Contact

Email

simon.dedeyne@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials

Position
Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
Education
Doctorate
KU Leuven
Doctoral Degree (Research) / PhD
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Postgraduate Diploma
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Masters Degree
Ghent University
ORCID

0000-0002-7899-6210

Dr Simon De Deyne

Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
94 Scholarly works
2 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Core Vocabulary Reveals Differences Between Human Word Prediction and Large Language Models
    DOI: 10.1525/collabra.160142
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Core Vocabulary in Language Representation and Processing
    DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70151
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Compositionality and Sentence Meaning: Comparing Semantic Parsing and Transformers on a Challenging Sentence Similarity Dataset
    DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00536
  • 2020

    Research Contracts

    AI for Decision Making - Virtual Imagination - Research Problem 14: Document Corpus Analysis
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    A Computational Network Model of the Mental Lexicon (Transfer In)
  • 2016

    Journal article

    Structure at every scale: A semantic network account of the similarities between unrelated concepts
    DOI: 10.1037/xge0000192
  • 2016

    Conference Proceedings

    Predicting human similarity judgments with distributional models: The value of word associations
Simon De Deyne

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships

2022
Pioneer Award KU LEuven Humanities and Social Sciences Group
2019
2019 COLING Best Paper Award COLING-2016 Program Committee
2019
2019 Best Article Award Psychonomic Society
2017
Distinguished Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (DistFRSN)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS