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# Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP 2016 — accepted papers

Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP 2016 is the 2016 edition of the Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP, held in Berlin, Germany, August 2016 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 26 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Berlin, [Germany](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/germany/) · 🗓 August 2016

[**26** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-evaluating-vector-space-representations-for-nlp/2016/#works) · [**553** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-evaluating-vector-space-representations-for-nlp/2016/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Problems With Evaluation of Word Embeddings Using Word Similarity Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/faruqui-2016-problems-evaluation-word-embeddings-word/)**Manaal Faruqui, Yulia Tsvetkov, Pushpendre Rastogi et al.*246 citations · our summary*
2. **[Issues in evaluating semantic spaces using word analogies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2503/)**Tal Linzen*138 citations*
3. **[Probing for semantic evidence of composition by means of simple classification tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ettinger-2016-probing-semantic-evidence-composition-means/)**Allyson Ettinger, Ahmed Elgohary, Philip Resnik*129 citations · our summary*
4. **[Intrinsic Evaluation of Word Vectors Fails to Predict Extrinsic Performance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2501/)**Billy Chiu, Anna Korhonen, Sampo Pyysalo*94 citations*
5. **[Intrinsic Evaluations of Word Embeddings: What Can We Do Better? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2507/)**Anna Gladkova, Aleksandr Drozd*86 citations*
6. **[A critique of word similarity as a method for evaluating distributional semantic models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2502/)**Miroslav Batchkarov, Thomas Kober, Jeremy Reffin et al.*58 citations*
7. **[Evaluating Word Embeddings Using a Representative Suite of Practical Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2504/)**Neha Nayak Kennard, Gabor Angeli, Christopher D. Manning*54 citations*
8. **[Evaluating word embeddings with fMRI and eye-tracking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2521/)**Anders Søgaard*48 citations*
9. **[Story Cloze Evaluator: Vector Space Representation Evaluation by Predicting What Happens Next ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2505/)**Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Lucy Vanderwende, Wen-tau Yih et al.*44 citations*
10. **[Find the word that does not belong: A Framework for an Intrinsic Evaluation of Word Vector Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2508/)**José Camacho-Collados, Roberto Navigli*43 citations*

## All accepted papers (26)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Problems With Evaluation of Word Embeddings Using Word Similarity Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/faruqui-2016-problems-evaluation-word-embeddings-word/)**Manaal Faruqui, Yulia Tsvetkov, Pushpendre Rastogi et al.*246 citations · our summary*
2. **[Issues in evaluating semantic spaces using word analogies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2503/)**Tal Linzen*138 citations*
3. **[Probing for semantic evidence of composition by means of simple classification tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ettinger-2016-probing-semantic-evidence-composition-means/)**Allyson Ettinger, Ahmed Elgohary, Philip Resnik*129 citations · our summary*
4. **[Intrinsic Evaluation of Word Vectors Fails to Predict Extrinsic Performance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2501/)**Billy Chiu, Anna Korhonen, Sampo Pyysalo*94 citations*
5. **[Intrinsic Evaluations of Word Embeddings: What Can We Do Better? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2507/)**Anna Gladkova, Aleksandr Drozd*86 citations*
6. **[A critique of word similarity as a method for evaluating distributional semantic models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2502/)**Miroslav Batchkarov, Thomas Kober, Jeremy Reffin et al.*58 citations*
7. **[Evaluating Word Embeddings Using a Representative Suite of Practical Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2504/)**Neha Nayak Kennard, Gabor Angeli, Christopher D. Manning*54 citations*
8. **[Evaluating word embeddings with fMRI and eye-tracking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2521/)**Anders Søgaard*48 citations*
9. **[Story Cloze Evaluator: Vector Space Representation Evaluation by Predicting What Happens Next ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2505/)**Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Lucy Vanderwende, Wen-tau Yih et al.*44 citations*
10. **[Find the word that does not belong: A Framework for an Intrinsic Evaluation of Word Vector Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2508/)**José Camacho-Collados, Roberto Navigli*43 citations*
11. **[Correlation-based Intrinsic Evaluation of Word Vector Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2520/)**Yulia Tsvetkov, Manaal Faruqui, Chris Dyer*24 citations*
12. **[Thematic fit evaluation: an aspect of selectional preferences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2518/)**Asad Sayeed, Clayton Greenberg, Vera Demberg*22 citations*
13. **[Evaluating vector space models using human semantic priming results ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2513/)**Allyson Ettinger, Tal Linzen*17 citations*
14. **[Improving Reliability of Word Similarity Evaluation by Redesigning Annotation Task and Performance Measure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2519/)**Oded Avraham, Yoav Goldberg*17 citations*
15. **[Capturing Discriminative Attributes in a Distributional Space: Task Proposal ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2509/)**Alicia Krebs, Denis Paperno*16 citations*
16. **[Evaluating Embeddings using Syntax-based Classification Tasks as a Proxy for Parser Performance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2512/)**Arne Köhn*11 citations*
17. **[Evaluation of acoustic word embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2511/)**Sahar Ghannay, Yannick Estève, Nathalie Camelin et al.*10 citations*
18. **[An Improved Crowdsourcing Based Evaluation Technique for Word Embedding Methods ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2510/)**Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Marek Grześ*8 citations*
19. **[Evaluating embeddings on dictionary-based similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2514/)**Judit Ács, András Kornai*4 citations*
20. **[Evaluating multi-sense embeddings for semantic resolution monolingually and in word translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2515/)**Gábor Borbély, Márton Makrai, Dávid Márk Nemeskey et al.*4 citations*
21. **[Defining Words with Words: Beyond the Distributional Hypothesis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2522/)**Iuliana-Elena Parasca, Andreas Lukas Rauter, Jack Roper et al.*3 citations*
22. **[Evaluating Informal-Domain Word Representations With UrbanDictionary ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2517/)**Naomi Saphra, Adam Lopez*2 citations*
23. **[Sentence Embedding Evaluation Using Pyramid Annotation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2526/)**Tal Baumel, Raphael Cohen, Michael Elhadad*2 citations*
24. **[A Proposal for Linguistic Similarity Datasets Based on Commonality Lists ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2523/)**Dmitrijs Milajevs, Sascha Griffiths
25. **[SLEDDED: A Proposed Dataset of Event Descriptions for Evaluating Phrase Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-2525/)**Laura Rimell, Eva Maria Vecchi

[See all 26 papers in Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP 2016 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-evaluating-vector-space-representations-for-nlp/2016/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Problems With Evaluation of Word Embeddings Using Word Similarity Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/faruqui-2016-problems-evaluation-word-embeddings-word/) [Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-evaluating-vector-space-representations-for-nlp/)**Manaal Faruqui, Yulia Tsvetkov, Pushpendre Rastogi, et al.*2016 · 334 citations*
2. **[Probing for semantic evidence of composition by means of simple classification tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ettinger-2016-probing-semantic-evidence-composition-means/) [Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-evaluating-vector-space-representations-for-nlp/)**Allyson Ettinger, Ahmed Elgohary, Philip Resnik*2016 · 219 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Chris Dyer**1 work here · 334 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-dyer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Manaal Faruqui**1 work here · 334 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manaal-faruqui/) · [🧑‍🔬**Pushpendre Rastogi**1 work here · 334 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pushpendre-rastogi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yulia Tsvetkov**1 work here · 334 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yulia-tsvetkov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ahmed Elgohary**1 work here · 219 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-elgohary/) · [🧑‍🔬**Allyson Ettinger**1 work here · 219 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allyson-ettinger/) · [🧑‍🔬**Philip Resnik**1 work here · 219 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philip-resnik/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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