Publications

2023

• Erk, K. and Herbelot, A. 2023. How to marry a star: Probabilistic constraints for meaning in context. Accepted at the Journal of Semantics. Pre-print.

• Flechas Manrique, N., Bao, W., Herbelot, A. and Hasson, U. Enhancing Interpretability Using Human Similarity Judgements to Prune Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 6th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 169–179, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.

• Pannitto, L. and Herbelot, A. 2023. CALaMo: a Constructionist Assessment of Language Models. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023), pages 21–30, Washington, D.C.. Association for Computational Linguistics.

2022

• Ceron, T., Truong, N. and Herbelot, A. 2022. Algorithmic Diversity and Tiny Models: Comparing Binary Networks and the Fruit Fly Algorithm on Document Representation Tasks. In Proceedings of The Third Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing (SustaiNLP), pages 17–28, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.

• Fischer, E., Engelhardt, P. and Herbelot, A. 2022. Philosophers’ linguistic expertise: a psycholinguistic approach to the expertise objection against experimental philosophy. In Synthese, 200:33.

• Fischer, E. and Herbelot, A. 2022. How understanding shapes reasoning: Experimental argument analysis with methods from psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. In D. Bordonaba (ed.), Experimental Philosophy of Language. New York: Springer.

• Pannitto, L. and Herbelot, A. 2022. Can Recurrent Neural Networks Validate Usage-Based Theories of Grammar Acquisition? Frontiers in Psychology. Vol. 13.

• Kabbach, A. and Herbelot, A. 2022 Language without shared meaning : preliminary considerations on the evolutionary benefits of subjectivity In Ravignani, A. ed. The evolution of language : proceedings of the Joint conference on language evolution (JCoLE). Kanazawa, Japan - September 5th-8th 2022 - Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. 2022, p. 371-378

2021

• Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. 2021. Ideal words: A vector-based formalisation of semantic competence. In Künstliche Intelligenz (the German Journal for Artificial Intelligence).

• Kabbach, A. and Herbelot, A. 2021. Avoiding Conflict: When Speaker Coordination Does Not Require Conceptual Agreement. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 3:523920.

2020

• Pannitto, L. and Herbelot, A. 2020. Recurrent babbling: evaluating the acquisition of grammar from limited input data. In proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2020).

• Herbelot, A. 2020. Re-solve it: simulating the acquisition of core semantic competences from small data. In proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2020).

• Herbelot, A. 2020. How to stop worrying about compositionality. The Gradient (online magazine).

2019

• Preissner,S. and Herbelot, A. 2019. To be fair: a case for cognitively-inspired models of meaning. Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019). Bari, Italy. Best student paper award

• Seltmann, J., Ducceschi, L. and Herbelot, A. 2019. How much competence is there in performance? Assessing the distributional hypothesis in word bigrams. Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019). Bari, Italy.

• Bloem, J., Fokkens, A. and Herbelot, A. 2019. Evaluating the consistency of word embeddings from small data. Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP2019), Varna, Bulgaria.

• Kabbach, A., Gulordava, K. and Herbelot, A. 2019. Towards incremental learning of word embeddings using context informativeness. Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Florence, Italy.

• Minnema, G. and Herbelot, A. 2019. From brain space to distributional space: the perilous journeys of fMRI decoding. Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Florence, Italy.

• Kuzmenko, E. and Herbelot, A. 2019. Distributional semantics in the real world: building word vector representations from a truth-theoretic model. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2019), Goethenburg, Sweden.

2018

• Kabbach, A., Ribeyre, C. and Herbelot, A. 2018. Butterfly effects in Frame Semantic Parsing: impact of data processing on model ranking. In proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

• Sorodoc, I., Pezzelle, S., Herbelot, A., Dimiccoli, M., Bernardi, R. 2018. Learning quantification from images: A structured neural architecture. Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Closing the Gap between Language and Vision, Vol. 24.3, May 2018. DOI:10.1017/S1351324918000128. (The link here is to the pre-print, arxiv version. The title has changed but it is the same paper!)

2017

• Shekhar, R., Pezzelle, S., Herbelot, A., Nabi, M., Sangineto, E. and Bernardi, R. 2017. Vision and Language Integration: Moving beyond Objects. In proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS2017), Montpellier, France.

