Lexical Semantics Workshop (ESSLLI 2008)

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

Workshop proceedings (PDF, 1.3 MB)

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

As the workshop progresses, we will try to make the talk slides available here.

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
• 14:45-15:15 – Performance of HAL-like word space models on semantic clustering
  Cyrus Shaoul, Chris Westbury
• 15:15-15:45 – Combining methods to learn feature-norm-like concept descriptions
  Eduard Barbu

Wednesday, August 6th

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

Thursday, August 7th

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

Friday, August 8th

• 14:15-15:00 – Invited talk: Common Problems and Mutual Disinterest – Why distributional semanticists and formal semanticists may want to rethink their position
  Peter Bosch
• 15:00-15:45 – Workshop Summary and Final Discussion
  Stefan Evert, Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci