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-Draft of the Expression of Interest Call: +The page you are looking for has moved to [[http://wordspace.collocations.de/doku.php/workshop:esslli:start]].
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-Corpus-based distributional semantic models (such as LSA or HAL) +
-capture many aspects of word meaning and they have been proposed as +
-plausible simulations of some properties of how human semantic +
-representation works. +
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-However, evaluation of these models tend to focus on large scale +
-quantitative tasks, often more oriented towards engineering +
-applications (see, e.g., the recent SEMEVAL evaluation campaign) than +
-towards the challenges from formal semantics, linguistic theory, +
-philosophy and cognitive science. +
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-Moreover, whereas human lexical semantic competence is obviously +
-multi-faceted, ranging from free association to taxonomic judgments to +
-relational effects, tests of distributional models tend to focus on a +
-single aspect, and few if any models have been tuned to tackle +
-different facets of semantics in an integrated manner. +
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-Our workshop purports to fill these gaps by inviting single developers +
-and research teams to test their models on a variety of small but +
-carefully designed datasets, that aim to bring out linguistically and +
-cognitively interesting aspects of semantics, including categorization +
-tasks (e.g., classifying nouns into abstract and concrete or finding +
-relational adjectives), extraction of salient properties, XXX ADD MORE +
-TASK DESCRIPTIONS XXX +
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-The focus is not on competition, but on understanding how different +
-models highlight different semantic aspects, and how far we are from +
-integrated models of all such aspects. To this effect, the annotated +
-datasets will be distributed to the participants, that will be +
-encouraged to explore them and highlight interesting aspects of their +
-models' performance, perform error analysis, etc. +
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-Theoretical and experimental papers related to the task datasets and +
-simulation results are also invited. +
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-Through collaborative preparatory work on the Word Space wiki +
-(http://wordspace.collocations.de) and thanks to the ESSLLI +
-multiple-day workshop format, we hope that this initiative will foster +
-collaboration among the nascent community of researchers interested in +
-computational semantics from a theoretical rather than applicative +
-point of view. +
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-We ask for expressions of interest from researchers and teams that +
-might take part in the initiative and might want to have a say in test +
-set design (a subsequent mail will provide deadlines for data-set +
-creation and workshop submission.) +
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-XXX CONTACT INFO XXX+
  
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