• Herbelot, A. and Baroni, M. 2017. High-risk learning: acquiring new word vectors from tiny data. In proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2017), Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Ravi Shekhar, Sandro Pezzelle, Yauhen Klimovich, Aurelie Herbelot, Moin Nabi, Enver Sangineto and Raffaella Bernardi. FOIL it! Find One mismatch between Image and Language caption. In proceedings of the 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2017).

• Behrang QasemiZadeh, Laura Kallmeyer and Aurelie Herbelot. 2017. Non-Negative Randomized Word Embeddings. In proceedings of Traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN2017). To appear.

2016

• Boleda, G. and Herbelot, A. 2016. Formal Distributional Semantics: an introduction to the special issue. In Computational Linguistics. 42(4): 619–635.

• Herbelot, A. and Kochmar, E. 2016. ‘Calling on the classical phone’: a distributional model of adjective-noun errors in learners’ English. In proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), Osaka, Japan.

• Padó, S., Herbelot, A., Kisselew, M. and Snajder, J. 2016. Predictability of Distributional Semantics in Derivational Word Formation. In proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), Osaka, Japan.

• Herbelot, A. and QasemiZadeh, B. 2016. You and me… in a vector space: modelling individual speakers with distributional semantics. In proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM2016), Berlin, Germany.

• Sorodoc, I., Lazaridou, A., Boleda, G., Herbelot, A., Pezzelle, S. and Bernardi, R. 2016. “Look, some green circles!”: Learning to quantify from images. In proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Vision and Language (collocated with ACL2016), Berlin, Germany.

• Herbelot, A. 2016. PeARS: a Peer-to-peer Agent for Reciprocated Search. 25th International conference for the World Wide Web, Montreal, Canada. Poster session.

• Herbelot, A. and Vecchi, E.M. 2016. Many speakers, many worlds: Interannotator variations in the quantification of feature norms. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology. 13(2):37-57.

2015

• Herbelot, A. and Vecchi, E.M. 2015. Building a shared world: mapping from distributional to model-theoretic semantics spaces. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2015). Lisbon, Portugal. Honourable mention for best paper award.

• Herbelot, A. 2015. Mr Darcy and Mr Toad, gentlemen: distributional names and their kinds. International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS2015). London, UK.

• Fischer, E., Engelhardt, P.E., and Herbelot, A. (2015): Intuitions and Illusions: From Explanation and Experiment to Assessment. In E. Fischer and J. Collins (eds.), Method, Rationalism, and Naturalism. The Impact of Experimental Philosophy. London: Routledge

2014

• Herbelot, A. The semantics of poetry: a distributional reading. Pre-print version. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 2014.

2013

• Herbelot, A. and Ganesalingam, M. Measuring semantic content in distributional vectors In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2013).

• Herbelot, A. What is in a text, what isn’t, and what this has to do with lexical semantics. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Semantics. Potsdam, Germany, March 2013.

2012

• Herbelot, A., von Redecker, E. and Müller, J. Distributional techniques for philosophical enquiry. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. EACL 2012. Avignon, France, April 2012.

2011

• Copestake, A. and Herbelot, A. Exciting and interesting: issues in the generation of binomials. In Proceedings of the UCNLG+Eval: Language Generation and Evaluation Workshop. Edinburgh, UK, July 2011. Pages 45-53.

• Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. Formalising and specifying underquantification In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Semantics. Oxford, UK, 2011.

2010

• Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. Underquantification: an application to mass terms. In Proceedings of Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language, Bochum, Germany, 2010.

• Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. Annotating Underquantification. In Proceedings of The Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV) at ACL’10, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010.

2009

• Herbelot, A. Finding Word Substitutions Using a Distributional Similarity Baseline and Immediate Context Overlap. In Proceedings of the Student Session of EACL’09, Athens, Greece, 2009.

2008

• Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. Annotating Genericity: How Do Humans Decide? (A Case Study in Ontology Extraction). In: Featherston, Sam and Winkler, Susanne (eds.) The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 1: Process. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008.

2006

• Herbelot, A. and Copestake, A. Acquiring Ontological Relationships from Wikipedia using RMRS. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Web content Mining with Human Language Technologies (ISWC), 2006.

Edited volumes

• Boleda, G. and Herbelot, A. 2016. Special Issue on Formal Distributional Semantics. Computational Linguistics. 42(4).

• Herbelot, A., Zamparelli, R. and Boleda, G. (eds.), Proceedings of the `Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics’ workshop (TFDS2013), International Conference on Computational Semantics(IWCS2013)