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Context-sensitive word frequency: A context constructivist account of contextual diversity and word frequency effects

The diversity of contexts in which a word occurred, operationalized as CD, better accounts for some sources of variance in measures of lexical processing previously attributed to token word frequency (WF), a result that has been found in research …

Information-theoretic and machine learning methods for semantic categorization

Of the incredible amount of structure in the world, a small subset is privileged enough to be carved into semantic categories, i.e., partitions that are encoded and transmitted via language. What makes a useful partitioning? Why do different cultures …