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Mohammad Mehdi Ghanimifard

Doctoral student

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Mohammad Mehdi Ghanimifard
Doctoral student
Computational Linguistics
mehdi.ghanimifard@gu.se
+46 31 786 4038

Room number: 113
Postal Address: Box 200, 40530 Göteborg
Visiting Address: Dicksonsgatan 4 , 41256 Göteborg


Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit at Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (More Information)
Box 200
405 30 Göteborg
www.flov.gu.se
flov@flov.gu.se
Visiting Address: Olof Wijksgatan 6 , 412 55 Göteborg

About Mohammad Mehdi Ghanimifard

I am PhD candidate in Computational Linguistics. My research is in grounded language generation and understanding with neural language models. The aim is to combine linguistic representations with uncertain perceptual representations in a single framework.

I think fusion of different modalities is one of the core questions in modelling. In a sense, understanding is about changing several representations or mapping them into an actionable representation. Modelling language essentially deals with high level representations. When we deal with grounded language in visual perception, several different levels of representations for both vision and language models is required. This includes explanation about "when" and "where" system needs "what" kind of composition and fusion of representations. Modelling spatial language deals with all these aspects. This is why the focus of my research is mainly on spatial language.

In addition to my research as PhD student, I have been TA for following courses in Master in Language Technology (MLT) programme in last three/four years:

  • Artificial intelligence: Cognitive systems (Formerly: "Embodied and Situated Language Processing") (November-January)
  • Statistical Methods for NLP (January to March)
  • Computational Semantics (April-June)

 

Research areas

Major publications

What goes into a word: generating image descriptions with top-down spatial knowledge
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-2019), Tokyo, Japan, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

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What a neural language model tells us about spatial relations
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) at NAACL-HLT 2019, June 6, 2019 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019

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Knowing When to Look For What and Where: Evaluating Generation of Spatial Descriptions with Adaptive Attention
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops , Springer, Cham, 2018

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Exploring the Functional and Geometric Bias of Spatial Relations Using Neural Language Models
Simon Dobnik, Mehdi Ghanimifard, John D. Kelleher
Proceedings of SpLU 2018 at NAACL-HLT 2018, June 6, 2018 New Orleans, Louisiana / Parisa Kordjamshidi, Archna Bhatia, James Pustejovsky, Marie-Francine Moens (eds.) , New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018

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"Deep" Learning : Detecting Metaphoricity in Adjective-Noun Pairs
Yuri Bizzoni, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Mehdi Ghanimifard
Proceedings of the Workshop on Stylistic Variation, EMNLP2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7–11, 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017

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Learning to Compose Spatial Relations with Grounded Neural Language Models
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of IWCS 2017: 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics, Montpellier 19-22 September 2017 / Claire Gardent and Christian Retoré (eds.), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

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Latest publications

What goes into a word: generating image descriptions with top-down spatial knowledge
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-2019), Tokyo, Japan, Association for Computational Linguistics, Conference paper 2019
Conference paper

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Synthetic Propaganda Embeddings to Train a Linear Projection
Adam Ek, Mehdi Ghanimifard
Proceedings of The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom, Hong Kong, Association for Computational Linguistics, Conference paper 2019
Conference paper

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Interactive visual grounding with neural networks
José Miguel Cano Santín, Simon Dobnik, Mehdi Ghanimifard
Proceedings of LondonLogue - Semdial 2019: The 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, London, UK, Queen Mary University of London, Conference paper 2019
Conference paper

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What a neural language model tells us about spatial relations
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) at NAACL-HLT 2019, June 6, 2019 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Conference paper 2019
Conference paper

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Language, Action and Perception (APL-ESSLLI): Lecture Notes of a Course in Language and Computation
Simon Dobnik, John D. Kelleher, Mehdi Ghanimifard
ESSLLI 2019, 31 European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information, Riga, Latvia, University of Latvia, Conference contribution 2019
Conference contribution

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Knowing When to Look For What and Where: Evaluating Generation of Spatial Descriptions with Adaptive Attention
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops , Springer, Cham, Conference paper 2018
Conference paper

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Bigrams and BiLSTMs Two neural networks for sequential metaphor detection
Yuri Bizzoni, Mehdi Ghanimifard
Proceedings of the Workshop on Figurative Language Processing at NAACL HLT 2018. 6 June 2018 New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Conference paper 2018
Conference paper

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Visual grounding of spatial relations in recurrent neural language models
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Workshop on Models and Representations in Spatial Cognition (MRSC-3) at 11th International Conference on Spatial Cognition 2018, 5 September 2018, Tübingen, Germany, Conference contribution 2018
Conference contribution

