IWCS 2017 PROGRAM

Summary:

• MONDAY 18 14:00 — WEDNESDAY 20 08:00 HACKATHON
• TUESDAY 19: WORKSHOPS
•  morning
  
• ISA Interoperable Semantic Annotation (Bunt, et al.)
• LOTKS Language, Ontology, Terminology and Knowledge Structures - LOTKS 2017 (Frontini et al.)
• FMSC Foundations of Situated or Multimodal Communication (Hunter, Asher, Lascarides et al.)
• afternoon
  
• (cont'd) ISA Interoperable Semantic Annotation (Bunt, et al.)
• (cont'd) LOTKS Workshop on Language, Ontology, Terminology and Knowledge Structures - LOTKS 2017 (Frontini et al.)
• CONLI Computing Natural Language Inference (Chatzikyriakidis, Cooper, et al.)
• SEM.DEEP Semantic Deep Learning (Gromann, Declerck et al.)
• WEDNESDAY 20
• 09:00-10:00 Invited lecture Lonneke van der Plas
  
• 10:00-11:30 Poster session (and coffee break)
• 11:30-12:30 Plenary talks
  
• 12:30-14:00 lunch
  
• 14:00-15:30 Plenary talks
  
• 15:30-17:00 Poster session (and coffee break)
  
• 17:00-18:00 Plenary Talks
  
• THURSDAY 21
• 09:00-10:00 Invited lecture Elena Cabrio
  
• 10:00-11:30 Session on computational semantics and argumentation (and coffee break)
• 11:30-12:30 Plenary talks
  
• 12:30-14:00 lunch
  
• 14:00-15:30 Plenary talks
  
• 15:00-16:30 Unconference (and coffee break)
• 16:30 (sharp) departure in bus to Aigues-Mortes (visit + conference diner) 
• FRIDAY 22
• 09:00-10:00 Plenary talks
  
• 10:00-11:30 Poster session (and coffee break)
• 11:30-12:30 Plenary talks
  
• 12:30-14:00 lunch
  
• 14:00-15:00 Plenary talks
• 15:00 end
  

    WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2017

• Johan Bos. Indexicals and Compositionality: Inside-Out or Outside-In?
• Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. Modeling Quantification with Polysemous Nouns
• Marcus Kracht and Yousuf Aboamer   Argument Structure and Referent Systems
• Staffan Larsson. Compositionality for perceptual classification
• Wiebke Petersen and Oliver Hellwig. Unsupervised Induction of Compositional Types for English Adjective-Noun Pairs
• Rachel Rudinger, Kevin Duh and Benjamin Van Durme. Skip-Prop: Representing Sentences with One Vector Per Proposition

• Emmanuelle Dusserre and Muntsa Padró. Bigger does not mean better! We prefer specificity.
• Fahad Khan, Jack Bowers and Francesca Frontini  Situating Word Senses in their Historical Context with Linked Data
• Gabriella Lapesa, Sebastian Pado, Tillmann Pross and Antje Rossdeutscher. Are doggies really nicer than dogs?The impact of morphological derivation on emotional valence in German
• Nicklas Linz, Johannes Tröger, Jan Alexandersson and Alexandra König.Using Neural Word Embeddings in the Analysis of the Clinical Semantic Verbal Fluency Task
• Martin Riedl and Chris Biemann.There's no 'Count or Predict' but task-based selection for distributional models
• Shota Sasaki, Sho Takase, Naoya Inoue, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui.Handling Multiword Expressions in Causality Estimation
• Rodrigo Wilkens, Leonardo Zilio, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Felipe Paula, Carlos Ramisch, Marco Idiart and Aline Villavicencio.LexSubNC: A Dataset of Lexical Substitution for Nominal Compounds

• Gemma Boleda, Sebastian Padó, Nghia The Pham and Marco Baroni. Living a discrete life in a continuous world: Reference in cross-modal entity tracking
• Maria Di Maro, Marco Valentino, Anna Riccio and Antonio Origlia  Graph Databases for Designing High-Performance Speech Recognition Grammars 
• Mika Hasegawa, Tetsunori Kobayashi and Yoshihiko Hayashi.Incorporating visual features into word embeddings: A bimodal autoencoder-based approach
• Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Pradyumna Narayana, Isaac Wang, Kyeongmin Rim, Rahul Bangar, Dhruva Patil, Gururaj Mulay, Ross Beveridge, Jaime Ruiz, Bruce Draper, and James Pustejovsky. Communicating and Acting: Understanding Gesture in Simulation Semantics
• Ravi Shekhar, Sandro Pezzelle, Aurelie Herbelot, Moin Nabi, Enver Sangineto and Raffaella Bernardi.Vision and Language Integration: Moving beyond Objects
• David Addison Smith, Sandro Pezzelle, Francesca Franzon, Chiara Zanini and Raffaella Bernardi.Can You See the (Linguistic) Difference? Exploring Mass/Count Distinction in Vision

• Lasha Abzianidze and Johan Bos. Towards Universal Semantic Tagging
• Eckhard Bick. Propbank Annotation of Danish Noun Frames
• Moritz Wittmann, Maximilian Köper and Sabine Schulte Im Walde. Exploring Soft-Clustering for German (Particle) Verbs across Frequency Ranges
• Sheng Zhang, Rachel Rudinger and Benjamin Van Durme. A Large-scale Evaluation of PredPatt against PropBank

• Yuri Bizzoni and Shalom Lappin. Deep Learning of Binary and Gradient Judgements for Semantic Paraphrase
• Tobias Falke and Iryna Gurevych.Utilizing Automatic Predicate-Argument Analysis for Concept Map Mining
• Yuliya Lierler, Daniela Inclezan and Michael Gelfond Action Languages and Question Answering
• Paul Nulty. Network Visualisations for Exploring Political Concepts
• Andreas Rücklé and Iryna Gurevych. Representation Learning for Answer Selection with LSTM-Based Importance Weighting

    THURSDAY 21 SEPTEMBER

    FRIDAY 22 SEPTEMBER

• Mathieu Lafourcade and Nathalie Le Brun. Ambiguss, a game for building a Sense Annotated Corpus for French
• Diego Frassinelli, Daniela Naumann, Jason Utt and Sabine Schulte Im Walde.Contextual Characteristics of Concrete and Abstract Words
• Dandan Li and Douglas Summers-Stay   Dual Embeddings and Metrics for Relational Similarity
• Akira Miyazawa and Yusuke Miyao  Evaluation Metrics for Automatically Generated Metaphorical Expressions
• Mariia Melymuka, Gabriella Lapesa, Max Kisselew and Sebastian Pado.Modeling Derivational Morphology in Ukrainian
• Dieke Oele and Gertjan Van Noord. Distributional Lesk: Effective Knowledge-Based Word Sense Disambiguation
• Loïc Vial, Benjamin Lecouteux and Didier Schwab. Sense Embeddings in Knowledge-Based Word Sense Disambiguation

• Rodolfo Delmonte and Giulia Marchesini   A Semantically-Based Computational Approach to Narrative Structure
• Remus Gergel, Martin Kopf-Giammanco and Julia Masloh. Surprisal and Satisfaction: Towards an Information-theoretic Characterization of Presuppositions with a Diachronic Application
• Christine Howes and Arash Eshghi. Feedback relevance spaces: The organisation of increments in conversation
• Manfred Klenner. An Object-oriented Model of Role Framing and Attitude Prediction
• Matthew Lamm and Mihail Eric. The Pragmatics of Indirect Commands in Collaborative Discourse
• Eugenio Martínez-Cámara, Vered Shwartz, Iryna Gurevych and Ido Dagan. Neural Disambiguation of Causal Lexical Markers Based on Context
• Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Livy Real and Valeria de Paiva. Textual Inference: getting logic from humans
• Michael Roth. Role Semantics for Better Models of Implicit Discourse Relations
• Wlodek Zadrozny, Hossein Hematialam and Luciana Garbayo. Towards Semantic Modeling of Contradictions and Disagreements: A Case Study of Medical Guidelines