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Lexical Semantics Workshop (ESSLLI 2008)

Bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations
Workshop at ESSLLI 2008, Hamburg, August 4-8 2008

Proceedings

Workshop proceedings (PDF, 1.3 MB)

Invited speakers

  • Generating Semantic Representations From Simple Word Co-occurrence Statistics
    John A. Bullinaria (Birmingham)
  • Common Problems and Mutual Disinterest - Why distributional semanticists and formal semanticist may want to rethink their position
    Peter Bosch (Osnabrück)

Workshop programme (preliminary)

Monday, August 4th

  • 14:15-15:00 – Introduction to Word Space Models
    Marco Baroni, Stefan Evert, Alessandro Lenci
  • 15:00-15:45 – Invited talk: Generating Semantic Representations From Simple Word Co-occurrence Statistics
    John A. Bullinaria

Tuesday, August 5th

  • 14:15-14:45 – Introduction to the Shared Tasks
    Alessandro Lenci, Marco Baroni, Stefan Evert
  • 14:45-15:15Performance of HAL-like word space models on semantic clustering
    Cyrus Shaoul, Chris Westbury
  • 15:15-15:45Combining methods to learn feature-norm-like concept descriptions
    Eduard Barbu

Wednesday, August 6th

  • 14:15-14:45A Comparison of Bag of Words and Syntax-based Approaches for Word Categorization
    Tim Van de Cruys
  • 14:45-15:15Qualia Structures and their Impact on the Concrete Noun Categorization Task
    Sophia Katrenko, Pieter Adriaans
  • 15:15-15:45Decorrelation and Shallow Semantic Patterns for Distributional Clustering of Nouns and Verbs
    Yannick Versley

Thursday, August 7th

  • 14:15-14:45Size Matters: Tight and Loose Context Definitions in English Word Space Models
    Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen, Dirk Geeraerts
  • 14:45-15:15Does Latent Semantic Analysis Reflect Human Associations?
    Tonio Wandmacher, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Theodore Alexandrov
  • 15:15-15:45Beyond Words: Semantic Representation of Text in Distributional Models of Language
    Kirill Kireyev

Friday, August 8th

  • 14:15-15:00 – Invited talk: t.b.a.
    Peter Bosch
  • 15:00-15:45 – Workshop Summary and Final Discussion
    Stefan Evert, Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci