Embeddings in Natural Language Processing: Theory and Advances in Vector Representations of Meaning

Mohammad Taher Pilehvar is an Assistant Professor at the Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS) and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Taher’s research is primarily in Lexical Semantics with a special focus on representation learning for word senses. Taher has co-instructed multiple tutorials at *ACL conferences and co-organized four SemEval tasks and an EACL workshop on semantic representation. Taher has contributed to the field of lexical semantics with several publications in the recent years, including two best paper nominees at ACL (2013 and 2017) and a survey on vector representations of meaning.