Workshop Programme
Day 1: Wednesday 20 May
| 09:30–10:00 |
Welcome and introduction |
| 10:00–11:30 |
Session 1: Interaction & meaning |
| 10:00–10:30 |
Tania Marques and Michael Rovatsos – Towards a Taxonomy of Task-Oriented Domains of Communication |
| 10:30–11:00 |
Michael Anslow and Michael Rovatsos – Bridging the Gap between Graph-based Semantic Structures and Experientially Grounded Representations |
| 11:00–11:15 |
Paula Chocron and Marco Schorlemmer – Social Coordination Systems with Ontology Heterogeneity |
| 11:15–11:30 |
Kemo Adrian – Argumentation and agreement over concept's meaning in simple scenarios |
| 11:30–12:00 |
Coffee break |
| 12:00–13:00 |
Session 2: Evolution & learning |
| 12:00–12:30 |
Yana Knight, Michael Spranger and Luc Steels – A vector representation of Fluid Construction Grammar using Holographic Reduced Representations: first steps and a small case study |
| 12:30–12:45 |
Emilia Garcia-Casademont – Tracking Language Evolution: Construction Distance |
| 12:45–13:00 |
Yanchao Yu, Oliver Lemon and Arash Eshghi – Interactive Learning for Multimodal Language Grounding |
| 13:00–14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30–15:30 |
Session 3: Data & semantics |
| 14:30–14:45 |
Mercedes Huertas-Migueláñez – Crowdsourcing for building and maintaining multilingual knowledge resources |
| 14:45–15:00 |
Aimilios Vourliotakis, Michael Rovatsos and Carlos Ruiz Moreno – Validation of entity relations in linked data |
| 15:00–15:15 |
Abhijeet Gupta, Gemma Boleda, Marco Baroni and Sebastian Padó – Mapping conceptual features to referential properties |
| 15:15–15:30 |
Kwabena Amoako Nuamah – Using Rich Inference to Find Novel Answers to Questions |
| 15:30–16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00–18:00 |
Poster Session |
Day 2: Thursday 21 May
| 09:30–10:30 |
Invited talk: Luc Steels |
| 10:30–11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00–13:00 |
Session 4: Human communication |
| 11:00–11:30 |
Julian Schlöder – Towards a Formal Semantics of Pitch Contour |
| 11:30–12:00 |
Thomas Brochhagen – Minimal Requirements for Productive Compositional Signaling |
| 12:00–12:30 |
Paul Van Eecke – Achieving Robustness through the Integration of Language Production in Comprehension |
| 13:00–14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30–15:45 |
Session 5: Ontologies & semantics |
| 14:30–15:00 |
Paolo Pareti, Benoît Testu, Ryutaro Ichise, Ewan Klein and Adam Barker –Integrating Know-How into the Linked Data Cloud |
| 15:00–15:30 |
David Pearce and Agustin Valverde – Synonymy in Computational Knowledge Systems: An Example and some Research Challenges |
| 15:30–15:45 |
Mattia Fumagalli – An Ontological Foundation for ER Models |
| 15:45–16:15 |
Coffee break |
| 16:15–17:30 |
Panel discussion & award giving |
| 20:30–23:00 |
Social Dinner |
| 15:30–16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00–18:00 |
Poster Session |
Day 3: Friday 22 May
| 09:30–11:00 |
Session 6: Application challenges |
| 09:30–10:00 |
Indrek Jentson – How to Record the Meaning of the Figurative Language |
| 10:00–10:30 |
Nicola Bova and Michael Rovatsos – Towards a Framework for Winograd Schemas Resolution |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Mladjan Jovanovic – Gamifying Knowledge Maintenance |
| 11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break (closing of open workshop part) |
| 11:30–13:00 |
Project meeting (only for ESSENCE network members) |
| 13:00–14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30–17:30 |
Training session (only for ESSENCE Fellows) |
Evolution of Shared SEmaNtics in Computational Environments – A Marie Curie Initial Training Network
