<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=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">[with apologies for cross-posting]</span><br class=""><div class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; text-align: center;" class="">Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; text-align: center;" class="">Cognitive Science (SemSpace2021)</span><br class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; text-align: center;" class="">This year we are excited to be (virtually) co-located with IWCS:</span><br class=""><a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiwcs2021.github.io%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C4e406cab2b98446766fa08d8c783225c%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637478713320150655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=apt0%2FQwzNZqTErh1XTeSdvfrixdoGeDcHrW%2BryNvP%2B8%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://iwcs2021.github.io/" shash="EgWDA1pJhE54gOS5K0ID1dpkjBa+L9WEXet314exB/e0GdIi0G4rEunZTukSKaG+tdvxnAaToSsfGEqHo5+DFjr9Tt5L0O/XRifnlCMscBYPUhrL/PU8gXYXatLsnyNv+lHobTWbKm/6wRsEZWghUtfCudSICwOp0VlDEsER6Ic=" class="" style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; text-align: center;">https://iwcs2021.github.io/</a><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; text-align: center;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; text-align: center;" class="">14-18 June, 2021</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; text-align: center;" class="">Website: </span><a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fsemspace2021%2Fhome&data=04%7C01%7C%7C4e406cab2b98446766fa08d8c783225c%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637478713320160619%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=k%2FXjjG6dmvOs%2BCd4Wj1fnE54F5JQlbnZubKDVF4DGu0%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2021/home" shash="QPxgYPMvvE/71bx8sY61HU/1pJ5C+kKNcKUSrzeWbqYr/yMt42eXOG/VT5g+4C2c3g1B5b3smyvZeydFTPemLPVc47FqV9x45STjxkMCIOwv+OCUxnFgwV9GoAbtlBQWZXX7VDRq67GG4Afv+j5QuSNRgdDoabfBpAxlqTWNxws=" class="" style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; text-align: center;">https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2021/home</a><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">IMPORTANT DATES: </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Paper submission: 26 March 2021</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Notification to contributors: 16 Apr 2021 </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Camera Ready: 7 May 2021</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">AIMS AND SCOPE</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" 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. 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.</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Reasoning in semantic spaces </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Compositionality in semantic spaces and conceptual spaces </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Conceptual spaces in linguistics and natural language processing </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Applications of quantum logic in natural language processing and cognitive science</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Modelling functional words such as prepositions and relative pronouns in compositional distributional models of meaning </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Diagrammatic reasoning for natural language processing and cognitive science </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Modelling so-called ‘non-compositional’ phenomena such as metaphor</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">SUBMISSIONS:</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">We welcome two types of submission:</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">- 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.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">- 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.</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Both accepted papers and extended abstracts are expected to be presented at the workshop.</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">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
available soon). 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.</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><br class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">INVITED SPEAKERS</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Ellie Pavlick, Brown University</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Haim Dubossarsky, University of Cambridge</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">PROGRAMME COMMITTEE </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Tai-Danae Bradley, X, the Moonshot Factory</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Bob Coecke, Cambridge Quantum Computing</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Gemma De Las Cuevas, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Stefano Gogioso, University of Oxford </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Peter Hines, University of York </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Antonio Lieto, University of Turin </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Dan Marsden, University of Oxford </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Richard Moot, CNRS(LIRMM) & University of Montpellier </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Emmanuel Pothos, City University of London </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Corina Stroessner, Ruhr University Bochum </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Dominic Widdows, Serendipity Now! </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Gijs Wijnholds, Utrecht University</span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><br class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Martha Lewis, University of Bristol </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular;" class="">Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, UCL </span><br class="">
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