Birkbeck Word Association Norms

Author : Helen Moss,Lianne Older
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0863774040

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Birkbeck Word Association Norms by Helen Moss,Lianne Older Pdf

This is a reference work containing free association norms for over 2000 words in the English language collected over the last eight years from groups of 40-50 British English speakers aged between 17 and 45. These norms provide the information that, for example, 67% of people give dog as the first word they think of in response to the word cat, that 24% give the word society in response to the word pillar, and given the name Michael, 65% say Jackson, whereas less than 5% say Heseltine or Caine. These norms will be of use to researchers and students in many fields of psychology, especially language and memory, where the degree of association between pairs of words is often an important experimental variable. The main part of the book contains an alphabetical list of all associative responses and their frequency for each of the 2464 stimulus words. In addition, there is an index of stimulus words organised according to semantic category to aid selection of experimental materials. Full methodological details of the collection and compilation of the data are also provided in the introduction.

Author : Oi Yee Kwong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461413202

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New Perspectives on Computational and Cognitive Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation by Oi Yee Kwong Pdf

Cognitive and Computational Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation examines cognitive strategies by humans and computational strategies by machines, for WSD in parallel. Focusing on a psychologically valid property of words and senses, author Oi Yee Kwong discusses their concreteness or abstractness and draws on psycholinguistic data to examine the extent to which existing lexical resources resemble the mental lexicon as far as the concreteness distinction is concerned. The text also investigates the contribution of different knowledge sources to WSD in relation to this very intrinsic nature of words and senses.

Author : Bernadette Sharp,Florence Sedes,Wieslaw Lubaszewski
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780081023433

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Cognitive Approach to Natural Language Processing by Bernadette Sharp,Florence Sedes,Wieslaw Lubaszewski Pdf

As natural language processing spans many different disciplines, it is sometimes difficult to understand the contributions and the challenges that each of them presents. This book explores the special relationship between natural language processing and cognitive science, and the contribution of computer science to these two fields. It is based on the recent research papers submitted at the international workshops of Natural Language and Cognitive Science (NLPCS) which was launched in 2004 in an effort to bring together natural language researchers, computer scientists, and cognitive and linguistic scientists to collaborate together and advance research in natural language processing. The chapters cover areas related to language understanding, language generation, word association, word sense disambiguation, word predictability, text production and authorship attribution. This book will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary nature of language processing. Discusses the problems and issues that researchers face, providing an opportunity for developers of NLP systems to learn from cognitive scientists, cognitive linguistics and neurolinguistics Provides a valuable opportunity to link the study of natural language processing to the understanding of the cognitive processes of the brain

Author : Svetlana Vetchinnikova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108499804

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Phraseology and the Advanced Language Learner by Svetlana Vetchinnikova Pdf

Explores the process of word selection in second language use and the factors which determine the writer's choice of words.

Author : Palermo
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Association of ideas
ISBN : 0816603154

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Word Association Norms by Palermo Pdf

Author : Palermo
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Association of ideas
ISBN : 9781452912073

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Word Association Norms by Palermo Pdf

Author : Gerry T. M. Altmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : 0863779751

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Cognitive Models of Speech Processing by Gerry T. M. Altmann Pdf

This collection of papers and abstracts stems from the third meeting in the series of Sperlonga workshops on Cognitive Models of Speech Processing. It presents current research on the structure and organization of the mental lexicon, and on the processes that access that lexicon. The volume starts with discussion of issues in acquisition and consideration of questions such as, 'What is the relationship between vocabulary growth and the acquisition of syntax?', and, 'How does prosodic information, concerning the melodies and rhythms of the language, influence the processes of lexical and syntactic acquisition?'. From acquisition, the papers move on to consider the manner in which contemporary models of spoken word recognition and production can map onto neural models of the recognition and production processes. The issue of exactly what is recognised, and when, is dealt with next - the empirical findings suggest that the function of something to which a word refers is accessed with a different time-course to the form of that something. This has considerable implications for the nature, and content, of lexical representations. Equally important are the findings from the studies of disordered lexical processing, and two papers in this volume address the implications of these disorders for models of lexical representation and process (borrowing from both empirical data and computational modelling). The final paper explores whether neural networks can successfully model certain lexical phenomena that have elsewhere been assumed to require rule-based processes.

Author : Rosaleen A. McCarthy
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0863779360

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Semantic Knowledge and Semantic Representations by Rosaleen A. McCarthy Pdf

What is the basis of our ability to assign meanings to words or to objects? Such questions have, until recently, been regarded as lying within the province of philosophy and linguistics rather than psychology. However, recent advances in psychology and neuropsychology have led to the development of a scientific approach to analysing the cognitive bases of semantic knowledge and semantic representations. Indeed, theory and data on the organisation and structure of semantic knowledge have now become central and hotly debated topics in contemporary psychology. This special issue of Memory brings together a series of papers from established laboratories that are at the forefront of semantic memory research. The collection includes papers presenting theoretical overviews of the field as well as papers containing new experimental findings. A variety of approaches to the problems of analysing semantic knowledge and semantic representations are included in this volume. For example, experimental studies of normal subjects are included together with neuropsychological investigations of patients with impaired semantic memory and computational models of the representation of knowledge in normality and disease. This collection will therefore be essential reading for researchers and others who are interested in memory function. It will also be of interest to cognitive scientists, linguists, philosophers and others who have puzzled over the many complex and central questions that probe the roots of our ability to understand meaning.

