Inferring Psycholinguistic Properties of Words

A Lightweight Regression Method to Infer Psycholinguistic Properties for Brazilian Portuguese

Psycholinguistic properties of words have been used in various approaches to Natural Language Processing tasks, such as text simplification and readability assessment. Most of these properties are subjective, involving c…

Language-Independent Prediction of Psycholinguistic Properties of Words

The psycholinguistic properties of words, namely, word familiarity, age of acquisition, concreteness, and imagery, have been reported to be effective for educational natural language-processing tasks. Previous studies on…

Collecting and Exploring Everyday Language for Predicting Psycholinguistic Properties of Words

Exploring language usage through frequency analysis in large corpora is a defining feature in most recent work in corpus and computational linguistics. From a psycholinguistic perspective, however, the corpora used in th…

Predicting Emotional Word Ratings using Distributional Representations and Signed Clustering

Inferring the emotional content of words is important for text-based sentiment analysis, dialogue systems and psycholinguistics, but word ratings are expensive to collect at scale and across languages or domains. We deve…

Psycholinguistically Motivated Computational Models on the Organization and Processing of Morphologically Complex Words