William Noble
Doctoral Student
Linguistics and Theory of ScienceAbout William Noble
I am a PhD student in Computational Linguistics working on semantic change. I'm interested in how the meaning of words change over time, and how that change relates to adaptations made in specific dialogues and speech communities.
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In Search of Meaning and Its Representations for Computational
Linguistics
Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa
Proceedings of the 2022 CLASP Conference on (Dis)embodiment - 2022 -
Probabilistic pragmatics: A dialogical
perspective
Bill Noble, Vladislav Maraev, Ellen Breitholtz
Probabilistic Approaches to Linguistic Theory / edited by Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Rasmus Blanck, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Shalom Lappin, and Aleksandre Maskharashvili - 2022 -
Coordinating taxonomical and observational meaning: The case of genus-differentia
definitions
Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Robin Cooper
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers - 2022 -
Investigating code-switching and disfluencies in bilingual
dialogue
Fahima Ayub Khan, Bill Noble
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts - 2022 -
Classification Systems: Combining taxonomical and perceptual lexical
meaning
Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Robin Cooper
Proceedings of the 3rd Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning Workshop (NALOMA III) - 2022 -
Dialogue act classification is a laughing
matter
Vladislav Maraev, Bill Noble, C. Mazzocconi, Christine Howes
Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Potsdam & The Internet, 20–22 September 2021 / Ellen Breitholtz, Kallirroi Georgila and David Schlangen (eds.) - 2021 -
What do you mean by negotiation? Annotating social media discussions about word
meaning
Bill Noble, Kate Viloria, Staffan Larsson, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, September 20–22, 2021, Potsdam / The Internet - 2021 -
Large-scale text pre-training helps with dialogue act recognition, but not without
fine-tuning
Bill Noble, Vladislav Maraev
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics, June 17-18, 2021, Groningen, The Netherlands (Online) - 2021 -
Semantic shift in social
networks
Bill Noble, Asad Sayeed, R. Fernández, Staffan Larsson
Proceedings of *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, August 5 - 6, 2021 Bangkok, Thailand - 2021 -
We went to look for meaning and all we got were these lousy representations: aspects of meaning representation for computational
semantics
Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Nikolai Ilinykh, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa
2021 -
Personae under uncertainty: The case of
topoi
Bill Noble, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper
Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020) Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Christine Howes (Editors), Gothenburg and online14–15 October 2020 - 2020 -
Towards a Formal Model of Word Meaning
Negotiation
Bill Noble, Asad Sayeed, Staffan Larsson
Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts - 2019 -
Neural dialogue act recognition with transformer
pre-training
Bill Noble, Vladislav Maraev
Vector Semantics for Dialogue and Discourse workshop at IWCS 2019, May 24th, 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2019