--- title: "Simon De Deyne — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Simon De Deyne, The University of Melbourne: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 31 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-de-deyne/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-de-deyne/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Simon De Deyne # Simon De Deyne Simon De Deyne has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Semantic parsing & meaning representation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Dirk U. Wulff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-u-wulff/), [Lea Frermann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lea-frermann/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5058212304) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7899-6210) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56600506) · [**h-index 31**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5058212304) · [154 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5058212304) · [3,737 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5058212304&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-de-deyne/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 38 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-de-deyne/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8731](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/88/#star-8731) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Simon+De+Deyne) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Simon+De+Deyne) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Simon+De+Deyne) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Simon+De+Deyne) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Melbourne** Melbourne · Australia 2017–2026 · 53 papersEmployment since 2017 · School of Psychological Sciences*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-melbourne/) · [🎓**KU Leuven** Leuven · Belgium 2002–2019 · 34 papersEmployment 2002–2008 · Phd Student, School of Psychology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ku-leuven/) · [🎓**The University of Adelaide** Adelaide · Australia 2011–2019 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-adelaide/) · [🎓**Ghent University** Ghent · Belgium 1995–2000 · 1 paperEducation 1995–2000 · Master in Psychological Sciences, Psychology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ghent-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 11 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Neuroscience · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semantic parsing & meaning representation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-de-deyne/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-de-deyne/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Compositionality and Sentence Meaning: Comparing Semantic Parsing and Transformers on a Challenging Sentence Similarity Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fodor-2025-compositionality-sentence-meaning-comparing-semantic/)** *(2025 · 22 citations)* Compositionality is the question of how people build the meaning of a sentence from the meanings of its words. 2. **[Comparing Moral Values in Western English-speaking societies and LLMs with Word Associations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiang-2025-comparing-moral-values-western-english/)** *(2025 · 3 citations)* Asking an LLM about its moral views through questionnaire items is unreliable. Its answers change with the wording of the prompt, and the questionnaires may already be in its training data. The authors take an indirect route through the model's "mental lexicon." They give Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct the same set of about… 3. **[The "Small World of Words" German Free-Association Norms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aeschbach-2026-small-world-words-german-free/)** *(2026)* German has lacked a large free-association resource, although such norms exist for English, Dutch, Spanish, Mandarin and Slovene. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Predicting human similarity judgments with distributional models: The value of word associations. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C16-1175/) Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers · no summary yet**Simon De Deyne, Amy Perfors, Daniel J Navarro*2016 · 98 citations* 2. **[Compositionality and Sentence Meaning: Comparing Semantic Parsing and Transformers on a Challenging Sentence Similarity Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fodor-2025-compositionality-sentence-meaning-comparing-semantic/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**James Fodor, Simon De Deyne, Shinsuke Suzuki*2025 · 22 citations* 3. **[Comparing Moral Values in Western English-speaking societies and LLMs with Word Associations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiang-2025-comparing-moral-values-western-english/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Chaoyi Xiang, Chunhua Liu, Simon De Deyne, et al.*2025 · 3 citations* 4. [**The "Small World of Words" German Free-Association Norms arXiv:2604.19620**Samuel Aeschbach, Rui Mata, Kaidi Loo, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aeschbach-2026-small-world-words-german-free/) ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dirk U. Wulff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-u-wulff/) - [Lea Frermann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lea-frermann/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2025/) - Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 38 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-de-deyne/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026