Contextual self-organizing map: Software for constructing semantic representations

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-88

  Zhao, Xiaowei ^a   Li, Ping ^b   Kohonen, Teuvo ^c  

^a EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contextual self organizing map; Corpus analysis; Distributed semantic representation; Sematic vectors

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; LANGUAGE; MENTAL FUNCTION; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGORITHMS; CHINA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENGLAND; LANGUAGE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79953729941     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-010-0042-z     Document Type: Article

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