IWCS 2011

Oxford, UK

January 12–14

International Conference on Computational Semantics

Accepted papers

Hiyan Alshawi, Pi-Chuan Chang and Michael Ringgaard. Deterministic Statistical Mapping of Sentences to Underspecified Semantics

Laure Vieu and Nervo Verdezoto. Towards semi-automatic methods for improving WordNet

Niloofar Montazeri and Jerry Hobbs. Elaborating a Knowledge Base for Deep Lexical Semantics

Andrey Gusev, Nathanael Chambers, Divye Raj Khilnani, Pranav Khaitan, Steven Bethard and Dan Jurafsky. Using Query Patterns to Learn the Duration of Events

Manaal Faruqui and Sebastian Pado. Acquiring  entailment pairs across languages and domains: A Data Analysis

Livio Robaldo. On the Maximalization of the witness sets in Independent Set readings

Jason Utt and Sebastian Pado. Ontology-based Distinction between Polysemy and Homonymy

Stephen Wu and William Schuler. Structured Composition of Semantic Vectors

Blake Stephen Howald and E. Graham Katz. The Exploitation of Spatial Information in Narrative Discourse

Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Niloofar Montazeri, Theodore Alexandrov, Jerry Hobbs, Michael C. McCord and Rutu Mulkar-Mehta. Abductive Reasoning with a Large Knowledge Base for Discourse Processing

Hilke Reckman, Jeff Orkin and Deb Roy. Extracting aspects of determiner meaning from dialogue in a virtual world environment

Oliver Bott, Fabian Schlotterbeck and Jakub Szymanik. Interpreting tractable versus intractable reciprocal sentences

Eduardo Blanco and Dan Moldovan. A Model for Composing Semantic Relations

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt. Incremental dialogue act understanding

Carmen Banea and Rada Mihalcea. Word Sense Disambiguation with Multilingual Features

Chee Wee Leong and Rada Mihalcea. Measuring the semantic relatedness between words and images

Yoshihiko Hayashi. A Representation Framework for Cross-lingual/Interlingual Lexical Semantic Correspondences

Voula Gotsoulia. An Abstract Scheme for Representing Semantic Roles and Modelling the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Aurelie Herbelot and Ann Copestake. Formalising and specifying underquantification

Guillaume Bonfante, Bruno Guillaume, Mathieu Morey and Guy Perrier. Modular Graph Rewriting to Compute Semantics

Megumi Ohki, Eric Nichols, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Koji Murakami, Junta Mizuno, Shouko Masuda, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto. Recognizing Confinement in Web Texts

Elisabeth Niemann and Iryna Gurevych. The People's Web meets Linguistic Knowledge: Automatic Sense Alignment of Wikipedia and WordNet

Emiliano Raul Guevara. Computing Semantic Compositionality in Distributional Semantics

Edward Grefenstette, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Stephen Clark, Bob Coecke and Stephen Pulman. Concrete Compositional Sentence Spaces

Justin Washtell. Compositional Expectation: A Purely Distributional Model of Compositional Semantics

Susan Windisch Brown, Dmitriy Dligach and Martha Palmer. VerbNet Class Assignment as a WSD Task

Chitta Baral, Juraj Dzifcak, Marcos Alvarez Gonzalez and Jiayu Zhou. Using Inverse lambda and Generalization to Translate English to Formal Languages

Dan Garrette, Katrin Erk and Raymond Mooney. Integrating Logical Representations with Probabilistic Information using Markov Logic

James Blythe, Jerry Hobbs, Pedro Domingos, Rohit Kate and Raymond Mooney. Implementing Weighted Abduction in Markov Logic