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The 2021 Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science

PROGRAM

16th June 2021

14:00–14:05Opening remarks
Workshop Chairs
14:05–15:05Invited talk: Haim Dubossarsky
15:05–15:20Understanding the Semantic Space: How Word Meanings Dynamically Adapt in the Context of a Sentence
Nora Aguirre-Celis and Risto Miikkulainen
15:20–15:30Universalities in natural languages
Gemma De las Cuevas and Ricard Sole
15:30–15:40Break
15:40–15:55LinPP: a Python-friendly algorithm for Linear Pregroup Parsing
Irene Rizzo
15:55–16:10A CCG-Based Version of the DisCoCat Framework
Richie Yeung and Dimitri Kartsaklis
16:10–16:25Grammar equations
Bob Coecke and Vincent Wang
16:25–16:35Functorial Language Models
Alexis Toumi and Alex Koziell-Pipe
16:35–16:45Break
16:45–17:00On the Quantum-like Contextuality of Ambiguous Phrases
Daphne Wang, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Samson Abramsky and Victor Cervantes
17:00–17:10QNLP: Compositional Models of Meaning on a Quantum Computer
Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Robin Lorenz, Anna Pearson, Alexis Toumi, Giovanni de Felice, Dimitri Kartsaklis and Bob Coecke
17:10–17:20Q-SAWh: a Quantum Search Algorithm to find out Whodunnit
Adriana Correia, Michael Moortgat and H. Stoof
17:20–17:30Break
17:30–18:30Invited Talk: Ellie Pavlick
18:30–18:45Conversational Negation using Worldly Context in Compositional Distributional Semantics
Benjamin Rodatz, Razin Shaikh and Lia Yeh
18:45–19:00Parsing conjunctions in DisCoCirc
Tiffany Duneau
19:00–19:10Compositional Distributional Noun Phrase Plausibility (Abstract)
Lachlan McPheat, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Hadi Wazni
19:10–19:20Break
19:20–19:35Should Semantic Vector Composition be Explicit? Can it be Linear?
Dominic Widdows, Kristen Howell and Trevor Cohen
19:35–19:45Composing Fuzzy Concepts in Conceptual Spaces
Sean Tull
19:45–19:55Sign as an adjunction
Dominic Hughes and Dusko Pavlovic
19:55–20:00Closing remarks
Workshop Chairs