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Lexical Semantics Workshop (ESSLLI 2008)

Bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations
Workshop at ESSLLI 2008, Hamburg, August 4-9 2008

Proceedings

Invited speakers

  • Semantic Categorization Using Simple Word Co-occurrence Statistics
    John A. Bullinaria (Birmingham)
  • t.b.a.
    Peter Bosch (Osnabrück)

List of accepted papers

  • Combining methods to learn feature-norm-like concept descriptions
    Eduard Barbu
  • Qualia Structures and their Impact on the Concrete Noun Categorization Task
    Sophia Katrenko, Pieter Adriaans
  • Beyond Words: Semantic Representation of Text in Distributional Models of Language
    Kirill Kireyev
  • Size Matters: Tight and Loose Context Definitions in English Word Space Models
    Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen, Dirk Geeraerts
  • Performance of HAL-like word space models on semantic clustering
    Cyrus Shaoul, Chris Westbury
  • A Comparison of Bag of Words and Syntax-based Approaches for Word Categorization
    Tim Van de Cruys
  • Decorrelation and Shallow Semantic Patterns for Distributional Clustering of Nouns and Verbs
    Yannick Versley
  • Does Latent Semantic Analysis Reflect Human Associations?
    Tonio Wandmacher, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Theodore Alexandrov