semantic representation

Communicative efficiency of distributional and semantically-based core vocabularies in narrative text comprehension

High-frequency words are often assumed to be the most useful words for communication, as they provide the greatest coverage of texts. However, the relationship between coverage and comprehension may not be straightforward; how words relate …

Who likes what? Comparing personal preferences with group predictions based on gender and extraversion across common semantic domains

Some people like coffee while others prefer tea, but little is known about whether preferences like these are shared among groups and whether they vary systematically across many common semantic categories. This study addresses this gap by examining …