How are Words Related ?

How many words are there?

The commonsensical assumption that any language has only finitely many words is shown to be false by a combination of formal and empirical arguments. Zipf's Law and related formulas are investigated and a more complex model is offered.

How are words reduced in spontaneous speech?

Words are reduced in spontaneous speech. If reductions are constrained by functional (i.e., perception and production) constraints, they should not be arbitrary. This hypothesis was tested by examing the pronunciations of highto mid-frequency words in a Dutch and a German spontaneous speech corpus. In logistic-regression models the "reduction likelihood" of a phoneme was predicted by fixed-effe...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

How words can tell what actions are doing∗ [Short Paper]

This paper describes an approach to use embedded descriptions of agent actions in task ontologies and agent communication messages compliant to FIPA ACL [4, 5]. Ontological terms denoting actions are extended with semantical descriptive decorations in such a way that an agent requested to perform a well defined action is able to extract the formal description of the activity bound to this actio...

How brand names are special: brands, words, and hemispheres.

Previous research has consistently shown differences between the processing of proper names and of common nouns, leading to the belief that proper names possess a special neuropsychological status. We investigate the category of brand names and suggest that brand names also have a special neuropsychological status, but one which is different from proper names. The findings suggest that the hemi...