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Lexical Semantics Workshop (ESSLLI 2008)
Bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations
Workshop at ESSLLI 2008, Hamburg, August 4-8 2008
Proceedings
Workshop proceedings (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Invited speakers
- Generating Semantic Representations From Simple Word Co-occurrence Statistics
John A. Bullinaria (Birmingham) - Common Problems and Mutual Disinterest – Why distributional semanticists and formal semanticist may want to rethink their position
Peter Bosch (Osnabrück)
Workshop programme (preliminary)
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 semanticist may want to rethink their position
Peter Bosch - 15:00-15:45 – Workshop Summary and Final Discussion
Stefan Evert, Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci