Call for Papers

DiSCo 2009: Distributional Semantics beyond Concrete Concepts

Overview

DiSCo 2009 is a pre-conference workshop organized on July 29th, at CogSci-2009, Amsterdam. It focuses on distributional models of (lexical) semantics, like LSA or HAL, that aim to model the meaning of a word in terms of its contexts in a corpus. To this day, these approaches have mainly been used in the modeling of concrete concepts, where they have proved very successful. The DiSCo workshop therefore wants to focus on a number of challenges that have been left relatively unexplored so far. These challenges include, but are not limited to:

  • The modeling of verb meaning.
  • The modeling of different aspects of semantics, like the extraction of concept properties from text.
  • The combination of different types of (linguistic and non-linguistic) data.

DiSCo aims to bring together computational linguists and cognitive scientists interested in distributional models of semantics. We welcome all researchers to submit novel and interesting work in the field of distributional semantics, with specific attention to the new challenges set out above. Additionally, we are interested in receiving other contributions that further research on distributional models and/or their implications for cognitive science.

Submission details

Submissions should adhere to the CogSci style files, and should be no longer than 6 pages. They need to be submitted in pdf-format. More information can be found on the submission page.

Important dates

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Program Committee

  • Marco Baroni, University of Trento, Italy
  • Yves Bestgen, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Simon Dennis, Ohio State University, USA
  • Simon de Deyne, University of Leuven, Belgium
  • Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Stefan Evert, University of Osnabrück, Germany
  • Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven, Belgium
  • Peter Hastings, DePaul University, USA
  • Falk Huettig, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
  • Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy
  • Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex, UK
  • Danielle McNamara, University of Memphis, USA
  • Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Yves Peirsman, University of Leuven, Belgium (co-organizer)
  • Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Tim Van de Cruys, University of Groningen, Netherlands (co-organizer)
  • Yannick Versley, University of Trento, Italy (co-organizer)