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Exploring the Functional and Geometric Bias of Spatial Relations Using Neural Language Models
Simon Dobnik, Mehdi Ghanimifard, John D. Kelleher
Proceedings of SpLU 2018 at NAACL-HLT 2018, June 6, 2018 New Orleans, Louisiana / Parisa Kordjamshidi, Archna Bhatia, James Pustejovsky, Marie-Francine Moens (eds.) , New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Conference paper 2018
Conference paper

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"Deep" Learning : Detecting Metaphoricity in Adjective-Noun Pairs
Yuri Bizzoni, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Mehdi Ghanimifard
Proceedings of the Workshop on Stylistic Variation, EMNLP2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7–11, 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Conference paper 2017
Conference paper

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on a web page

Major publications

What goes into a word: generating image descriptions with top-down spatial knowledge
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-2019), Tokyo, Japan, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

Read the full text
on a web page

What a neural language model tells us about spatial relations
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) at NAACL-HLT 2019, June 6, 2019 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019

Read the full text
on a web page

Knowing When to Look For What and Where: Evaluating Generation of Spatial Descriptions with Adaptive Attention
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops , Springer, Cham, 2018

Read the full text
PDF

Exploring the Functional and Geometric Bias of Spatial Relations Using Neural Language Models
Simon Dobnik, Mehdi Ghanimifard, John D. Kelleher
Proceedings of SpLU 2018 at NAACL-HLT 2018, June 6, 2018 New Orleans, Louisiana / Parisa Kordjamshidi, Archna Bhatia, James Pustejovsky, Marie-Francine Moens (eds.) , New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018

Read the full text
on a web page

"Deep" Learning : Detecting Metaphoricity in Adjective-Noun Pairs
Yuri Bizzoni, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Mehdi Ghanimifard
Proceedings of the Workshop on Stylistic Variation, EMNLP2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7–11, 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017

Read the full text
on a web page

Learning to Compose Spatial Relations with Grounded Neural Language Models
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of IWCS 2017: 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics, Montpellier 19-22 September 2017 / Claire Gardent and Christian Retoré (eds.), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

Read the full text
on a web page

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2019

What goes into a word: generating image descriptions with top-down spatial knowledge
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-2019), Tokyo, Japan, Association for Computational Linguistics, Conference paper 2019
Conference paper

Read the full text
on a web page

Synthetic Propaganda Embeddings to Train a Linear Projection
Adam Ek, Mehdi Ghanimifard
Proceedings of The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom, Hong Kong, Association for Computational Linguistics, Conference paper 2019
Conference paper

Read the full text
PDF

Interactive visual grounding with neural networks
José Miguel Cano Santín, Simon Dobnik, Mehdi Ghanimifard
Proceedings of LondonLogue - Semdial 2019: The 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, London, UK, Queen Mary University of London, Conference paper 2019
Conference paper

Read the full text
on a web page

What a neural language model tells us about spatial relations
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) at NAACL-HLT 2019, June 6, 2019 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Conference paper 2019
Conference paper

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on a web page

Language, Action and Perception (APL-ESSLLI): Lecture Notes of a Course in Language and Computation
Simon Dobnik, John D. Kelleher, Mehdi Ghanimifard
ESSLLI 2019, 31 European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information, Riga, Latvia, University of Latvia, Conference contribution 2019
Conference contribution

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on a web page

2018

Knowing When to Look For What and Where: Evaluating Generation of Spatial Descriptions with Adaptive Attention
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops , Springer, Cham, Conference paper 2018
Conference paper

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PDF

Bigrams and BiLSTMs Two neural networks for sequential metaphor detection
Yuri Bizzoni, Mehdi Ghanimifard
Proceedings of the Workshop on Figurative Language Processing at NAACL HLT 2018. 6 June 2018 New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Conference paper 2018
Conference paper

Read the full text
on a web page

Visual grounding of spatial relations in recurrent neural language models
Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik
Workshop on Models and Representations in Spatial Cognition (MRSC-3) at 11th International Conference on Spatial Cognition 2018, 5 September 2018, Tübingen, Germany, Conference contribution 2018
Conference contribution

Read the full text
PDF

Exploring the Functional and Geometric Bias of Spatial Relations Using Neural Language Models
Simon Dobnik, Mehdi Ghanimifard, John D. Kelleher
Proceedings of SpLU 2018 at NAACL-HLT 2018, June 6, 2018 New Orleans, Louisiana / Parisa Kordjamshidi, Archna Bhatia, James Pustejovsky, Marie-Francine Moens (eds.) , New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Conference paper 2018
Conference paper

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on a web page

2017

"Deep" Learning : Detecting Metaphoricity in Adjective-Noun Pairs
Yuri Bizzoni, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Mehdi Ghanimifard
Proceedings of the Workshop on Stylistic Variation, EMNLP2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7–11, 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Conference paper 2017
Conference paper

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