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Brochhagen, T., G. Boleda, E. Gualdoni, Y. Xu. 2023. From language development to language evolution: A unified view of human lexical creativity. Science, 381:431-436. [pre-print, supplementary materials, code and data]
Gualdoni, E., T. Brochhagen, A. Mädebach, G. Boleda. 2023. What's in a name? A large-scale computational study on how competition between names affects naming variation. Journal of Memory and Language, 133:104459.
He, Y., X. Liao, J. Liang, G. Boleda. 2023. The Impact of Familiarity on Naming Variation: A Study on Object Naming in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of CoNLL, 456-475. [bib]
Harrison, S., E. Gualdoni, G. Boleda. 2023. Run Like a Girl! Sport-Related Gender Bias in Language and Vision. Findings of the ACL, 14093-14103. [bib]
Gualdoni, E., C. Kemp, Y. Xu, G. Boleda. 2023. Quantifying informativeness of names in visual space. Proceedings of CogSci, 2084-2090.
Dessì, R., E. Gualdoni, F. Franzon, G. Boleda, M. Baroni. 2022. Communication breakdown: On the low mutual intelligibility between human and neural captioning. Proceedings of EMNLP 2022, 7998-8007. [bib]
Domínguez, M., M. Melero, G. Boleda. 2022. CAT ManyNames: a New Dataset for Object Naming in Catalan. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogAlex-VII), 31-36.
Brochhagen, T., G. Boleda. 2022. When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle in colexification. Cognition, 226:105179. [video, data and code]
Gualdoni, E., A. Mädebach, T. Brochhagen, G. Boleda. 2022. Woman or tennis player? Visual typicality and lexical frequency affect variation in object naming. Proceedings of CogSci 2022, 990-996. [data and code]
Mädebach, A., E. Gualdoni, E. Torubarova, G. Boleda. 2022. Effects of task and visual context on referring expressions using natural scenes. Proceedings of CogSci 2022, 3188-3194. [data and code]
Sorodoc, I., L. Aina, G. Boleda. 2022. Challenges in including extra-linguistic context in pre-trained language models. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, 134-138. [bib, data and code]
Aina, L., X. Liao, G. Boleda, M. Westera. 2021. Does referent predictability affect the choice of referential form? A computational approach using masked coreference resolution. Proceedings of CoNLL 2021, 454-469. [bib, data and code]
Sorodoc, I., G. Boleda, M. Baroni. 2021. Controlled tasks for model analysis: Retrieving discrete information from sequences. Proceedings of BlackBoxNLP 2021, 468-478. [bib]
Westera, M., A. Gupta, G. Boleda, S. Padó. 2021. Distributional models of category concepts based on names of category members. Cognitive Science 45(9):e13029. [data and code]
Silberer, C., S. Zarrieß, M. Westera, G. Boleda. 2020. Humans Meet Models on Object Naming: A New Dataset and Analysis. Proceedings of COLING 2020, 1893-1905. [bib]
Westera, M., G. Boleda. 2020. A closer look at scalar diversity using contextualized semantic similarity. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 24(2):439-454. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.908.
Aina, L., T. Brochhagen, G. Boleda. 2020. Modeling word interpretation with deep language models: The interaction between expectations and lexical information. Proceedings of CogSci 2020, 1518-1524. [data and code]
Gulordava, K., T. Brochhagen, G. Boleda. 2020. Deep daxes: Mutual exclusivity arises through both learning biases and pragmatic strategies in neural networks. Proceedings of CogSci 2020, 2089-2095.
Sorodoc, I., K. Gulordava, G. Boleda. 2020. Probing for referential information in language models. Proceedings of ACL 2020, 4177-4189. [bib, video]
Silberer, C., S. Zarrieß, G. Boleda. 2020. Object Naming in Language and Vision: A Survey and a New Dataset. Proceedings of LREC 2020, 5792‑5801. [bib]
Boleda, G. 2020. Distributional Semantics and Linguistic Theory. Annual Review of Linguistics, 6:213-23. [pre-print]
Hererra-Palacio, A. M., C. Ventura, C. Silberer, I. Sorodoc, G. Boleda, X. Giro-i-Nieto. 2019. Recurrent Instance Segmentation using Sequences of Referring Expressions. Proceedings of NeurIPS 2019 Workshops, Visually Grounded Interaction and Language (ViGIL). [supp. mat.]
