[Corpora-List] Identifying abstract nouns

Marc Brysbaert Marc.Brysbaert at UGent.be
Tue Nov 12 20:02:44 UTC 2013


For French, also have a look here:


http://www.glennlthompson.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/DesrocherstThompson2009_BRM.pdf

Best, mb


Quoting Jeff Elmore <jelmore at lexile.com>:

> 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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