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2010 Workshop on GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (GEMS-2010)

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

July 16, 2010

9:25–9:30Welcome and Opening
 Session: Geometry and Semantics
9:30–10:00Capturing Nonlinear Structure in Word Spaces through Dimensionality Reduction
David Jurgens and Keith Stevens
10:00–10:30Manifold Learning for the Semi-Supervised Induction of FrameNet Predicates: An Empirical Investigation
Danilo Croce and Daniele Previtali
10:30–11:00Coffee Break
 Invited Talk
11:00–12:10What Is Word Meaning, Really? (And How Can Distributional Models Help Us Describe It?)
Katrin Erk
 Session: Lexical Acquisition (1)
12:10–12:40Relatedness Curves for Acquiring Paraphrases
Georgiana Dinu and Grzegorz Chrupała
12:40–13:10A Regression Model of Adjective-Noun Compositionality in Distributional Semantics
Emiliano Guevara
13:10–14:30Lunch
 Session: Lexical Acquisition (2)
14:30–15:00Semantic Composition with Quotient Algebras
Daoud Clarke, Rudi Lutz and David Weir
15:00–15:30Expectation Vectors: A Semiotics Inspired Approach to Geometric Lexical-Semantic Representation
Justin Washtell
15:30–16:00Coffee Break
 Session: Computational Aspects
16:00–16:30Sketch Techniques for Scaling Distributional Similarity to the Web
Amit Goyal, Jagadeesh Jagaralamudi, Hal Daumé III and Suresh Venkatasubramanian
16:30–17:00Active Learning for Constrained Dirichlet Process Mixture Models
Andreas Vlachos, Zoubin Ghahramani and Ted Briscoe
 Panel
17:00–17:55GEMS panel
17:55–18:00Closing Remarks