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-====== Lexical Semantics Workshop (ESSLLI 2008)  ====== +The page you are looking for has moved to [[http://wordspace.collocations.de/doku.php/workshop:esslli:start]].
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-**Bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations**\\ +
-//Workshop at [[http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/|ESSLLI 2008]], Hamburg, August 4-9 2008//  +
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-===== Background and motivation ===== +
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-[[http://wordspace.collocations.de/lib/exe/fetch.php/esslli:lexical_semantics_workshop_-_motivational_poster.pdf?id=esslli%3Astart&cache=cache|{{ esslli:motivational_poster_thumb.jpg|Motivational Poster}}]] +
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-Corpus-based distributional models (such as LSA or HAL) +
-have been claimed to capture interesting aspects of word meaning +
-and provide an explanation for the rapid acquisition of semantic +
-knowledge by human language learners.  +
-However, although these models have been proposed as +
-plausible simulations of human semantic space organization, +
-careful and extensive empirical tests of such claims are still lacking. +
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-Systematic evaluations typically focus on large-scale +
-quantitative tasks, often more oriented towards engineering +
-applications (see, e.g., the recent SEMEVAL evaluation campaign) than +
-towards the challenges posed by linguistic theory, +
-philosophy and cognitive science.  This has resulted in a great divide  +
-between corpus-driven computational approaches to semantics on the one +
-hand and theory-driven symbolic approaches on the other -- a situation that +
-is characteristic of the linguistic and of most +
-of the cognitive tradition. +
-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 (most typically the detection of semantic similarity), +
-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 research teams and +
-individual scholars to test their computational models on a variety of small but +
-carefully designed tasks that aim to bring out linguistically and +
-cognitively interesting aspects of semantics +
-([[#Tasks and data sets|see below]] for details).  To this effect, annotated +
-datasets are available to the participants, who are +
-encouraged to explore them and highlight interesting aspects of their +
-models' performance, conduct quantitative and qualitative error analysis, etc. +
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-The focus is NOT on competition, but on understanding how different +
-models highlight different semantic aspects, how far we are from +
-an integrated model, and which aspects of semantics are beyond the +
-reach of purely distributional approaches.  +
-In fact, we believe that at the current state of the art in +
-computational and distributional semantics, our goal should not be +
-to develop the best-performing model for a specific application, but rather +
-to enlarge our understanding of the limits and potentialities  +
-of different approaches when confronted with cognitively realistic tasks.  +
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-In addition to these practical tasks, theoretical and experimental papers +
-discussing the relation between distributional and symbolic approaches to meaning +
-are also invited.  We are particularly interested in papers that analyze our +
-task data sets from a theoretical perspective or that discuss simulation results +
-and their implications for semantic and cognitive theory. +
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-Through collaborative preparatory work on the Word Space wiki ([[http://wordspace.collocations.de/|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 engineering-oriented point of view. +
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-For further information, please write to [[lexsem08@gmail.com|lexsem08@gmail.com]], and/or subscribe to the [[http://wordspace.collocations.de/doku.php/wiki_subscription|workshop wiki RSS feed]]. +
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-===== Tasks and data sets ===== +
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-In order to reach a better understanding of the possibilities and limitations +
-of distributional models of word meaning, we envisaged a number of tasks that +
-focus on linguistic and cognitive challenges rather than application engineering. +
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-Small annotated data sets are available on the workshop page and participants are invited +
-to apply their computational models and conduct a thorough analysis of the results. +
-The goal is not to achieve better precision than competitors, but to understand +
-the strengths and weaknesses of individual models, analyze and explain errors, etc. +
-Theoretical discussions of the data sets from a linguistic or cognitive perspective +
-are also invited and will complement the empirical findings. +
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-Ongoing work on data set preparation can be monitored at [[http://wordspace.collocations.de/doku.php/data:start|http://wordspace.collocations.de/doku.php/data:start]].  +
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-We offer the following tasks (click on the links for detailed task descriptions and downloads): +
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-  * **categorization** +
-    * [[data:Concrete Nouns Categorization|concrete nouns categorization]] +
-    * [[data:Abstract/Concrete Nouns Discrimination|abstract/concrete nouns discrimination]] +
-    * [[data:Verb Categorization|verb categorization]] +
-  * **modelling free association** +
-    * [[data:Correlation with Free Association Norms|correlation with free association norms]] +
-  * **generation of salient properties of concepts** +
-    * [[data:Comparison with Speaker-Generated Features|comparison with speaker-generated features]] +
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-===== Workshop information ===== +
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-=== Dates === +
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-  * **April 4, 2008**: Paper submission deadline +
-  * **April 24, 2008**: Notification +
-  * **August 4-9, 2008**: Workshop in Hamburg (during the first week of ESSLLI) +
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-=== Programme Committee === +
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-Marco Baroni (University of Trento) **(co-organizer)**\\ +
-Reinhard Blutner (University of Amsterdam)\\ +
-Gemma Boleda (UPF, Barcelona)\\ +
-Peter Bosch (University of Osnabrück)\\ +
-Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrücken)\\ +
-John Bullinaria (University of Birmingham)\\ +
-Katrin Erk (UT, Austin)\\ +
-Stefan Evert (University of Osnabrück) **(co-organizer)**\\ +
-Patrick Hanks (Masaryk University, Brno)\\ +
-Anna Korhonen (Cambridge University)\\ +
-Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam)\\ +
-Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) **(co-organizer)**\\ +
-Claudia Maienborn (University of Tübingen)\\ +
-Simonetta Montemagni (ILC-CNR, Pisa)\\ +
-Rainer Osswald (University of Hagen)\\ +
-Manfred Pinkal (University of Saarland)\\ +
-Massimo Poesio (University of Trento)\\ +
-Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz)\\ +
-Magnus Sahlgren (SICS, Kista)\\ +
-Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart)\\ +
-Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam)\\ +
-Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto)\\ +
-Peter Turney (NRC Canada, Ottawa)\\ +
-Tim Van de Cruys (University of Groningen)\\ +
-Gabriella Vigliocco (University College, London)\\ +
-Chris Westbury (University of Alberta) +
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-===== Paper submission ===== +
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-We welcome papers reporting results of experimenting +
-with word space models on one or more workshop tasks, as well as +
- comparing different models on the same task(s) (authors are asked to carry out their own evaluation, using, if possible, the tools provided on the Website). +
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-We also welcome papers focussing on: +
-  * methodological and theoretical issues concerning word space models; +
-  * open challenges for distributional methods for semantic analysis; +
-  * interactions with formal approaches to meaning; +
-  * interaction with cognitive research on human semantic memory. +
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-The papers should not be longer than 8 pages, and they should be +
-submitted anonymously in PDF format following the +
-[[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html|ACL 2008 stylesheet]]. +
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-Submission must be sent to [[lexsem08@gmail.com|lexsem08@gmail.com]], +
-no later than **April 4**, +
-specifying PAPER SUBMISSION in the subject and the authors' +
-names and affiliation in the message body. +
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-=== Workshop homepage === +
-[[http://wordspace.collocations.de/doku.php?id=esslli:start|http://wordspace.collocations.de/doku.php?id=esslli:start]] +
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-=== ESSLLI 2008 homepage === +
-[[http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/|http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/]] +
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