Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography
Church & Hanks, 1990, Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography (Computational Linguistics)
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Abstract
- What does Church and Hanks’s paper propose?An objective measure, the association ratio, based on mutual information, for estimating word association norms directly from corpora, making norms possible for tens of thousands of words rather than a few hundred.
- Church & Hanks, 1990, Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography (Computational Linguistics), Abstract, p. 22
- What is a word association norm in psycholinguistics, and why is the standard way of measuring it a problem?The degree to which one word primes another (people respond faster to nurse after doctor). Measuring it by testing a few thousand subjects on a few hundred words is costly and unreliable.
- Church & Hanks, 1990, Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography (Computational Linguistics), Abstract, p. 22
Source
- Kenneth Ward Church and Patrick Hanks. 1990. Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography. In Computational Linguistics, pp. 22–29. https://aclanthology.org/J90-1003/