Showing papers on "Semantic similarity published in 1969"
TL;DR: Three experiments were performed to extend the previous finding that number of cate-gories in organized, categorized lists determines the number of words recalled and introduce the notion of a postrecognition retrieval check.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Verbs of judging: An Exercise in Semantic Description is presented as an exercise in semantic description, which is an extension of the Verbs-of-judging problem.
Abstract: (1969). Verbs of judging: An exercise in semantic description. Paper in Linguistics: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 91-117.
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07 May 1969TL;DR: A general data structure for a semantic memory is presented, and a definition of "analogy" between items of semantic information is given, and an inductive process in which general laws are formulated and verified on the basis of observations of individual cases is constructed.
Abstract: In this paper w. present a general data structure for a semantic memory, and we give a definition of "analogy" between items of semantic information. We then construct an inductive process in which general laws are formulated and verified on the basis of observations of individual cases.
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TL;DR: This paper applied the same procedure to the study of acoustic similarity and found no significant effect was found on the long-term retention of paired associates, while Baddeley & Dale (1966) used a classical A-B, A′-C interference paradigm.
Abstract: Baddeley & Dale (1966) using a classical A-B, A′-C interference paradigm showed an adverse effect of semantic similarity on the long-term retention of paired associates. The present study applied the same procedure to the study of acoustic similarity. No significant effect was found.
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01 Sep 1969
TL;DR: The theory of generative semantics is an outgrowth of, and reaction to, Chomsky's 1965 theory of transformational linguistics, and summaries of several studies and a lengthy bibliogrpahy of works are provided which when consulted will hopefully give some feeling for what is being attempted.
Abstract: The theory of generative semantics, to be discussed in section II, is an outgrowth of, and reaction to, Chomsky's 1965 theory of transformational linguistics. It is a radical theory which deals with a very great range of problems with very abstract methods. Trose working in this paradigm hold that there is a linguistic level reflecting conceptual or semantic structure which is directly convertible into surface syntax by a single set of garden-variety transformations, with no O significant intermediary level, that is, no deep structure". These of us working in generative semantics believe that methods substantially those long familiar in linguistics can achieve very absract , very general results which treat semantics in a more serious and enlightening way than ever before. I do not, I think, support this very strong claim very well in section II, but I provide summaries of several studies and a lengthy bibliogrpahy of works which when consulted will hopefully give some feeling for what is being attempted, I think not without results.
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01 Sep 1969
TL;DR: The use of an on-line system to do word-sense ambiguity resolution and content analysis of English text paragraphs, using a system of semantic analysis programmed in Q32 LISP 1.5 is described.
Abstract: This paper describes the use of an on-line system to do word-sense ambiguity resolution and content analysis of English text paragraphs, using a system of semantic analysis programmed in Q32 LISP 1.5. The system of semantic analysis comprised dictionary codings for the text words, coded forms of permitted message, and rules producing message forms in combination on the basis of a criterion of semantic closeness. All these can be expressed within a single system of rules of phrase-structure form. In certain circumstances the system is able to enlarge its own dictionary in a real-time mode on the basis of information gained from the actual texts analysed. An interpretation of the system in terms of "meaningfulness" is suggested.