Currently, there is little agreement as to how Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems
should be evaluated, with a particularly high degree of variation in the way that human …

The word frequency effect refers to the observation that high-frequency words are processed
more efficiently than low-frequency words. Although the effect was first described over 80 …

Based on an analysis of the literature and a large scale crowdsourcing experiment, we
estimate that an average 20-year-old native speaker of American English knows 42,000 …

Making sense of the world around us depends upon selectively retrieving information
relevant to our current goal or context. However, it is unclear whether selective semantic …

Eye-tracking is quickly becoming a valuable tool in applied linguistics research as it
provides a'real-time', direct measure of cognitive processing effort. This book provides a …

Composing sentence meaning is easier for predictable words than for unpredictable words.
Are predictable words genuinely predicted, or simply more plausible and therefore easier to …

We present word prevalence data for 61,858 English words. Word prevalence refers to the
number of people who know the word. The measure was obtained on the basis of an online …

In comparison with personality taxonomic research, there has been much less advancement
toward establishing an integrative taxonomy of psychological situation characteristics …

This study focused on the mechanisms underlying incidental second language (L2)
vocabulary acquisition prior to formal instruction. We designed a cross‐sectional study to …

We use the results of a large online experiment on word knowledge in Dutch to investigate
variables influencing vocabulary size in a large population and to examine the effect of word …