Program

Proceedings of the DiSCo workshop (pdf)

9:00-9:10Welcome
9:10-9:30Gabriella Vigliocco, Mark Andrews and David Vinson - Integrating Experiential and Linguistic information in Semantic Representation
9:30-9:50Falk Huettig - On the use of distributional models of semantic space to investigate human cognition
9:50-10:10Marco Baroni, Brian Murphy and Massimo Poesio - EEG Responds to Conceptual Stimuli and Corpus Semantics
10:10-10:30Christopher Parisien and Suzanne Stevenson - Modelling the Acquisition of Verb Polysemy in Children
10:30-11:00coffee break
11:00-11:20Kris Heylen - Distinguishing the Similar: An analysis of the semantic distinctions captured by distributional models of verb meaning
11:20-11:40Wiebke Wagner, Helmut Schmid and Sabine Schulte im Walde - Verb Sense Disambiguation Using a Predicate-Argument Clustering Model
11:40-12:00Ekaterina Shutova and Simone Teufel - Logical Metonymy: Discovering Classes of Meanings
12:00-12:20Magnus Sahlgren - Higher-order relations in word space
12:20-12:40Armelle Boussidan, Eyal Sagi and Sabine Ploux - Phonaesthemic and Etymological Effects on the Distribution of Senses in Statistical Models of Semantics

Please note: all workshop attendants need to register for the main conference!