{"id":77,"date":"2018-03-05T20:33:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T20:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dev.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2018-03-08T22:46:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T22:46:57","slug":"computational-approaches-to-semantic-association","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/computational-approaches-to-semantic-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Semantic Associations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Typically, semantic associations facilitate both production and comprehension processes. But where do these effects stem from? Are semantic association effects underpinned by lexical co-occurrence, semantic networks, or both? How much do free semantic norms correspond to co-occurrence in speech? To answer this question, I used corpora and statistical grammars developed by computational linguists to evaluate the link between co-occurrence and semantic association. Together with Sabine Schulte im Walde (Stuttgart University)<\/a>, we have \"\"evaluated a) the types of semantic relations reflected by semantic associations, as supported by lexical ontologies, and b) the correlation between association strength and target-associate co-occurrence frequencies in corpora. We also assembled the NAG (Noun Associations in German) database<\/a>, which is free for use by all.<\/p>\n

Relevant publications:<\/h1>\n

Schulte im Walde, S., & Melinger, A.<\/strong> (2008). An in-depth look into the co-occurrence distribution of semantic associates. Journal of Italian Linguistics<\/em>. 20(1), 89-128. Special Issue on From Context to Meaning: Distributional Models of the Lexicon in Linguistics and Cognitive Science<\/em>. http:\/\/linguistica.sns.it\/RdL\/20.1\/Walde_Melinger.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Schulte im Walde, S., Melinger, A.<\/strong>, Roth, M., & Weber, A. (2008). An Empirical Characterisation of Response Types in German Association Norms.\u00a0 Research on Language and Computation, 6<\/em>(2), 205-238. doi: 10.1007\/s11168-008-9048-4<\/a><\/p>\n

Schulte im Walde, S., Melinger, A.<\/strong>, Roth, M., & Weber, A. (2007). Which distributional functions are crucial to word meaning: an investigation of semantic associates. Proceedings of the GLDV (Gesellschaft <\/em>f\u00fcr linguistische Datenverarbeitung) workshop on Lexical Semantics and Ontological Resources<\/em>, 336<\/em>, 333-343. http:\/\/www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de\/institut\/mitarbeiter\/schulte\/publications\/workshop\/gldv-07.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Melinger, A.<\/strong>, Schulte im Walde, & Weber, A. (2006). Characterizing response types and revealing noun ambiguity in German association norms. Proceedings of the 11th<\/sup> Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics<\/em>, Trento, Italy. http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/11858\/00-001M-0000-0013-2EC6-E<\/a><\/p>\n

Schulte im Walde, S. & Melinger, A.<\/strong> (2005). Identifying semantic relations and functional properties of human verb associations. Proceedings of the joint Conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, <\/em>p.<\/em> 612-619. Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Doi: 10.3115\/1220575.1220652<\/a><\/p>\n

Melinger, A.<\/strong> & Schulte im Walde, S. (2005). Evaluating the relationships instantiated by semantic associates of verbs. Proceedings of the 27th<\/sup> Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, <\/em>p. 1489-1494, Italy. https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/90z7r5nm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Typically, semantic associations facilitate both production and comprehension processes. But where do these effects stem from? Are semantic association effects underpinned by lexical co-occurrence, semantic networks, or both? How much do free semantic norms correspond to co-occurrence in speech? To answer this question, I used corpora and statistical grammars developed by computational linguists to evaluate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}