NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 16 to 30 of 13,333 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dustin S. Stoltz; Marshall A. Taylor; Jennifer S. K. Dudley – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Distances derived from word embeddings can measure a range of gradational relations--similarity, hierarchy, entailment, and stereotype--and can be used at the document- and author-level in ways that overcome some of the limitations of weighted dictionary methods. We provide a comprehensive introduction to using word embeddings for relation…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Social Science Research, Dictionaries, Research Problems
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dymarska, Agata; Connell, Louise; Banks, Briony – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Semantic richness theory predicts that words with richer, more distinctive semantic representations should facilitate performance in a word recognition memory task. We investigated the contribution of multiple aspects of sensorimotor experience--those relating to the body, communication, food, and objects--to word recognition memory, by analyzing…
Descriptors: Memory, Semantics, Word Recognition, Sensory Experience
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Beekhuizen, Barend; Armstrong, Blair C.; Stevenson, Suzanne – Cognitive Science, 2021
Lexical ambiguity--the phenomenon of a single word having multiple, distinguishable senses--is pervasive in language. Both the degree of ambiguity of a word (roughly, its number of senses) and the relatedness of those senses have been found to have widespread effects on language acquisition and processing. Recently, distributional approaches to…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Lexicology, Semantics, English
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Xieling Chen; Di Zou; Gary Cheng; Haoran Xie – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) brings rich opportunities for understanding learners' experiences based on analyzing learner-generated content such as course reviews. Traditionally, the unstructured textual data is analyzed qualitatively via manual coding, thus failing to offer a timely understanding of the learner's experiences.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Semantics, Course Evaluation, MOOCs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Simon M. Ceh; Alexander P. Christensen; Izabela Lebuda; Mathias Benedek – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
The present study explored the public conceptualization of creativity on Twitter through co-listed hashtags associated with #creativity in a million tweets. Exploratory Graph Analysis was used to identify a network of semantic clusters, and a pre-trained language model yielded the sentiment of the underlying tweets. The semantic clusters reflect…
Descriptors: Creativity, Social Media, Telecommunications, Semantics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Moshe Poliak; Rachel Ryskin; Mika Braginsky; Edward Gibson – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Under the noisy-channel framework of language comprehension, comprehenders infer the speaker's intended meaning by integrating the perceived utterance with their knowledge of the language, the world, and the kinds of errors that can occur in communication. Previous research has shown that, when sentences are improbable under the meaning prior…
Descriptors: Russian, Ambiguity (Semantics), Sentence Structure, Inferences
Julien Dirani – ProQuest LLC, 2024
What is the nature of conceptual representations? Models of semantic memory often describe concepts as a distributed feature space. However, it remains unknown which subset of this feature space constitutes the invariant representation of a concept. In this dissertation, I investigate the nature of modality-independent representations and their…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Concept Formation, Dictionaries, Written Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Juliana Ronderos; Anny Castilla-Earls; Arturo E. Hernandez; Lisa Fitton – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study investigated the dimensionality of language in bilingual children using measures of semantics and morphosyntax in English and Spanish. Method: Participants included 112 Spanish-English bilingual children ages 4-8 years from a wide range of language abilities and dominance profiles. Using measures of semantics and morphosyntax…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English, Semantics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tanja C. Roembke; Bob McMurray – Cognitive Science, 2025
Computational and animal models suggest that the unlearning or pruning of incorrect meanings matters for word learning. However, it is currently unclear how such pruning occurs during word learning and to what extent it depends on supervised and unsupervised learning. In two experiments (N[subscript 1] = 40; N[subscript 2] = 42), adult…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Computation, Models, Accuracy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Reinertsen, Anne Beate – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
The rhizome is like the poem. The growth power of nature and the possibilities of culture simultaneously and reciprocally. It stretches from biological cell and level of particles to our universal dreams and thoughts about and with life. The rhizome as poem is thus a picture and image of the importance of context and movement, production of…
Descriptors: Poetry, Academic Language, Educational Philosophy, Theory Practice Relationship
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Li, Nan; Sun, Dongxia; Wang, Suiping – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
In natural reading, the processing of words in fixation is influenced by semantic information obtained through preview (i.e., the semantic preview effect). Previous studies have confirmed that two types of semantic information exhibit the semantic preview effect: semantic association, which is reflected by the semantic relationship between preview…
Descriptors: Chinese, Semantics, Reading Processes, Sentences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ruoyang Hu; Robert A. Jacobs – Cognitive Science, 2024
Visual working memory (VWM) refers to the temporary storage and manipulation of visual information. Although visually different, objects we view and remember can share the same higher-level category information, such as an apple, orange, and banana all being classified as fruit. We study the influence of category information on VWM, focusing on…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Short Term Memory, Visual Stimuli, Semantics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chengshi Li; Jinsheng Hu – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Individuals diagnosed with autism are often thought to face challenges in comprehensive metaphors, even for the individuals without intellectual impairment. This study is to investigate the features and mechanisms of metaphor integration in the process of metaphor comprehension in real-time and context-free situations in autism, as well as the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Figurative Language, Comprehension
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Vinicius Macuch Silva; Alexandra Lorson; Michael Franke; Chris Cummins; Bodo Winter – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study investigates how quantifiers are used strategically to serve different argumentative goals. We report two experiments on how English speakers describe the results of school exams when being instructed to frame their descriptions either as a good or bad outcome. Experiment 1 shows that participants have clear preferences for specific…
Descriptors: English, Language Usage, Bias, Semantics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Axel Langner; Lea Sophie Hain; Nicole Graulich – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
Often, eye-tracking researchers define areas of interest (AOIs) to analyze eye-tracking data. Although AOIs can be defined with systematic methods, researchers in organic chemistry education eye-tracking research often define them manually, as the semantic composition of the stimulus must be considered. Still, defining appropriate AOIs during data…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Education, Eye Movements, Educational Research
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  ...  |  889