Connectionists: CfP: ACL Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (CVSC)

[Hugo Larochelle]

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One day Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (CVSC)
Co-located with ACL 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria
August 9, 2013
Submission deadline: April 26, 2013.
https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop/
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First Call for Papers

(Apologies for multiple postings)

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in algorithms that learn and use continuous representations for words, phrases, or documents in many natural language processing applications. Among many others, two influential proposals illustrate this trend: latent Dirichlet allocation and neural network based language models. These approaches are motivated by improving  the generalization power of the discrete standard models, by dealing with the data sparsity issue and by efficiently handling a wide context.  Despite the success of single word vector space models, they are limited since they do not capture compositionality. This prevents them from gaining a deeper understanding of the semantics of longer phrases or sentences.

Another different trend of research on continuous vector space models belongs to the family of spectral methods. The motivation in that context is that working in a continuous space allows for the design of algorithms that are not plagued with the local minima issues that discrete latent space models tend to suffer from.


In this workshop, we invite submissions of papers on continuous vector space models for natural language processing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* learning algorithms for continuous vector space models,
* their compositionality,
* their use in NLP applications,
* spectral learning for NLP,
* neural networks for NLP,
* latent Dirichlet allocation and other continuous representations of documents
* tensor models
* distributed semantic representations

INVITED SPEAKERS

There will be two invited speakers Mirella Lapata and Xavier Carreras, and a panel discussion lead by Chris Manning.


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Authors should submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF format, with up to 2 additional pages for references. The reported research should be substantially original. The papers will be presented orally or as posters.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the ACL 2013 formatting requirements (available at the ACL 2013 website). We strongly advise the use of the provided LaTeX template files. Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided as well.

Submissions must be made through the Softconf website set up for this workshop: 
https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/CVSC2013/


Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no distinction will be made between papers presented orally or as posters.


IMPORTANT DATES

26 April 2013        : Submission deadline
24 May 2013          : Notification of acceptance
7 June 2013          : Camera-ready deadline
8 or 9 August 2013   : Workshop

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Antoine Bordes (Université Technologique de Compiègne, France)
Léon Bottou (Microsoft Research, USA)
Xavier Carreras (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Shay Cohen (Columbia University, USA)
Michael Collins (Columbia University, USA)
Ronan Collobert (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland)
Kevin Duh (University of Washington, USA)
Dean Foster (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Percy Liang (Stanford University, USA)
Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, England)
John Platt (Microsoft Research, USA)
Holger Schwenk (Université du Maine, France)
Jason Weston (Google, USA)
Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS/Université Paris-Sud, France)


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/Université Paris-Sud, France)
Hugo Larochelle (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Chris Manning (Stanford University, USA)
Richard Socher (Stanford University, USA)
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