Posts tagged with “distributional semantics”

New preprint: "Understanding the role of linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition"

I have recently submitted a paper based on some work I have been doing at my job at the Embodied Cognition Lab at Lancaster University. In it, we look at a large set of linguistic distributional models commonly used in cognitive psychology, evaluating each on a benchmark behavioural dataset.

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New preprint: "Linguistic Distributional Knowledge and Sensorimotor Grounding both Contribute to Semantic Category Production"

My colleagues Briony Banks, Louise Connell and I recently submitted a paper reporting research we’ve been doing at Lancaster University over the last year.

Needless to say, the Covid-19 lockdowns in the UK have been a substantial impediment to this work, so it’s really good to see it finally complete.

A figure taken from the paper preprint. The computational model has two components, "linguistic" and "sensorimotor". The linguistic component is illustrated by colour spreading through a network of connected concepts ("animal", "husbandry", "horse", "cow", etc.). The sensorimotor component is illustrated with bubbles of colour growing and popping, creating new circles as they meet new points in the space ("animal", "cat", "rain", etc.). In the centre, the list of all concepts reached in either component are listed.

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New paper in Cognitive Science: "Linguistic Distributional Knowledge and Sensorimotor Grounding both Contribute to Semantic Category Production"

A paper on which I am joint-first author, a preprint of which I mentioned here previously, has just been published in Cognitive Science.

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If you don’t have access to Cognitive Science, you can get the paper from me.

New paper in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience: Understanding the role of linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition

A paper on which I am joint-first author, which I previously posted here as a preprint, has just (after a long time!) been published in the journal Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.

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It should be open-access, but if for some reason you can’t see it properly there, I can give you a copy.