Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

• Representations of meaning (special topic this year: see below). 

• Formal approaches to semantics. 

• Lexical semantics. 

• Distributional semantics; data-driven semantics; mathematical methods for semantics. 

• Semantic parsing and interpretation; syntax-semantics interface. 

• Textual inference; entailment and question answering. 

• Frames and semantic role labeling. 

• Semantic ambiguity and underspecification; word sense disambiguation and induction. 

• Semantic annotation and evaluation. 

• Temporal entities and relations; extraction of events and causal and temporal relations 

• Entity linking; pronouns and coreference; singleand cross-document coreference 

• Discourse semantics; discourse structure and presupposition; extra-propositional aspects of meaning; dialogue; semantics-pragmatics interface. 

• Metaphor, irony, and figurative meaning; rhetorical relations. 

• Multiword and idiomatic expressions. 

• Generation and summarization. 

• Knowledge mining and acquisition; semantic web and ontologies; ontology learning and population. 

• Semantics in applications; semantics for social media; sentiment analysis. 

• Grounding; semantics in multimodal approaches. 

• Machine reading.