Traditional cognitive vulnerability-stress models regarding the etiology of depression emphasize the content of the depressed individual's thoughts. One important cognitive content index, explanatory style, represents the habitual way that individuals assign causes to events that occur in their lives. A more contemporary model, however, emphasizes the cognitive process by which these attributio...

Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika 2022 ('Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language 2022') contains a modern linguistic description multifaceted and complex reality language based on use as reflected in diverse resources, primarily corpora. A total 489 dictionary entries introduced by single-word headwords offers wholesome systematic semantic, grammatical, pragmatic other characteristics m...

In 2 studies mothers read wordless storybooks to their preschool-aged children; narratives were analyzed for mental state language. Children's theory-of-mind understanding (ToM) was concurrently assessed. In Study 1, children's (N=30; M age 3 years 9 months) ToM task performance was significantly correlated with mothers' explanatory, causal, and contrastive talk about cognition, but not with mo...

We present a novel evolutionary model for knowledge discovery from texts (KDTs), which deals with issues concerning shallow text representation and processing for mining purposes in an integrated way. Its aims is to look for novel and interesting explanatory knowledge across text documents. The approach uses natural language technology and genetic algorithms to produce explanatory novel hypothe...

The paper reports the on-going research for applying psycholinguistic resources to building and extending semantic networks. We survey different kinds of information that can be extracted from a Word Association Thesaurus (WAT), a resource representing the results of a large-scaled free association test. In addition, we give a comparison of WAT and other language resources (e.g. text corpora, e...