tull: Monoidal Categories for Formal Concept Analysis</div><div class="">Lachlan McPheat, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Adriana Correia and Alexis Toumi: Derivations and Vector Semantics of Anaphora with Ellipsis in Lambek Calculus with a Relevant Modality</div><div class="">Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Lewis Sword: Gaussianity and typicality in matrix distributional semantics</div><div class="">Gemma De Las Cuevas, Andreas Klinger, Martha Lewis and Tim Netzer: Cats climb entails mammals move: preserving hyponymy in compositional distributional semantics</div><div class="">Whitney Tabor: On the relationship between syntactic and semantic encoding in vector space language models</div></div></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="">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></body></html>