Education 2.0: Psycholinguistic Analysis

Therapy language analysis using automatically generated psycholinguistic norms

Lexical norms, normative and usually numeric, ratings of word meaning are popular tools in research domains relating to human expression and perception of language, especially with regards to emotion. In this paper we are proposing an algorithm of psycholinguistic norm expansion capable of generating high quality norms representing aspects of language beyond emotion, including language concrete...

Online Social Capital: Mood, Topical and Psycholinguistic Analysis

Social media provides rich sources of personal information and community interaction which can be linked to aspect of mental health. In this paper we investigate manifest properties of textual messages, including latent topics, psycholinguistic features, and authors’ mood, of a large corpus of blog posts, to analyze the aspect of social capital in social media communities. Using data collected ...

Topic Model Analysis of Metaphor Frequency for Psycholinguistic Stimuli

Psycholinguistic studies of metaphor processing must control their stimuli not just for word frequency but also for the frequency with which a term is used metaphorically. Thus, we consider the task of metaphor frequency estimation, which predicts how often target words will be used metaphorically. We develop metaphor classifiers which represent metaphorical domains through Latent Dirichlet All...

Psycholinguistic studies of rendaku

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Psycholinguistic Studies of Entrenchment