Monthly Archives: January 2015

CFP: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing

First Call for Papers:
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2015
 
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AMLaP 2015
3-5 September, 2015
University of Malta
Valletta Campus
Triq San Pawl, Valletta
Malta
 
 
Invited Speakers:
Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego)
Padraic Monoghan (Lancaster University)
Stuart Rosen (University College London)
 
Conference website and abstract submission:
www.um.edu.mt/events/amlap2015
 
Important Dates:
1st March 2015: abstract submissions and registration open
4th May 2015: deadline for abstract submissions
5th June, 2015: notification of acceptance
1st July 2015: early registration deadline
 
 
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We are delighted to announce the 21th AMLaP conference.  AMLaP was
first held in Edinburgh in 1995; in the intervening years, it has
established itself as the premier European venue for interdisciplinary
research into human language processing. After anniversary edition in Edinburgh,
AMLaP is returning to the Mediterranean, to be held at the historic Valletta Campus
of the University of Malta.
In this pictoresque venue, and the high quality of contributions we await from old friends and new,
we hope that AMLaP 2015 will be a conference to remember.
 
As ever, we invite submissions on a broad range of topics relevant to
the study of how people understand and produce language. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
 
    bilingual language processing
    computational models, symbolic and connectionist
    corpus-based studies and statistical mechanisms
    cross-linguistic studies
    dialogue processing
    discourse
    language comprehension
    language production
    lexical processing
    learning mechanisms
    models of acquisition
    neurobiology of language processing
    parsing and interpretation
    prosody
 
Malta is the most southern state in the EU, so we are expecting warm and sunny weather at the time of the conference
(even though a thunderstorm cannot be ruled out early September).
The water temperature is expected to be a pleasant 26 degrees Celsius (79 Fahrenheit for our North American Guests).
Valletta, destined to be an EU cultural capital in 2018,  is a awe-inspiring fortified city full of history (and cathedrals),
and so we hope to see as many of you as possible. A further email announcing the opening of
registration will be sent out in the coming weeks.
 
Best wishes,
Albert Gatt & Holger Mitterer
local organizers

CfP: Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality

1st CfP: Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their
Compositionality (3rd edition) (CVSC)

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (3rd
edition)
Co-located with ACL 2015, Beijing, China
July 31, 2015
Submission deadline: May 14, 2015
https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop2015
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First Call for Papers

(Apologies for multiple postings)

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in algorithms that learn
and use continuous representations for words, phrases, or documents in many
natural language processing applications. Among many others, influential
proposals that illustrate this trend include latent Dirichlet allocation,
neural network based language models and spectral methods. These approaches
are motivated by improving the generalization power of the discrete standard
models, by dealing with the data sparsity issue and by efficiently handling a
wide context. Despite the success of single word vector space models, they
are limited since they do not capture compositionality. This prevents them
from gaining a deeper understanding of the semantics of longer phrases,
sentences and documents.

Regarding this issue, some pertinent questions arise: should
word/phrase/sentence representations be of the same sort? Could different
linguistic levels require different modelling approaches ? Is
compositionality determined by syntax, and if so, how do we learn/define it?
Should word representations be fixed and obtained distributionally, or should
the encoding be variable? Should word representations be task-specific, or
should they be general?

In this workshop, we invite submissions of papers on continuous vector space
models for natural language processing. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

* Neural networks
* Spectral methods
* Distributional semantic models
* Language modeling for automatic speech recognition, statistical machine
translation, and information retrieval
* Automatic annotation of texts
* Phrase and sentence-level distributional representations
* The role of syntax in compositional models
* Formal and distributional semantic models
* Language modeling for logical and natural reasoning
* Integration of distributional representations with other models
* Multi-modal learning for distributional representations
* Knowledge base embedding

INVITED SPEAKERS

The workshop will showcase presentations from 4 to 6 keynote speakers. The
confirmed speakers are:

* Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University)
* Jason Weston (Facebook AI Research)
* Kyunghyun Cho (Université de Montréal)

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Authors should submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF
format, with up to 2 additional pages for references. The reported research
should be substantially original. The papers will be presented orally or as
posters.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the ACL 2015 formatting
requirements (see the ACL 2015 Call For Papers
http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html). Reviewing will be double-blind, and
thus no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference
should be avoided as well. Submissions must be made through the Softconf
website set up for this workshop:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2015/CVSC/

Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no distinction
will be made between papers presented orally or as posters.

IMPORTANT DATES

14 May 2015 : Submission deadline
4 June 2015 : Notification of acceptance
21 June 2015 : Camera-ready deadline
31 July 2015 : Workshop

ORGANIZERS

Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/Université Paris-Sud, France)
Edward Grefenstette (University of Oxford, UK)
Karl Moritz Hermann (University of Oxford, UK)
Hugo Larochelle (Université de de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marco Baroni, University of Trento
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montreal
Phil Blunsom, University of Oxford
Antoine Bordes, Facebook
Leon Bottou, Microsoft
Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge
Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh
Georgiana Dinu, University of Trento
Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
Andriy Mnih, University College London
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University of London
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Peter Turney, NRC
Jason Weston, Facebook
Guillaume Wisniewski, LIMSI-CNRS

Read more:
http://portal.aclweb.org/content/1st-cfp-workshop-continuous-vector-space-models-and-their-compositionality-3rd-edition