Lexical Semantics Workshop (ESSLLI 2008)

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

Workshop proceedings (PDF, 1.3 MB)

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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 — download HiDEx software
• 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: Distributional and Compositional Semantics
  Peter Bosch
• 15:00-15:45 – Workshop Summary and Final Discussion
  Stefan Evert, Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci