Distributional compositional semantics in the age of word embeddings:
tasks, resources and methodology

Outline

9:00-9:40 am: Part I. Compositionality in linguistics, philosophy and NLP

1. Theoretical perspectives on compositionality
2. Intro to distributional meaning representations
3. Evaluation paradigms

9:40-10:30 am: Part II. Compositionality in distributional meaning representations (continued)

1. Algebraic composition techniques
2. Syntax-aware approaches

10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break

9:40-10:30 am: Part III. Compositionality in distributional meaning representations (continued)

1. Composition with neural networks
2. Composition at different language levels: sentences, phrases, subword and subcharacter embeddings

11:00-12:30 am: Part IV. Meaningful components of distributional semantic representations

1. The hunt for interpretable dimensions
2. Inducing controllable meaning shifts in the analogy task

12:30-13:00 am: Part V. Hands-on session with Vecto

1. Basic operations
2. Semantic shifts in the analogical reasoning task
3. Comparing compositional sentence representations in sentence classification task