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© Edward Grefenstette. 
Last updated: September 2011.

Papers and Talks

This publications and talk list may be missing some more recent work. 
A (hopefully) complete and up-to-date list of my publications is available on the Oxford DCS site, as well as on ArXiv.

Books

  • E. Grefenstette, C. Heunen, M. Sadrzadeh (eds), Compositional Methods in Physics and Linguistics (working title), Oxford University Press, Expected 2012.
Book Chapters

  • E. Grefenstette, M. Sadrzadeh, S. Clark, B. Coecke and S. Pulman, "Concrete Compositional Sentence Spaces," to appear in Computing Meaning Vol. 4 (H. Bunt, J. Bos and S. Pulman, eds.), Springer, Expected 2012.
Refereed Journal Papers

  • E. Grefenstette, "Inverted/Absent Qualia and the Problem of Epiphenomenalism," British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy 1(3), July 2006.
  • E. Grefenstette, "Review of Tim Crane's 'The Mechanical Mind: A Philosophical Introduction to Minds, Machines and Mental Representation'," British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy 1(2), March 2006.

Refereed Conference Papers

  • E. Grefenstette and M. Sadrzadeh, "Experimenting with transitive verbs in a DisCoCat," Proceedings of the GEMS 2011 Workshop on GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics, 2011.
  • E. Grefenstette and M. Sadrzadeh, "Experimental Support for a Categorical Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning," Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011.
  • M. Sadrzadeh and E. Grefenstette, "A Compositional Distributional Semantics Two Concrete Constructions andsome Experimental Evaluations," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2012.
  • E. Grefenstette, M. Sadrzadeh, S. Clark, B. Coecke and S. Pulman, "Concrete Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning," Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011), 2011.

Invited Talks

  • CIMeC Research Seminar, University of Trento, Rovereto, "DisCoCat: A (Cat)egorical Framework for (Dis)tributional (Co)mpositional semantics," June 23rd, 2011.
  • Mavir Seminar, UNED, Madrid, "Empirical Validation of Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning," April 28th, 2011.
  • NLP Seminar, University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science, Sheffield, "Categorical Compositionality for Distributional Semantics, Without Tears," April 7th, 2011.
  • NLIP Seminar, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, "Categorical Compositionality for Distributional Semantics" February 25th, 2011.
  • Flowin'Cat 2010, Oxford, "Concrete Sentence Spaces," October 31st, 2010.
  • ESSLLI '10, Copenhagen, "Concrete Compositional Sentence Spaces," August 18th, 2010.
  • Balliol Philosophy Circle, Oxford, "Making Sense of Meaning," May 19th, 2010.
  • University of Dundee Philosophy Society, Dundee, "Expressivism and the problem of Truth," November 27th, 2007.
  • BUPC '07, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, "Is Blackburn's quasi-realism a suitable response to the Frege-Geach problem?"" September 16th, 2007.
  • LUPC '07, London School of Economics, London, "Rise and fall of Gricean implicature," March 17th, 2007.
  • BUPC '06, St John's College, Durham, "Is language a matter of contingency or convention?" September 8th, 2006.
  • BUPC '05, St John's College, Durham, "From Turing to Minsky: epistemological problems of artificial intelligence, and metaphysical solutions," September 24th, 2005.