[Corpora-List] a worldwide word association test

[Marc Brysbaert]

Dear all,

 

Gert Storms and Simon De Deyne are running a worldwide word association test
in English. Thus far they have over 1.25 million responses, but they require
many more in order to have enough spontaneously produced associates to all
known English words. The data will be made available to all researchers,
just like the Florida norms, so that we can use them for our studies and
include them in our computational models. Would it be possible to forward
the call to your colleagues and students? The task itself only takes 5
minutes and involves giving associates to a few target words.

 

Many thanks in advance, marc brysbaert

 

From: Gerrit Storms [mailto:Gert.Storms at ppw.kuleuven.be] 
Sent: 15 February 2012 10:55
To: Marc Brysbaert
Subject: word associations

 

Dear Marc,

 

Can I ask you a little favor?

Over the past few months, we have been trying to set up a scientific study
that is important for many researchers interested in words, word meaning,
semantics, and cognitive science in general.  It is a huge word association
project, in which people are asked to participate in a small task that
doesn't last longer than 5 minutes. Our goal is to build a global word
association network that contains connections between about 40.000 words,
the size of the lexicon of an average adult. Setting up such a network might
teach us a lot about semantic memory, how it develops, and maybe also about
how it can deteriorate (like in Alzheimer's disease). Most people enjoy
doing the task, but we need thousands of participants to succeed. Up till
today, we found about 40,000 participants willing to do the little task, but
we need more responses. That is why we address you.  Would it be possible to
forward this call for participation to graduate and undergraduate students
who are fluent in English?

 

The task can be found at

 

http://www.smallworldofwords.com

 

Of course the network will be freely available to all interested language
researchers when it becomes substantial enough.

 

We thank you in advance.

 

If you want more information, don't hesitate to contact me.

 

With kind regards,

 

Prof. G. Storms and Dr. S. De Deyne

Department of Psychology

University of Leuven

Tiensestraat 102

3000 Leuven

Belgium

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