Aina, L., K. Gulordava, G. Boleda. 2019. Putting words in context: LSTM language models and lexical ambiguity. Proceedings of ACL 2019 (57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), 3342-3348, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib, data and code]
Del Tredici, M., R. Fernández, G. Boleda. 2019. Short-term meaning shift: a distributional exploration. Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2019 (Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), 2069-2075, Minneapolis, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib]
Aina, L., Silberer, C., Sorodoc, I., Westera, M., Boleda, G. 2019. What do entity-centric models learn? Insights from entity linking in multi-party dialogue. Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2019 (Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), 3772-3783, Minneapolis, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib]
Westera, M., G. Boleda. 2019. Don't blame distributional semantics if it can't do entailment. Proceedings of IWCS 2019 (13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers), 120-133, Gothenburg, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib]
Gulordava, K., L. Aina, G. Boleda. 2018. How to represent a word and predict it, too: improving tied architectures for language modelling. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018), 2936-2941, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib]
Aina, L., C. Silberer, I. Sorodoc, M. Westera, G. Boleda. 2018. AMORE-UPF at SemEval-2018 Task 4: BiLSTM with Entity Library. Proceedings of SemEval 2018 (2th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation), 65-69, New Orleans, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib] Winning system in the SemEval-2018 Task 4 competition.
Gupta, A., G. Boleda, S. Padó. 2018. Instantiation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.01662.
M. Baroni, G. Boleda, S. Padó. 2018. Show me the cup: Reference with continuous representations. In Gelbukh, Alexander (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 209-224, Springer.
Boleda, G., S. Padó, N. The Pham, M. Baroni. 2017. Living a discrete life in a continuous world: Reference with distributed representations. Proceedings of IWCS 2017, Montpellier, France. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Boleda, G., A. Gupta, S. Padó. 2017. Instances and concepts in distributional space. Proceedings of EACL 2017 (15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), 79-85, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib, dataset]
Gupta, A., G. Boleda, S. Padó. 2017. Distributed Prediction of Relations for Entities: The Easy, The Difficult, and The Impossible. Proceedings of STARSEM 2017, 104-109, Vancouver, BC. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib, DOI]
McNally, L., G. Boleda. 2017. Conceptual Versus Referential Affordance in Concept Composition. In Yoad Winter & James Hampton (eds.) Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology 245-267. Springer. [DOI]
Boleda, G. and A. Herbelot. 2016 (eds.) 2016. Special Issue on Formal Distributional Semantics Computational Linguistics 42:4. MIT Press.
Boleda, G. and A. Herbelot. 2016. Formal Distributional Semantics: Introduction to the Special Issue. Computational Linguistics 42:4, 619-635. MIT Press.
Pham, N., G. Kruszewski, G. Boleda. 2016. Convolutional Neural Network Language Models. Proceedings of EMNLP 2016 (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), 1153-1162, Austin, US, November. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib]
Paperno, D., G. Kruszewski, A. Lazaridou, Q. Ngoc, R. Bernardi, S. Pezzelle, M. Baroni, G. Boleda, R. Fernandez. 2016. The LAMBADA dataset: Word prediction requiring a broad discourse context. Proceedings of ACL 2016 (54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), 1525-1534, Berlin, Germany, August. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib] Download the LAMBADA dataset.
