Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Location: 
Held in conjunction with EMNLP 2015
Friday, 18 September 2015
Country: 
Portugal
City: 
Lisbon

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

-- Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics --

Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGSEM and SIGdial, the ACL Special Interest Groups on the Lexicon, Computational Semantics, and Discourse and Dialogue

Held in conjunction with EMNLP 2015
Lisbon, Portugal
September 18, 2015

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mroth/LSDSem/

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

We accepted 11 diverse and exciting papers for this first-time workshop. The list
of accepted papers and our preliminary program can be found online here:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mroth/LSDSem/#program

INVITED TALKS

Aside from the papers reviewed by our excellent program committee, we also have a
great line-up of invited speakers:

"From Distributed Semantics to Discourse, and Back"
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology

"What Men Say, What Women Hear: Using Semantics To Make Better Sense of Gender Differences in Social Media"
Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan

"The (Non)Utility of Semantics for Coreference Resolution"
Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

REGISTRATION

Registration to the workshop is available via the EMNLP website here:

http://www.emnlp2015.org/registration.html

Please note that the early bird registration deadline is this Sunday, August 23rd