Thomas Kober

Selected publications

Article

Weir, David, Reffin, Jeremy, Weeds, Julie and Kober, Thomas (2016) Aligning packed dependency trees: a theory of composition for distributional semantics. Computational Linguistics, 42 (4). pp. 727-761. ISSN 0891-2017

Book Section

Kober, Thomas, Weeds, Julie, Reffin, Jeremy and Weir, David (2016) Improving sparse word representations with distributional inference for semantic composition. In: Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1691-1702. ISBN 9781945626258

Conference or Workshop Item

Kober, Thomas and Weir, David (2015) Optimising agile social media analysis. In: 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015), 17th September 2015, Lisbon.

Conference Proceedings

Kober, Thomas, Weeds, Julie, Wilkie, John, Reffin, Jeremy and Weir, David (2017) One representation per word - does it make sense for composition? Published in: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Sense, Concept and Entity Representations and their Applications [Valencia, Spain, 3rd-7th April 2017]. 79-90. Association for Computational Linguistics

Weeds, Julie, Kober, Thomas, Reffin, Jeremy and Weir, David (2017) When a red herring is not a red herring: using compositional methods to detect non-compositional phrases. Published in: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics [Valencia, Spain, April 3-7, 2017]: Volume 2, Short Papers. 529-534. ISBN 9781945626357

Batchkarov, Miroslav, Kober, Thomas, Reffin, Jeremy, Weeds, Julie and Weir, David (2016) A critique of word similarity as a method for evaluating distributional semantic models. The 1st Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP, Berlin, 12th August 2016. Published in: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Evaluating Vector-Space Representations for NLP. 7-12. Association for Computational Linguistics, Berlin, Germany.

Thesis

Kober, Thomas Helmut (2018) Inferring unobserved co-occurrence events in Anchored Packed Trees. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Sussex.