IWCS 2013 Workshop: Towards a formal distributional semantics
When Mar 19, 2013 – Mar 22, 2013
Where Potsdam, Germany
Submission Deadline Nov 30, 2012
Notification Due Jan 4, 2013
Final Version Due Jan 25, 2013
From the call for papers:
The Tenth International Conference for Computational Semantics (IWCS) will be held March 20–22, 2013 in Potsdam, Germany.
The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in the computation, annotation, extraction, and representation of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and statistical approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between.
Topics of Interest
Areas of special interest for the conference will be computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or multimodal communication. Papers are invited that are concerned with topics in these and closely related areas, including the following:
- representation of meaning
- syntax-semantics interface
- representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
- shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
- hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to representing semantics
- alternative approaches to compositional semantics
- inference methods for computational semantics
- recognizing textual entailment
- learning by reading
- methodologies and practices for semantic annotation
- machine learning of semantic structures
- statistical semantics
- computational aspects of lexical semantics
- semantics and ontologies
- semantic web and natural language processing
- semantic aspects of language generation
- semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
- semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
- multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning
- semantics-pragmatics interface
Definitely sounds like a topic map sort of meeting!