core words

Are the most frequent words the most useful? Investigating core vocabulary in reading

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 text coverage and comprehension may not be straightforward -- some words may …

Word prediction is more than just predictability: An investigation of core vocabulary

What words are central in our semantic representations? In this experiment, we compared the core vocabulary derived from different association-based and language-based distributional models of semantic representation. Our question was: what kinds of …