bill noble meaning in flux

publications and presentations

2024

  • Bill Noble, Francesco Periti, and Nina Tahmasebi. Improving word usage graphs with edge induction. In Nina Tahmasebi, Syrielle Montariol, Andrey Kutuzov, David Alfter, Francesco Periti, Pierluigi Cassotti, and Netta Huebscher, editors, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, pages 92–107, Bangkok, Thailand, August 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics.

2023

  • Bill Noble. Semantic Change in Interaction: Studies on the Dynamics of Lexical Meaning. Doctoral Thesis, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2023.

  • Bill Noble and Nikolai Ilinykh. Describe me an auklet: Generating grounded perceptual category descriptions. In Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, and Kalika Bali, editors, Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 9330–9347, Singapore, December 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.

2022

  • Bill Noble, Vladislav Maraev, and Ellen Breitholtz. Probabilistic pragmatics: A dialogical perspective. In Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Rasmus Blanck, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Shalom Lappin, and Aleksandre Maskharashvili, editors, Probabilistic Approaches to Linguistic Theory, pages 227–259. Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2022. [Chapter]

  • Dobnik S., Cooper R., Ek A., Noble B., Larsson S., Ilinykh N., Maraev V., Somashekarappa V. In Search of Meaning and Its Representations for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the 2022 CLASP Conference on (Dis)embodiment. [Paper]

  • Ayub Khan, F, & Noble, B. Investigating code-switching and disfluencies in bilingual dialogue. Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DubDial). [poster]

  • Noble, B., Larsson, S., & Cooper, R. (2022) Classification Systems: Combining taxonomical and perceptual lexical meaning. Proceedings of the 3rd Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning Workshop (NALOMA III). [Paper] [Slides]

  • Noble, B., Larsson, S., & Cooper, R. (2022) Coordinating taxonomical and observational meaning: The case of genus-differentia definitions. Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. [Paper] [Slides]

2021

  • Noble, B., Viloria, K., Larsson, S., & Sayeed, A. (2021). What do you mean by negotiation? Annotating social media discussions about word meaning. Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. [Paper] [Slides] [talk]

  • Maraev, V., Noble, B., Mazzocconi, C., & Howes, C. (2021). Dialogue act classification is a laughing matter. Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. [Paper] [talk]

  • Noble, B., & Maraev, V. (2021). Large-scale text pre-training helps with dialogue act recognition, but not without fine-tuning. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 166–172. [Paper] [talk

  • Noble, B., Sayeed, A., Fernández, R., & Larsson, S. (2021). Semantic shift in social networks. Proceedings of *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. [Paper] [Poster] [talk] [Slides]

  • CLASP Seminar, 26 Feb 2021. Distributional semantics for lexical semantic varition and change [Abstract] [Slides]

2020

  • Noble, B., Breitholtz, E., Cooper, R. (2020) Personae under uncertainty: The case of topoi. Probability and Meaning (PaM 2020) [Paper] [Talk]
  • CLASP Seminar, 26 Feb 2020. The effect of laughter on dialogue act recognition [Abstract]
  • Workshop on Computational Detection of Language Change 2020. Conditional language models for linguistic variation and change [Workshop] [Abstract] [Slides]

2019

  • Noble, B. Towards a formal model of word meaning negotiation. Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts. (SemDial 2019 - LondonLogue) [Abstract] [Poster]
  • Noble, B., Maraev, V. (2019) Neural dialogue act recognition with transformer pre-training. Proceedings of the IWCS Workshop Vector Semantics for Discourse and Dialogue. [Abstract] [Poster]

2018

  • Noble, B. Does semantic adaptation predict semantic change? Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts. (SemDial 2018 - AixDial) [Abstract] [Poster]

Before that

  • Noble, B., & Fernández, R. (2016). Semantic approximation and its effect on the development of lexical conventions. The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANGX11). [Paper]
  • Noble, B., & Fernández, R. (2015). Centre stage: How social network position shapes linguistic coordination. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. Best student paper. [Paper]
  • Noble, B. (2015). All together now… This time with meaning: A hierarchical lexicon for semantic coordination. University of Amsterdam. [MsC Thesis]