====== Lexical Semantics Workshop (ESSLLI 2008)  ======

**Bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations**\\
//Workshop at [[http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/|ESSLLI 2008]], Hamburg, August 4-8 2008// 

  * [[background|Background and motivation]]
  * [[proceedings|Workshop programme and proceedings]]
  * [[task|Shared tasks]]
  * [[cfp|Call for papers]]

===== Invited speakers =====

  * //Generating Semantic Representations From Simple Word Co-occurrence Statistics//\\ John A. Bullinaria (Birmingham)
  * //Distributional and Compositional Semantics//\\ Peter Bosch (Osnabrück)


===== Programme Committee =====

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)