Author : Clare Wright,Thorsten Piske,Martha Young-Scholten
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788921633

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Mind Matters in SLA by Clare Wright,Thorsten Piske,Martha Young-Scholten Pdf

This book examines key issues in theories of what language is and what happens in the mind during second language acquisition (SLA), inspiring readers to think in new and exciting ways about language learning and teaching. Chapters, written by both established and rising star scholars, provide cutting-edge insights and new empirical findings on major topics of formal and cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and second language development, and offer a coherent, wide-ranging, reader-friendly examination of learner-internal factors in SLA. The first section of the book focuses on issues that are pertinent to our understanding of language acquisition, particularly in relation to syntax. The second section comprises empirical chapters on syntax, the lexicon, phonetics/phonology and language production in English and other languages. These chapters refer to theories and frameworks from within SLA to enable the reader to grasp the key questions and issues that are currently relevant. The final section focuses on research relating to how second language (L2) learners make transitions from one stage of development to the next; it covers state-of-the-art psycholinguistic research concerning how L2 acquisition occurs in real time, and includes discussion of models of L2 development both in and out of the classroom.

Author : Takenobu Tokunaga,Antonio Ortega
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540781585

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Large-Scale Knowledge Resources. Construction and Application by Takenobu Tokunaga,Antonio Ortega Pdf

Atthestartofthe21stcentury,wearenowwellonthewaytowardsaknowled- intensive society, in which knowledge plays ever more important roles. Thus, research interest should inevitably shift from information to knowledge, with the problems of building, organizing, maintaining and utilizing knowledge - coming centralissues in a wide varietyof ?elds. The 21stCentury COE program “Framework for Systematization and Application of Large-scale Knowledge - sources (COE-LKR)” conducted by the Tokyo Institute of Technology is one of several early attempts worldwide to address these important issues. Inspired by this project, LKR2008 aimed at bringing together diverse contributions in cognitive science, computer science, education and linguistics to explore design, construction, extension, maintenance, validation and application of knowledge. Respondingtoourcallforpapers,wereceived38submissionfromavarietyof researchareas.EachpaperwasreviewedbythreeProgramCommitteemembers. Since we were aiming at an interdisciplinary conference covering a wide range of topics concerning large-scale knowledge resources (LKR), each paper was assigned a reviewer from a topic area outside the main thrust of the paper. This reviewer was asked to assess whether the authors described the moti- tion and importance of their work in a comprehensible manner even for readers in other research areas. Following a rigorous reviewing process, we accepted 14 regular papers and 12 poster papers.

Author : Susan F. Chipman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199842193

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The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science by Susan F. Chipman Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science emphasizes the research and theory most central to modern cognitive science: computational theories of complex human cognition. Additional facets of cognitive science are discussed in the handbook's introductory chapter.

Author : John R. Taylor
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199641604

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The Oxford Handbook of the Word by John R. Taylor Pdf

The word is central to both naive and expert theories of language. Yet the definition of 'word' remains problematic. The 42 chapters of this Handbook offer a variety of perspectives on this most basic and elusive of linguistic units.

Author : Gerry T. M. Altmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psycholinguistics
ISBN : 0415229928

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Psycholinguistics by Gerry T. M. Altmann Pdf

Author : Simon Garrod,Martin Pickering
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317715375

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Language Processing by Simon Garrod,Martin Pickering Pdf

Language Processing questions what happens when we process language - what mental operations occur during processing and how they are organised over time. The last decade has seen real advances in the study of language processing that have wide ranging implications for human cognition in general. Language Processing gives an account of these developments both as they relate to experimental studies of processing and as they relate to computational modelling of the processes. In addition to chapters covering core topics, such as lexical processing, syntactic parsing and the comprehension of discourse, special topics of recent interest are also included.

Author : Glyn W. Humphreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317496076

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Attention, Perception and Action by Glyn W. Humphreys Pdf

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. Glyn Humphreys is an internationally renowned cognitive neuropsychologist with research interests covering object recognition and its disorders, visual word recognition, object and spatial attention, the effects of action on cognition, and social cognition. Within the field of Psychology he has won a number of prestigious awards, including the Spearman Medal, the President’s Award of the British Psychological Society, and the Donald Broadbent Prize from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. This collection reflects the different directions in his work and approaches which have been adopted. It will enable the reader to trace key developments in cognitive neuropsychology in a period of rapid change over the last thirty years. A newly written introduction contextualises the selection in relation to changes in the field during this time. Attention, Perception and Action will be invaluable reading for students and researchers in visual cognition, cognitive neuropsychology and vision neuroscience.