July 16, 2010
Venue A, Room II
Uppsala University, Sweden
PROGRAM
| 9:25 - 9:30 | Welcome and Opening |
| Session : Geometry and Semantics | |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | David Jurgens and Keith Stevens Capturing Nonlinear Structure in Word Spaces Through Dimensionality Reduction |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Danilo Croce and Daniele Previtali Manifold Learning for the semi-supervised induction of FrameNet predicates: an empirical investigation |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:10 | Invited Talk: Katrin Erk "What is word meaning, really? (And how can distributional models help us describe it?)" |
| Session: Lexical Acquisition (1) | |
| 12:10 - 12:40 | Georgiana Dinu and Grzegorz Chrupala Relatedness curves for acquiring paraphrases |
| 12:40 - 13:10 | Emiliano Guevara A Regression Model of Adjective-Noun Compositionality in Distributional Semantics |
| 13:10 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Session: Lexical Acquisition (2) | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Daoud Clarke, Rudi Lutz and David Weir Semantic Composition with Quotient Algebras |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Justin Washtell Expectation Vectors: A Semiotics Inspired Approach to Geometric Lexical-Semantic Representation |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| Session: Computational Aspects | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Amit Goyal, Jagadeesh Jagaralamudi, Hal Daumé III and Suresh Venkatasubramanian Sketch Techniques for scaling Distributional Similarity to the Web |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Andreas Vlachos, Zoubin Ghahramani and Ted Briscoe Active learning for constrained Dirichlet process mixture models |
| 17:00 - 17:55 | Panel |
| 17:55 - 18:00 | Closing |