18.2246, Confs: Cognitive Science, Computational Ling/Denmark

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Date: 26-Jul-2007
From: Alessandro Lenci < alessandro.lenci at ilc.cnr.it >
Subject: Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models

 

	
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Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models 
Short Title: CoSMo 2007 

Date: 20-Aug-2007 - 20-Aug-2007 
Location: Roskilde, Denmark 
Contact: Alessandro Lenci 
Contact Email: alessandro.lenci at ilc.cnr.it 
Meeting URL: http://polorovereto.unitn.it/~baroni/beyond_words 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models (CoSMo 2007): Beyond Words and
Documents.

A Workshop in conjunction with:
Context 07: Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and
Using Context 

Call for Participation:

Roskilde University, Denmark
August 21, 2007

Workshop website:
http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/~marco.baroni/beyond_words

Co-chairs:
Marco Baroni (University of Trento)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
Magnus Sahlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)


Topics of the Workshop

Some variation of the so-called distributional hypothesis - i.e. that words with
similar distributional properties have similar semantic properties - lies at the
heart of a number of computational approaches that share the assumption that it
is possible to build semantic space models through the statistical analysis of
the contexts in which words occur.

However, the very notion of context on which semantic spaces rely on gives rise
to various crucial issues both at the theoretical and at the computational
level, which in turn determine a large space of parametric variations. The aim
of this workshop is to foster a fully cross-disciplinary debate around the major
open questions pertaining to the definition and usage of context in
context-based semantic modeling.

Workshop Schedule (subject to change) 

8.30-9.00   Registration

9.00-9.10   Opening Remarks

9.10-9.30   Magnus Sahlgren
             Word Space Models: A Critical Overview

9.30-10.00  Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa and Katsuhiko Toyama
             Effectiveness of Indirect Dependency for Automatic Synonym
             Acquisition

10.00-10.30 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Speelman
             Finding Semantically Related Words in
             Dutch. Co-occurrences versus Syntactic Contexts

10.30-11.00 Tim Van de Cruys
             Exploring Three Way Contexts for Word Sense Discrimination

11.00-11.30 Coffe break

11.30-12.00 Viktor Pekar, Ruslan Mitkov, Dimitar Blagoev and Andrea Mulloni
             Finding Translations for Low-Frequency Words in Comparable
             Corpora

12.00-12.30 Klaus Rothenhäusler and Hinrich Schütze
             Part of Speech Filtered Word Spaces

12.30-13.00 Alessandro Lenci and Marco Baroni
             Word Space Models and Cognitive Research: State of the Art
             and Future Perspectives

Program Committee 

Marco Baroni (University of Trento, co-chair)
Gemma Boleda (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI)
John Bullinaria (University of Birmingham)
Curt Burgess (University of California, Riverside)
Stefan Evert (University of Osnabrück)
Pentti Kanerva (CSLI, Stanford)
Jussi Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, co-chair)
Simonetta Montemagni (ILC-CNR)
Vito Pirrelli (ILC-CNR)
Massimo Poesio (University of Trento)
Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz)
Magnus Sahlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, co-chair)
Fabrizio Sebastiani (ISTI-CNR)
Peter Turney (National Research Council of Canada)
Gabriella Vigliocco (University College, London)

Further Information 

Main conference page:

http://context-07.ruc.dk/






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