Measuring word meaning in context

K Erk, D McCarthy, N Gaylord - Computational Linguistics, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
… scales rather than binary ratings, we measure agreement in terms of correlation. Because
… 2 WSbest task we adopt the standard wsd measure of average pairwise agreement, and for r…

Semantic diversity: A measure of semantic ambiguity based on variability in the contextual usage of words

P Hoffman, MA Lambon Ralph, TT Rogers - Behavior research methods, 2013 - Springer
measure contextual diversity, and they demonstrated that it is a better predictor of word
recognition speed than is log word … reflect the context-dependent variation in word meaning that …

Learning words from context

WE Nagy, PA Herman, RC Anderson - Reading research quarterly, 1985 - JSTOR
… the meanings of new words from context. However, the percentage of word meanings that
can be derived from context … test for measuring degrees of knowledge of word meanings was …

Measuring word significance using distributed representations of words

AMJ Schakel, BJ Wilson - arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02297, 2015 - arxiv.org
… According to this thesis, a word that is consistently used in a similar context will be … of word
vector length to measure word significance, we assign part-ofspeech (POS) tags to each word

Learning word meanings from context during normal reading

WE Nagy, RC Anderson… - American educational …, 1987 - journals.sagepub.com
Word properties investigated included length, … of contextual support for each word,
readability as measured by standard formulas, and several measures of density of difficult words. …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring distributional similarity in context

G Dinu, M Lapata - Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on …, 2010 - aclanthology.org
… similarity out of context. In his paper we propose a probabilistic framework for measuring
similarity in context. Central to our approach is the intuition that word meaning is represented as …

The nature and measurement of meaning.

CE Osgood - Psychological bulletin, 1952 - psycnet.apa.org
… precisely the same contexts, and if our measuring instrument includes a sufficient number
of dimensions of the semantic space, then a significant difference should appear on at least …

Measuring Meaning: Word Meaning and Meaning Change

K Coventry, H Gudde - 2024 - researchsquare.com
… of a means of measuring meaning on a moment-by-moment basis. Here we present a novel
method for measuring meaning over … as a function of the context in which a word is uttered3. …

Contextual diversity, not word frequency, determines word-naming and lexical decision times

JS Adelman, GDA Brown… - Psychological …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
… , confounded with contextual diversity, the number of contexts in which a word has … measure
of contextual diversity, word-frequency effects were eliminated when effects of contextual

Reading comprehension: A conceptual framework from word meaning to text meaning

C Perfetti, SM Adlof - Measuring up: Advances in how we assess …, 2012 - books.google.com
… have controlled for knowledge of word meanings. Our view is that word meanings provide an
… ” require the selection of word meanings that are appropriate for a given context. What this …