An empirical characterisation of response types in German association norms

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 205-238

  Schulte Im Walde, Sabine ^a   Melinger, Alissa ^b   Roth, Michael ^c   Weber, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association norms; Corpus co occurrence; Data intensive semantics; Distributional features; Lexical resources; Semantic associates; Semantic relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 55649117943     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-008-9048-4     Document Type: Article

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