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Predicting Word Concreteness and Imagery

Jean Charbonnier, Christian Wartena


Abstract
Concreteness of words has been studied extensively in psycholinguistic literature. A number of datasets have been created with average values for perceived concreteness of words. We show that we can train a regression model on these data, using word embeddings and morphological features, that can predict these concreteness values with high accuracy. We evaluate the model on 7 publicly available datasets. Only for a few small subsets of these datasets prediction of concreteness values are found in the literature. Our results clearly outperform the reported results for these datasets.
Anthology ID:
W19-0415
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers
Month:
May
Year:
2019
Address:
Gothenburg, Sweden
Editors:
Simon Dobnik, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Vera Demberg
Venue:
IWCS
SIG:
SIGSEM
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
176–187
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-0415
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-0415
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Cite (ACL):
Jean Charbonnier and Christian Wartena. 2019. Predicting Word Concreteness and Imagery. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers, pages 176–187, Gothenburg, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Predicting Word Concreteness and Imagery (Charbonnier & Wartena, IWCS 2019)
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