Welcome to the 2nd Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP), held on August 3, 2017 and hosted by the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Vancouver, Canada. The workshop is sponsored by DeepMind, Facebook AI Research, and Microsoft Research.

The 2nd Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP aims to continue the spirit of previously successful workshops at ACL/NAACL/EACL, namely RepL4NLP at ACL’16, VSM at NAACL’15 and CVSC at ACL’13/EACL’14/ACL’15, which focused on vector space models of meaning, compositionality, and the application of deep neural networks and spectral methods to NLP. It provides a forum for discussing recent advances on these topics, as well as future research directions in linguistically motivated vector-based models in NLP.