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Ouyang, Long; Boroditsky, Lera; Frank, Michael C. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Computational models have shown that purely statistical knowledge about words' linguistic contexts is sufficient to learn many properties of words, including syntactic and semantic category. For example, models can infer that "postman" and "mailman" are semantically similar because they have quantitatively similar patterns of…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Computational Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics
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Medimorec, Srdan; Pavlik, Philip I., Jr.; Olney, Andrew; Graesser, Arthur C.; Risko, Evan F. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Recent studies have used Coh-Metrix, an automated text analyzer, to assess differences in language characteristics across different genres and academic disciplines (Graesser, McNamara, & Kulikowich, 2011; McNamara, Graesser, McCarthy, & Cai, 2014). Coh-Metrix analyzes text on many constructs at different levels, including Word Concreteness…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Lecture Method, Oral Language, Language Usage