semantics

Common words, uncommon meanings: Evidence for widespread gender differences in word meaning

Communication relies on a shared understanding of word meaning; however, recent evidence suggests that individual variation in meaning exists even for common nouns. Understanding where and how this variation arises is therefore integral to …

Core words in semantic representation

A central question in cognitive science is how semantic information is mentally represented. Two dominant theories of semantic representation are language-based distributional semantic models (which suggest that word meaning is based on which words …

Visual and affective multimodal models of word meaning in language and mind

Demonstrates that models that incorporate visual and affective information capture human representations better than models built from text corpora

The "Small World of Words" English word association norms for over 12,000 cue words

Presents the largest English-language word association dataset in the world

Evidence for widespread thematic structure in the mental lexicon

Strong structure in weak semantic similarity: A graph based account