We introduce the Dundee Treebank, a Universal Dependencies-style syntactic annotation layer on top of the English side of the Dundee Corpus. As the Dundee Corpus is an important resource for conducting large-scale psycholinguistic research, we aim at facilitating further research in the field by replacing automatic parses with manually assigned syntax. We report on constructing the treebank, pe...

Ontologies have been widely accepted as the most advanced knowledge representation model. This paper introduces PsychoNet, a new knowledgebase that forms the link between psycholinguistic taxonomy, existing in LIWC, and its semantic textual representation in the form of commonsense semantic ontology, represented by ConceptNet. The integration of LIWC and ConceptNet and the added functionalities...

This paper reviews current psycholinguistic and neuroimaging evidence on language processing with particular focus on the relationship between production and comprehension. In the first part, different methods of psycholinguistic research are introduced and examples for psycholinguistic models (production: Levelt et al. 1999; comprehension: Friederici 2002) are sketched. In the second part, the...

The development of a psycholinguistic measure of insider threat risk faces many challenges. Prior research suggests that psycholinguistic analysis has potential for identifying individuals who are high risks for insider/criminal activity, but testing and validation of proposed methods is hampered by lack of available data. For example, analytic tools can discriminate text samples authored by kn...

This article presents the results from an initial psycholinguistic study of patterns of morphological representation in Dene Suliné (Chipewyan), an indigenous and highly endangered language spoken in Northwestern Canada. Our investigation focused on how morphological knowledge in this polysynthetic language is affected across various levels of language attrition by employing a morphological seg...

In this paperwe comparepronoun resolution algorithmsand introduce a centering algorithm(LeftRightCentering) that adheres to the constraints and rules of centering theory and is an alternative to Brennan, Friedman, and Pollard’s (1987) algorithm. We then use the Left-Right Centering algorithm to see if two psycholinguistic claims on Cf-list ranking will actually improve pronoun resolution accura...

Psycholinguistic properties of words have been used in various approaches to Natural Language Processing tasks, such as text simplification and readability assessment. Most of these properties are subjective, involving costly and time-consuming surveys to be gathered. Recent approaches use the limited datasets of psycholinguistic properties to extend them automatically to large lexicons. Howeve...