[Corpora-List] Identifying abstract nouns

Jeff Elmore jelmore at lexile.com
Tue Nov 12 19:30:42 UTC 2013


Here is a study by Brysbaert and Kuperman that produced concreteness
ratings for 40,000 English lemmas using mechanical turk:

http://crr.ugent.be/archives/1330

It's an extension of previous concreteness work by Paivio and others.

Ratings are freely available for non-commercial purposes and can be
licensed at a low cost for commercial applications.


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Alan Hogue <eahogue at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Corpora List,
>
> I need to distinguish between concrete and abstract nouns in a French
> corpus. Does anyone know of either a lexicon that classifies nouns on this
> basis, or of any algorithms/software which can classify them automatically?
> Resources for French are preferred but those for other languages may be
> helpful as well.
>
> Thank you!
> Alan Hogue
>
>
>
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