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

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

===== Shared tasks and data sets =====

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.

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.

We offer the following tasks (click on the links for detailed task descriptions and downloads):

  * **modelling free association**
    * [[data:esslli2008:Correlation with Free Association Norms|correlation with free association norms]]
  * **categorization**
    * [[data:esslli2008:Concrete Nouns Categorization|concrete nouns categorization]]
    * [[data:esslli2008:Abstract/Concrete Nouns Discrimination|abstract/concrete nouns discrimination]]
    * [[data:esslli2008:Verb Categorization|verb categorization]]
  * **generation of salient properties of concepts**
    * [[data:esslli2008:Comparison with Speaker-Generated Features|comparison with speaker-generated features]]


