Lev<div><br></div><div>the cognitive psychology literature on semantic networks includes</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Collins, A.M., & Quillian, M.R. (1969). Retrieval Time from Semantic Memory. <i>Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior</i>, 8, 240-247. </li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">
Collins, A.M., & Loftus, E.F. (1975). A Spreading Activation Theory of Semantic Processing. <i>Psychological Review</i>, 82, 407-428. </li></ul><div>These have MANY, MANY successors and predecessors, going through Jung back to Wihelm Wundt. </div>
<div><br></div><div>- I don't work much in this area, but there is a well-known piece of cautionary advice, which is that the types</div><div>of associations you get can depend in subtle ways on fine details of how you do the experiment, and that</div>
<div>it is therefore difficult to draw solid conclusions about what the experiments really mean. You should really</div><div>ask your Russian collaborators precisely what they are trying to show. Large scale data collection is a </div>
<div>great idea, but be aware of the risk of collecting a large amount of worthless data, and pilot anything</div><div>you do very carefully on a small scale before you dive into the large-scale work. </div><div><br></div>
<div>If you can find an accessible version of </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><table summary="Publications List" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;border-collapse:collapse">
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<br>Schulte im Walde, S., <strong>Melinger, A.</strong>, Roth, M., & Weber, A. (2008). An Empirical Characterisation of Response Types in German Association Norms. <em>Research on Language and Computation</em>, 6(2), 205-238.<br>
<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div>I'm sure it will be a good start as a more modern thing. Or Steyvers, Shiffrin and Nelson 2004, which is </div><div>online at <a href="http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/research.htm">http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/research.htm</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Two sentence summary: talk to the cognitive psychologists as well as the computational linguists.They've</div><div>been all over this topic since the 19th century.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Lev Kundin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lev.kundin@gmail.com" target="_blank">lev.kundin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear corpora list members,<br>
<br>
Thank you very much for all replies - I will be having a look at all<br>
the resources that you have kindly referenced very shortly and maybe<br>
will be getting back to you with some further questions. I appreciate<br>
your commitment - it's always very nice to get back to corpora list<br>
and find everyone being so helpful, and replying very promptly.<br>
<br>
However, having scanned your responses and read my message again, I<br>
realised that I did not express myself clearly. By associative<br>
experiments and word associations I meant those experiments when a<br>
respondent is given a number of words in one language (or several? -<br>
but that's something I haven't heard of so far, hence asking) and they<br>
are supposed to put down their first association with each of the<br>
words. Those pairs (stimulus-reaction) are then being analysed),<br>
semantic networks bearing the strength of each association are<br>
constructed and drawn conclusions upon etc. That's my vague<br>
understanding of the field, I am only embarking on (or rather planning<br>
to do) research in this field and would like to find references on<br>
current/previous achievements in the area. I hope this clarifies what<br>
I am looking for and maybe you can give me more specific hints. I am<br>
sorry if some of you already did get me right and pointed out some<br>
highly relevant materials - I haven't had a chance to have a look<br>
through the references, but will definitely do so shortly.<br>
<br>
I would also like to give some background, because both of my<br>
enquiries sound a bit 'out of the blue'. I am a computer scientist,<br>
did my BA in Moscow, then went to Oxford for an MSc in Computer<br>
Science last year where I took several CL-related courses (this is my<br>
professional hobby, so to say) and did a final project under<br>
supervision of Steve Clark (Oxford Comlab) and Pete Whitelock (OUP)<br>
called 'Bilingual Corpus Exploratory Workbench'. The project was about<br>
trying to analyse the nature of bilingual equivalence and creating a<br>
tool for lexicographers to assist them in putting together bilingual<br>
dictionaries by suggesting different translations for stem words<br>
entered. I then wanted to do a DPhil in Oxford, but didn't find any<br>
funding, so had to get back to work (now in UK). I am still thinking<br>
back to Computational Linguistics though, because that's one of the<br>
few areas in my profession that really amuses me.<br>
<br>
Having got in touch with a researcher back in Russia recently, I am<br>
now planning to do a part-time research work under his supervision in<br>
the field that I attempted to describe above. Their lab has previously<br>
done such experiments in Russian and several other languages I<br>
believe. My idea and potential topic is to firstly try and create an<br>
internet-based multilingual version of such experiment to bring it to<br>
a much larger scale and collect some more or less significant volumes<br>
of data. Secondly, I am supposed to come up with new methods/forms of<br>
such experiments, and, more importantly, new ways of analysing their<br>
results. That's it in a nutshell.<br>
<br>
Once again, I would appreciate any advice on all above. Sorry it was a<br>
lengthy email, but I wanted to try and get it as clear as I could at<br>
this point. If anyone who is reading this feels they might be<br>
interested in any sort of collaboration regarding my future research,<br>
I would definitely be keen on discussing that.<br>
<br>
Thanks again to everyone.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Lev.<br>
<br>
2009/8/17 Lev Kundin <<a href="mailto:lev.kundin@gmail.com" target="_blank">lev.kundin@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div>> Dear all,<br>
><br>
> I would appreciate if someone could point me into the direction of<br>
> some research/experiments(off/on-line)/articles/any other materials in<br>
> the area of gathering word associations, various methods of analysing<br>
> them and/or comparative analysis of word associations among different<br>
> languages. Any help will be highly appreciated, including corrections<br>
> on the terminology of this research area that I have hopefully vaguely<br>
> identified.<br>
><br>
> Thank you very much in advance.<br>
><br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Lev.<br>
><br>
<br>
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