Sorodoc, I., S. Pezzelle, A. Lazaridou, A. Herbelot, G. Boleda, R. Bernardi. 2016. Look, some green circles! Learning to quantify from images. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Vision and Language at ACL 2016, 75-79. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Gupta, A., G. Boleda, M. Baroni, S. Padó. 2015. Distributional vectors encode referential attributes. Proceedings of EMNLP 2015 (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), 12-2. Lisbon, Portugal, September. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib]
Bernardi, R., G. Boleda, R. Fernandez, D. Paperno. 2015. Distributional semantics in use. Proceedings of EMNLP 2015 Workshop LSDSem 2015: Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, 95-101. Lisbon, Portugal, September. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib]
Corral, Á., G. Boleda, R. Ferrer-i-Cancho. 2015. Zipf's Law for Word Frequencies: Word Forms versus Lemmas in Long Texts. PLoS ONE 10(7):doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129031
Palmer, M., G. Boleda, P. Rosso (eds.). 2015. Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. Denver, Colorado: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Boleda, G., K. Erk. 2015. Distributional Semantic Features as Semantic Primitives – or Not. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Integrating Symbolic and Neural Approaches. Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, 2-5. Palo Alto, California: AAAI Press. ISBN 978-1-57735-707-0. [slides]
Beltagy, I., S. Roller, G. Boleda, K. Erk, R. Mooney. 2014. UTexas: Natural Language Semantics using Distributional Semantics and Probabilistic Logic. Proceedings of SemEval 2014, 796-801, Dublin, Ireland, August 23-24 2014. [paper]
Roller, S., K. Erk, G. Boleda. 2014. Inclusive yet Selective: Supervised Distributional Hypernymy Detection. Proceedings of CoLing 2014, Dublin, Ireland, 1025-1036. [paper]
Arsenijevic, B., B. Gehrke, G. Boleda, L. McNally. 2014. Ethnic adjectives are proper adjectives. In R. Baglini, T. Grinsell, J. Keane, A. R. Singerman, J. Thomas (eds.), CLS 46-I The Main Session: Proceedings of 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, USA, 17-30. [PDF (preprint))
Font-Clos, F., G. Boleda, A. Corral. 2013. A scaling law beyond Zipf's law and its relation to Heaps' law. New Journal of Physics 15:9, 093033. [paper, bib, article page]
Beltagy, I., C. K. Cuong, G. Boleda, D. Garrette, K. Erk, R. Mooney. 2013. Montague meets Markov: Deep semantics with probabilistic logical form. Proceedings of *SEM 2013. Atlanta, US. [paper]
Herbelot, A. and Zamparelli, R. and Boleda, G. (eds.) 2013. Proceedings of the IWCS 2013 Workshop Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics. Association for Computational Linguistics. [book, bib]
Boleda, G., M. Baroni, N. The Pham, L. McNally. 2013. Intensionality was only alleged: On adjective-noun composition in distributional semantics. Proceedings of IWCS 2013, Potsdam, Germany, 35-46. [paper, slides, data, bib]
Boleda, G., S. Schulte im Walde, T. Badia. 2012. Modeling regular polysemy: A study of the semantic classification of Catalan adjectives. Computational Linguistics 38:3, 575-616. [paper, journal page, data, bib]
Boleda, G., E. M. Vecchi, M. Cornudella, L. McNally. 2012. First-order vs. higher-order modification in distributional semantics. Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2012, 1223--1233, Jeju Island, Korea. [paper, slides, data, bib]
Bruni, E., G. Boleda, M. Baroni, N. K. Tran. 2012. Distributional semantics in technicolor. Proceedings of ACL 2012, 136-145, Jeju Island, Korea. [paper, slides, data, bib]
Boleda, G., S. Padó, J. Utt. 2012.
Regular polysemy: a distributional model. First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), 151–160, Montréal, Canada. [paper, slides, data, bib]
Boleda, G., S. Evert, B. Gehrke, L. McNally. 2012. Adjectives as saturators vs. modifiers: Statistical evidence. In Maria Aloni, Vadim Kimmelman, Floris Roelofsen, Galit Weidman Sassoon, Katrin Schulz, Matthijs Westera (Eds.): Logic, Language and Meaning - 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7218, 112-121. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-31481-0. [paper, preprint, bib]
Sánchez Marco, C., G. Boleda, J. M. Fontana. 2012. Propuesta de codificación de la información paleográfica y lingüística para textos diacrónicos del español. Uso del estándar TEI. In Torrens Álvarez, María Jesús y Sánchez-Prieto Borja, Pedro (eds.), Nuevas perspectivas para la edición y el estudio de documentos antiguos, 447-463. Fondo Hispánico de Lingüística y Filología. Vol. 12. Bern (etc.): Peter Lang. ISSN 1663-2648. [paper]
Sánchez Marco, C., G. Boleda, L. Padró. 2011. Extending the tool, or how to annotate historical language varieties. Proceedings of the 5th ACL-HLT Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2011, 1--9. [paper, bib]
Melero, M., G. Boleda, M. Cuadros, C. España-Bonet, L. Padró, M. Quixal, C. Rodríguez. 2010. Language technology challenges of a 'small' language (Catalan). Proceedings of LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta. ISBN 2-9517408-6-7. [PDF]
Peris, A., M. Taulé, G. Boleda, Horacio Rodríguez. 2010. ADN-classifier: Automatically assigning denotation types to nominalizations. Proceedings of LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta. ISBN 2-9517408-6-7. [PDF]
Samuel Reese, G. Boleda, Montse Cuadros, Lluís Padró, German Rigau. 2010. Wikicorpus: A word-sense disambiguated multilingual Wikipedia corpus. Proceedings of LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta. ISBN 2-9517408-6-7. [PDF]
Cristina Sánchez-Marco, G. Boleda, J. M. Fontana, J. Domingo. Annotation and representation of a diachronic corpus of Spanish. Proceedings of LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta. ISBN 2-9517408-6-7. [PDF]
Sanromà, R., G. Boleda. 2010. The Database of Catalan Adjectives. Proceedings of LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta. ISBN 2-9517408-6-7. [PDF] [data]
Corral, A., R. Ferrer i Cancho, G. Boleda, A. Diaz-Guilera. 2009. Universal Complex Structures in Written Language. Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2924.
