8:50 Opening remarks
9:00 Invited Talk by Mirella Lapata: ”Distributional Models of the Representation and Acquisition of Natural Language Categories” https://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/program/lapata.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
10:00 How we BLESSed distributional semantic evaluation (Marco Baroni and Alessandro Lenci) https://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/program/baroniLenci.GEMS.2011.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Comparison of the Baseline Knowledge-, Corpus-, and Web-based Similarity Measures for Semantic Relations Extraction (Alexander Panchenko) https://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/program/panchenko-gems2011.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
11:30 Distributional semantics from text and images (Elia Bruni, Giang Binh Tran and Marco Baroni) https://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/program/brunietal.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
12:00 Reranking Bilingually Extracted Paraphrases Using Monolingual Distributional Similarity (Tsz Ping Chan, Chris Callison-Burch and Benjamin Van Durme)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Encoding syntactic dependencies by vector permutation (Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo and Giovanni Semeraro) https://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/program/GEMS2011_basile_presentation.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
14:30 Assessing Interpretable, Attribute-related Meaning Representations for Adjective-Noun Phrases in a Similarity Prediction Task (Matthias Hartung and Anette Frank) https://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/program/slides-final.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
15:00 Experimenting with transitive verbs in a DisCoCat (Edward Grefenstette and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh) https://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/program/GEMS.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
15:20 A distributional similarity approach to the detection of semantic change in the Google Books Ngram corpus (Kristina Gulordava and Marco Baroni) https://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/program/gulordava.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
15:40 Coffee break
16:10 Closing session
Position talk by Peter Turney: ”GEMS as the Missing Link between Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics” https://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/program/GEMS-Turney.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
Position talk by Roberto Basili and Danilo Croce: ”Distributional Information, Syntactic Kernels and Compositionality” https://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/program/GEMS2011_BasiliCroce_pos_talk_v1.1.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
Panel discussion (Mona Diab, Anette Frank, Alessandro Lenci)