2nd Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
CVSC
Location: 
Campus Johanneberg of Chalmers University of Technology
Sunday, 27 April 2014
Country: 
Sweden
City: 
Gothenburg
Contact: 
Alexandre Allauzen
Raffaella Bernardi
Edward Grefenstette
Hugo Larochelle
Christopher Manning
Scott Wen-tau Yih

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

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Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
(2nd edition)

Co-located with EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden
April 27, 2014
https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop2014
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INVITED TALK:
Geoffrey Zweig: Encoding Antonymy in Continuous Space Models
Ivan Titov: Inducing Cross-Lingual Semantic Representations of Words,
Phrases, Sentences and Events
Phil Blunsom: Generating from distributed representations: translating
in a continuous space

PANEL DISCUSSION: Christopher Manning and the invited speakers

PROGRAM:

9:30 - 9:40 Opening Remarks
9:40 - 10:30 Inducing Cross-Lingual Semantic Representations of Words,
Phrases, Sentences and Events
Ivan Titov (Invited Talk)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:20 Post-hoc Manipulations of Vector Space Models with
Application to Semantic Role Labeling
Jenna Kanerva and Filip Ginter
11:20 - 11:40 Distributional Composition using Higher-Order Dependency
Vectors
Julie Weeds, David Weir and Jeremy Reffin
11:40 - 12:00 A Systematic Study of Semantic Vector Space Model Parameters
Douwe Kiela and Stephen Clark

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:50 Encoding Antonymy in Continuous Space Models
Geoffrey Zweig (Invited Talk)
14:50 - 15:10 Extractive Summarization using Continuous Vector Space Models
Mikael Kågebäck, Olof Mogren, Nina Tahmasebi and Devdatt Dubhashi
15:10 - 15:30 Investigating the Contribution of Distributional Semantic
Information for Dialogue Act Classification
Dmitrijs Milajevs and Matthew Purver

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:50 Generating from distributed representations: translating
in a continuous space
Phil Blunsom (Invited Talk)

16:50 - 17:50 Panel Discussion with Chris Manning, Phil Blunsom, Ivan
Titov and Geoffrey Zweig