19.324, Qs: English Native Speakers Needed for Experiment

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Subject: 19.324, Qs: English Native Speakers Needed for Experiment

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Date: 27-Jan-2008
From: Lukas Michelbacher < michells at ims.uni-stuttgart.de >
Subject: English Native Speakers Needed for Experiment

 

	
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:37:10
From: Lukas Michelbacher [michells at ims.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: English Native Speakers Needed for Experiment
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I am currently working on my thesis ('Diplomarbeit') at Stuttgart
University. In the course of my work, I am conducting an experiment for
which I require native speakers of English. The experiment is available
online and the task is to type in words depending on the stimuli on the
screen. It takes about 35 minutes to complete and there is a prize drawing
amongst all participants.

The goal of the experiment is to evaluate syntagmatic word associations
extracted from corpus data against human associations. The work focuses on
adjacent two-word collocations. Hence, the experiment differs from a pure
Free Association task in that it is more restrictive regarding possible
answers.

The experiment can be reached via

http://www.language-experiments.org

Please scroll down to 'Word Associations'. Thank you for your assistance

Lukas Michelbacher
michells at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Theoretical Computational Linguistics
Institute for Natural Language Processing
Stuttgart University 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





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