Boleda, G., M. Cuadros, C. España-Bonet, M. Melero, L. Padró, M. Quixal, C. Rodríguez. 2009. Primera Jornada del Procesamiento Computacional del Catalán. Revista de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 43: 387-388. ISSN: 1135-5948. [PDF]
Boleda, G., M. Cuadros, C. España-Bonet, M. Melero, L. Padró, M. Quixal, C. Rodríguez. 2009. El català i les tecnologies de la llengua. Llengua, Societat i Comunicació 7: 20-26. ISSN: 1697 5928. [PDF]
Boleda, G., M. Cuadros, C. España-Bonet, M. Melero, L. Padró, M. Quixal, C. Rodríguez. 2009. Sobre la I Jornada del Processament Computacional del Català. Llengua i ús 45: 23-32. ISSN: 1134-7724. [PDF]
Artstein, R., G. Boleda, F. Keller, S. Schulte im Walde (eds). 2008. Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Human Judgements in Computational Linguistics. Manchester, UK: Coling 2008 Organizing Committee. ISBN 978-1-905593-49-1. [URL]
Boleda, G., S. Schulte im Walde, T. Badia. 2008. An Analysis of Human Judgements on Semantic Classification of Catalan Adjectives. Research on Language and Computation 6(3): 247-271, Special Issue on Ambiguity and Semantic Judgements. ISSN 1570-7075. [doi, PDF] (preprint).
Boleda, G. 2008. Emulant els infants: induint propietats lingüístiques a partir de dades empíriques. Revista de Catalunya, 235, 33-40. ISSN 0213-5876. [PDF] (preprint)
Vandeghinste, V., P. Dirix, I. Schuurman, S. Markantonatou, S. Sofianopoulos, M. Vassiliou, O. Yannoutsou, T. Badia, M. Melero, G. Boleda, M. Carl, P. Schmidt. 2008. Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages: METIS-II. Proceedings of LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco. ISBN 2-9517408-4-0.
Boleda, G., T. Badia. 2008. CUCWEB: un corpus de la llengua catalana construït a partir de la web. Estudis romànics 30:291-293. Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
Boleda, G., S. Schulte im Walde, T. Badia. 2007. Modelling Polysemy in Adjective Classes by Multi-Label Classification. Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), 171-180. [PDF, BIB]
Boleda, G.. 2007. Automatic acquisition of semantic classes for adjectives. Ph.D. thesis, Pompeu Fabra University. [PDF]
Boleda, G., S. Bott, C. Castillo, R. Meza, T. Badia, V. López. 2006. CUCWeb: a Catalan corpus built from the Web. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on the Web as a Corpus at EACL'06, 19-26, Trento, Italy, April 2006. [BIB, PDF]
Badia, T., G. Boleda, M. Melero, A. Oliver. 2005. El proyecto METIS-II. Revista de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. ISSN 1135-5948, 35, 443-444. [PDF]
Oliver, A., T. Badia, G. Boleda, M. Melero. 2005. Traducción automática estadística basada en n-gramas. Revista de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. ISSN 1135-5948, 35, 77-84. [PDF]
Badia, T., G. Boleda, M. Melero, A. Oliver An n-gram approach to exploiting a monolingual corpus for Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Example-based Machine Translation, MT Summit X, Phuket, Thailand, 16 September 2005. [PDF]
Boleda, G., T. Badia, S. Schulte im Walde. 2005. Morphology vs. Syntax in Adjective Class Acquisition. Proceedings of the ACL-SIGLEX 2005 Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition, June 30, Ann Arbor, USA. [PDF]
Mayol, L., G. Boleda, T. Badia. 2005. Automatic acquisition of syntactic verb classes with basic resources. Language Resources and Evaluation, 39(4):295-312 [PDF (preprint)]
Mayol, L., G. Boleda, T. Badia. 2005. Automatic learning of syntactic verb classes. Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes, 92-97, Feb 28th-March 1st, Saarbrücken, Germany. [PS]
Boleda, G., S. Bott, B. Poblete, C. Castillo, M.E. Fuenmayor, T. Badia, V. López. 2004. CuCWeb: un corpus del català construït a partir de la web. II Congrés Online de l'Observatori per a la Cibersocietat, Barcelona, Spain. [HTML]
McNally, L. and G. Boleda. 2004. Relational adjectives as properties of kinds. In Olivier Bonami and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.) Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 5, 179-196 [Abstract, PDF, BIB]
Boleda, G., T. Badia and Eloi Batlle. 2004. Acquisition of Semantic Classes for Adjectives from Distributional Evidence. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), 1119-1125, Geneva, Switzerland. ISBN:1-932 432-48-5 [PDF]
Pado, S., G. Boleda. 2004. The Influence of Argument Structure on Semantic Role Assignment. Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-04), 103-110, July 25-26, Barcelona, Spain. ISBN: 1-932432-36-1
Aguilar, L., À. Alsina, A. Avilés, T. Badia, S. Balari, G. Boleda, S. Bott, J. Brumme, C. Colominas, A. Espunya, J. Fontana, J. Fontseca, À. Gil, C. Hernández, L. Mayol, L. McNally, C. de la Mota, M. Quixal, Y. Rodríguez, O. Valentín, E. Vallduví, T. Vallverdú. 2004. PrADo: Preparación Automatizada de Documentos (TIC 2000-1681). Technical report. [PDF (2,5MB)]
Pado, S., G. Boleda. 2003. Towards Better Understanding of Automatic Semantic Role Assignment. Proceedings of Prospects and Advances in the Syntax/Semantics Interface, Nancy, France. [PDF, BIB]
Boleda, G., L. Alonso. 2003. Clustering Adjectives for Class Acquisition. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2003) Student Research Workshop, 9-16, Budapest, Hungary. ISBN: 1-932432-01-9 [PDF]
Alsina, À., T. Badia, G. Boleda, S. Bott, À. Gil, M. Quixal, O. Valentín. 2002. CATCG: a general purpose parsing tool applied. Proceedings of Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas, Spain, Vol. III, 1130-1135. ISBN: 2-9517408-0-8 [PDF, BIB]
Alsina, À., T. Badia, G. Boleda, S. Bott, À. Gil, M. Quixal, O. Valentín. 2002. CATCG: un sistema de análisis morfosintáctico para el catalán. Revista de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 29, Sept. 2002, 309-310. ISSN: 1135-5948 [RTF]
Badia, T., G. Boleda, J. Brumme, C. Colominas, M. Garmendia, M. Quixal. 2002. BancTrad: un banco de corpus anotados con interficie web. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 29, septiembre 2002, 293-294. ISSN: 1135-5948 ( RTF]
Badia, T., G. Boleda, C. Colominas, M. Garmendia, A. González, M. Quixal. 2002. BancTrad: a web interface for integrated access to parallel annotated corpora. Proceedings of the First International Workshop On Language Resources For Translation Work And Research held during the 3rd LREC Conference (LREC 2002), Las Palmas, Spain, 28 May 2002. [PDF, BIB]
Badia, T., G. Boleda, C. Colominas, M. Garmendia, A. González, M. Quixal. 2002. Eines de lingüística computacional per a la traducció: corpus paral·lels anotats. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Specialized Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 129-137. ISBN: 84-477-0820-9 (DOC]
Badia, T., G. Boleda, M. Quixal. 2001. Curso sobre Tecnologías de la lengua (segunda edición). QUARK, Ciencia, Medicina, Comunicación y Cultura, 21, Jul - Sept. 2001. 14-16. ISSN: 1135-8521
Badia, T., G. Boleda, M. Quixal, Eva Bofias. 2001. A modular architecture for the processing of free text. Proceedings of the Workshop on Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing at EUROLAN 2001, Iasi, Romania, August 2001. 11-18 [PDF, BIB]