JUNE 20
8h15 – Opening of the building
JUNE 21
8h45 – Opening of the building
9h – Registration / coffee
9h30 Welcome + discourses
Video
10h00 – 11h00 – Invited speaker – chair: Johan Bos
Raquel Fernandez, Institute for Logic, Language & Computation, University of Amsterdam
Video
11h00 – 12h30 Main session – chair: James Pustejovsky
- Can current NLI systems handle German word order? Investigating language model performance on a new German challenge set of minimal pairs
Authors: Ines Reinig and Katja Markert
Video - Contextual Variability depends on Categorical Specificity rather than Conceptual Concreteness: A Distributional Investigation on Italian data
Authors: Giulia Rambelli and Marianna Bolognesi
Video - Probing BERT’s ability to encode sentence modality and modal verb sense across varieties of English
Authors: Jonas Wagner and Sina Zarrieß
Video
12h30 – 14h00 Lunch
14h00 -15h00 Main session – chair: Raquel Fernandez
- Dense Paraphrasing for Textual Enrichment
Authors: Jingxuan Tu, Kyeongmin Rim, Eben Holderness, Bingyang Ye and James Pustejovsky
Video - Towards Unsupervised Compositional Entailment with Multi-Graph Embedding Models
Authors: Lorenzo Bertolini, Julie Weeds and David Weir
Video
15h00 – 16h00 Poster session 1
- Gender-tailored Semantic Role Profiling for German
Authors: Manfred Klenner, Anne Göhring, Alison Kim and Dylan Massey - Implicit causality in GPT-2: a case study
Authors: Minh Hien Huynh, Tomas Lentz and Emiel van Miltenburg - Multi-purpose neural network for French categorial grammars
Authors: Gaëtan Margueritte, Daisuke Bekki and Koji Mineshima - Experiments in training transformer sequence-to-sequence DRS parsers
Authors: Ahmet Yildirim and Dag Haug - Unsupervised Semantic Frame Induction Revisited
Authors: Younes Samih and Laura Kallmeyer - Towards Ontologically Grounded and Language-Agnostic Knowledge Graphs
Author: Walid Saba - The Universe of Utterances According to BERT
Authors: Dmitry Nikolaev and Sebastian Padó
16h00 – 16h30 Break
16h30 – 17h30 Main session – chair: Daisuke Bekki
- Sparser is better: one step closer to word embedding interpretability
Authors: Simon Guillot, Thibault Prouteau and Nicolas Dugue
Video - Semantically Informed Data Augmentation for Unscoped Episodic Logical Forms
Authors: Mandar Juvekar, Gene Kim and Lenhart Schubert
Video
17h30 – Conference photo in the courtyard of the building
June 22
9h – Opening of the building
9h30 – 10h30 Main session – chair: Ellen Breitholtz
- Meaning-Text Theory within Abstract Categorial Grammars : Toward Paraphrase and Lexical Function Modeling for Text Generation
Author: Marie Cousin
Video - Measuring Fine-Grained Semantic Equivalence with Abstract Meaning Representation
Authors: Shira Wein, Zhuxin Wang and Nathan Schneider
Video
10h30-11h00 Break
11h00 – 12h30 Main session – Chair: Lucia Donatelli
- The Importance of Context in the Evaluation of Word Embeddings: The Effects of Antonymy and Polysemy
Authors: James Fodor, Simon De Deyne and Shinsuke Suzuki
Video - RaTE: a Reproducible automatic Taxonomy Evaluation by Filling the Gap
Authors: Tianjian Lucas Gao and Phillippe Langlais
Video - The Universal Anaphora Scorer 2.0
Authors: Juntao Yu, Michal Novák, Abdulrahman Aloraini, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Silviu Paun, Sameer Pradhan and Massimo Poesio
Video
12h30 – 14h00 Lunch
14h00 – 15h30 Main session – chair: Lasha Abzianidze
- The Sequence Notation: Catching Complex Meanings in Simple Graphs
Authors: Johan Bos
Video - Bridging Semantic Frameworks: mapping DRS onto AMR
Authors: Siyana Pavlova, Maxime Amblard and Bruno Guillaume
Video - Data-Driven Frame-Semantic Parsing with Tree Wrapping Grammar
Authors: Tatiana Bladier, Laura Kallmeyer and Kilian Evang
Video
15h30 – 16h00 Break
16h00 – 18h00 Unconferencing event
- Open discussions: Come up with your favorite topics!
19:00 Gala diner
June 23
9h30 – Opening of the building
10h00 – 11h00 Invited speaker – chair: Nathan Schneider
Lucia Donatelli, Assistant Professor at the Computational Linguistics and Text Mining Lab (CLTL) at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam
Video
11h00 – 12h30 Break and poster session
- The argument–adjunct distinction in BERT: A FrameNet-based investigation
Authors: Dmitry Nikolaev and Sebastian Padó - Collecting and Predicting Neurocognitive Norms for Mandarin Chinese
Authors: Le Qiu, Yu-Yin Hsu and Emmanuele Chersoni - Error Exploration for Automatic Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing
Authors: Maria Boritchev and Johannes Heinecke - Unsupervised Methods for Domain Specific Ambiguity Detection. The Case of German Physics Language
Authors: Vitor Fontanella, Christian Wartena and Gunnar Friege - Definition Modeling : To model definitions. Generating Definitions With Little to No Semantics
Authors: Vincent Segonne and Timothee Mickus - SMARAGD: Learning SMatch for Accurate and Rapid Approximate Graph Distance
Authors: Juri Opitz, Philipp Meier and Anette Frank - AMR4NLI: Interpretable and robust NLI measures from semantic graph
Authors: Juri Opitz, Shira Wein, Julius Steen, Anette Frank and Nathan Schneider
12h 30 – 14h00 Lunch
14h00 – 16h00 Session – chair: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
- Use Defines Possibilities: Reasoning about Object Function to Interpret and Execute Robot Instructions
Authors: Mollie Shichman, Claire Bonial, Austin Blodgett, Taylor Hudson, Francis Ferraro and Rachel Rudinger
Video - SimpleMTOD: A Simple Language Model for Multimodal Task-Oriented Dialogue with Symbolic Scene Representation
Authors: Bhathiya Hemanthage, Christian Dondrup, Phil Bartie and Oliver Lemon
Video - Grounding and Distinguishing Conceptual Vocabulary Through Similarity Learning in Embodied Simulations
Authors: Sadaf Ghaffari and Nikhil Krishnaswamy
Video - Interactive Acquisition of Fine-grained Visual Concepts by Exploiting Semantics of Generic Characterizations in Discourse
Authors: Jonghyuk Park, Alex Lascarides and Subramanian Ramamoorthy
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