PROGRAM
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Invited Talk: Patrick Pantel "Lexical Semantics in the Prime Time: Applications to Web Search" |
| Session 1 | |
| 9:50 - 10:15 | Marco Baroni and Alessandro Lenci One distributional memory, many semantic spaces |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Yves Peirsman and Dirk Speelman Word Space Models of Lexical Variation |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Session 2 | |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | Klaus Rothenhausler and Hinrich Schuetze Unsupervised Classification with Dependency Based Word Spaces |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Lidan Zhang and Kwok-Ping Chan A Study of Convolution Tree Kernel with Local Alignment |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Amaç Herdagdelen and Marco Baroni BagPack: A general framework to represent semantic relations |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | SHORT PRESENTATIONS : |
| Fridolin Wild, Bernhard Hoisl and Gaston Burek Positioning for Conceptual Development using Latent Semantic Analysis | |
| Ruslan Mitkov, Le An Ha, Andrea Varga and Luz Rello Semantic similarity: which is the best method to compute it? Extrinsic evaluation based on the choice of distractors in multiple-choice tests | |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch break |
| Session 3 | |
| 13:45 - 14:10 | Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado Paraphrase assessment in structured vector space: Exploring parameters and datasets |
| 14:10 - 14:35 | Francesca Fallucchi and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto SVD Feature Selection for Probabilistic Taxonomy Learning |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | Andreas Vlachos, Anna Korhonen and Zoubin Ghahramani Unsupervised and Constrained Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Verb Clustering |
| 15:00 - 15:25 | Tim Van de Cruys A Non-negative Tensor Factorization Model for Selectional Preference Induction |
| 15:25 - 16:00 | SHORT PRESENTATIONS : |
| Beate Dorow, Florian Laws, Lukas Michelbacher, Christian Scheible and Jason Utt A Graph-Theoretic Algorithm for Automatic Extension of Translation Lexicons | |
| Mona Diab and Madhav Krishna Handling Sparsity for Verb Noun Multi-Word Expression Token Classification | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 4 | |
| 16:30 - 16:55 | Eyal Sagi, Stefan Kaufmann and Brady Clark Semantic Density Analysis: Comparing word meaning across time and phonetic space |
| 16:55 - 17:20 | Daoud Clarke Context-theoretic Semantics for Natural Language: an Overview |
| 17:20 - 17:45 | Panel |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Best Paper |