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

[[start|Start page]] --
[[background|Background]] --
**Programme and proceedings** --
[[task|Shared tasks]] --
[[cfp|Call for papers]]

===== Proceedings =====

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

{{esslli_2008_lexicalsemantics.pdf|Workshop proceedings}} (PDF, 1.3 MB)
===== Workshop programme =====

//Click titles below to download presentation slides (if available).//

**Monday, August 4th**

  * **14:15-15:00** -- {{talk_baroni.pdf|Introduction to Word Space Models}}\\ Marco Baroni, Stefan Evert, Alessandro Lenci
  * **15:00-15:45** -- Invited talk: //{{talk_bullinaria.pdf|Generating Semantic Representations From Simple Word Co-occurrence Statistics}}//\\ John A. Bullinaria

**Tuesday, August 5th**

  * **14:15-14:45** -- {{talk_lenci.pdf|Introduction to the Shared Tasks}}\\ Alessandro Lenci, Marco Baroni, Stefan Evert
  * **14:45-15:15** -- //{{talk_shaoul.pdf|Performance of HAL-like word space models on semantic clustering}}//\\ Cyrus Shaoul, Chris Westbury — [[http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~westburylab/downloads/HiDEx.download.html|download HiDEx software]]
  * **15:15-15:45** -- //{{talk_barbu.pdf|Combining methods to learn feature-norm-like concept descriptions}}//\\ Eduard Barbu

**Wednesday, August 6th**

  * **14:15-14:45** -- //{{talk_vandecruys.pdf|A Comparison of Bag of Words and Syntax-based Approaches for Word Categorization}}//\\ Tim Van de Cruys
  * **14:45-15:15** -- //{{talk_katrenko.pdf|Qualia Structures and their Impact on the Concrete Noun Categorization Task}}//\\ Sophia Katrenko, Pieter Adriaans
  * **15:15-15:45** -- //{{talk_versley.pdf|Decorrelation and Shallow Semantic Patterns for Distributional Clustering of Nouns and Verbs}}//\\ Yannick Versley

**Thursday, August 7th**

  * **14:15-14:45** -- //{{talk_peirsman.pdf|Size Matters: Tight and Loose Context Definitions in English Word Space Models}}//\\ Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen, Dirk Geeraerts
  * **14:45-15:15** -- //{{talk_wandmacher.pdf|Does Latent Semantic Analysis Reflect Human Associations?}}//\\ Tonio Wandmacher, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Theodore Alexandrov
  * **15:15-15:45** -- //{{talk_kireyev.pdf|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.pdf|Workshop Summary}} and Final Discussion\\ Stefan Evert, Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci