🧑‍🔬 Simon De Deyne

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓The University of MelbourneMelbourne · Australia2017–2026 · 53 papersEmployment since 2017 · School of Psychological Sciencescurrent🎓KU LeuvenLeuven · Belgium2002–2019 · 34 papersEmployment 2002–2008 · Phd Student, School of Psychology🎓The University of AdelaideAdelaide · Australia2011–2019 · 16 papers🎓Ghent UniversityGhent · Belgium1995–2000 · 1 paperEducation 1995–2000 · Master in Psychological Sciences, Psychology

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.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 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 (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 (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 (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. ↗Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers · no summary yetSimon De Deyne, Amy Perfors, Daniel J Navarro2016 · 98 citations
2. Compositionality and Sentence Meaning: Comparing Semantic Parsing and Transformers on a Challenging Sentence Similarity DatasetComputational LinguisticsJames Fodor, Simon De Deyne, Shinsuke Suzuki2025 · 22 citations
3. Comparing Moral Values in Western English-speaking societies and LLMs with Word AssociationsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Chaoyi Xiang, Chunhua Liu, Simon De Deyne, et al.2025 · 3 citations
4. The "Small World of Words" German Free-Association NormsarXiv:2604.19620Samuel Aeschbach, Rui Mata, Kaidi Loo, et al.2026

🤝 Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Dirk U. Wulff
• 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): ACL 2025
• Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguistics 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 →.

Updated 1 November 2026

↑ back to top

This page in Markdown → https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-de-deyne/