Call for Papers

With the experiences gained from two previous workshops on Semantic Deep Learning, we would like to take this endeavor one step further by providing a platform at COLING 2018 where researchers and professionals in computational linguistics are invited to report results and systems on the possible contributions of Deep Learning to classic problems in semantic applications, such as meaning representation, dependency parsing, semantic role labelling, word sense disambiguation, semantic relation extraction, statistical relational learning, knowledge base completion, or semantically grounded inference.

There are notable examples of contributions leveraging either deep neural architectures or distributed representations learned via deep neural networks in the broad area of Semantic Web technologies. These include, among others: (lightweight) ontology learning, ontology alignment , ontology annotation, and ontology prediction. Ontologies, on the other hand, have been repeatedly utilized as background knowledge for machine learning tasks. As an example, there is a myriad of hybrid approaches for learning embeddings by jointly incorporating corpus-based evidence and semantic resources. This interplay between structured knowledge and corpus-based approaches has given way to knowledge-rich embeddings, which in turn have proven useful for tasks such as hypernym discovery , collocation discovery and classification, word sense disambiguation, and many others.

We thus invite submissions that illustrate how NLP can benefit from the interaction between deep learning and Semantic Web resources and technologies. At the same time, we are interested in submissions that show how knowledge representation can assist in deep learning tasks deployed in the field of NLP and how knowledge representation systems can build on top of deep learning results, for example in the field of Neural Machine Translation (NMT).

Topics of Interest Include but Are not Limited to:

  • Structured knowledge in deep learning
    • neural networks and logic rules for semantic compositionality
    • learning and applying knowledge graph embeddings to NLP tasks
    • learning semantic similarity and encoding distances as knowledge graph
    • ontology-based text classification
    • multilingual resources for neural representations of linguistics
    • semantic role labeling
  • Deep reasoning and inferences
    • commonsense reasoning and vector space models
    • reasoning with deep learning methods
  • Learning knowledge representations with deep learning
    • deep learning methods for knowledge-base completion
    • deep learning models for learning knowledge representations from text
    • deep learning ontological annotations
  • Joint tasks
    • information retrieval and extraction with knowledge graphs and deep learning models
    • knowledge-based deep word sense disambiguation and entity linking
    • investigation of compatibilities and incompatibilities between deep learning and Semantic Web

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished work, completed or in progress. We encourage various types of submission: full papers (9 pages, excluding references) for mature research work that is evaluated, i.e., experimentally validated and poster/demo submissions (5 pages, excluding references) for presenting early results, working demos, software, services and platforms. In both cases, maximally 2 additional pages for references are allowed.

The COLING 2018 templates must be used. Paper submission will be electronic in PDF format through the SoftConf conference management system: SemDeep_SubmissionPage Workshop Proceedings will be published by COLING 2018.

REVIEWING POLICY


Reviewing will be double-blind, so authors need to conceal their identity. The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations, nor any acknowledgements. Limit anonymized self-references only to articles that are relevant for reviewers.

Important Dates


(Extended) Submission deadline: June 1, 2018 (11:50 pm CET)
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2018
Camera-Ready Papers Due: June 30, 2018
Workshop Dates: August 20, 2018